{"id":188,"date":"2005-06-24T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/towering-inferno-escape-pods\/"},"modified":"2005-06-24T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:42:19","slug":"towering-inferno-escape-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/towering-inferno-escape-pods\/","title":{"rendered":"Towering inferno escape pods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/inferno_pods.JPG\" width=\"235\" height=\"344\" alt=\"inferno pods\" \/><br \/>\nA Russian aerospace design firm has a new idea for escaping a burning building. From the Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4102383\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is to create a cheap, inflatable structure that can be compressed into a backpack, like a parachute. The pod is designed with an inflatable tube around its edges, which should cause it to bounce off the walls of a building. And the final version will be made from some, as yet unspecified, fire-retardant material. As a bonus, and unlike a parachute, it will operate safely from altitudes of five metres and above\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich would make it suitable even for the top floors of houses.<br \/>\nIn an emergency, someone wishing to leave in a hurry would strap on the backpack and jump, pulling a ring as he did so. The pod would inflate, surround him instantly and bear him gently to the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Future news story:<br \/>\n<strong>Man&#8217;s goes on fire alarm pulling binge around the city.<\/strong><br \/>\nMan: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to live in a world where it would rain 30-foot bouncing boobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian aerospace design firm has a new idea for escaping a burning building. From the Economist article: The idea is to create a cheap, inflatable structure that can be compressed into a backpack, like a parachute. The pod is designed with an inflatable tube around its edges, which should cause it to bounce off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}