Comments on: The Dimensional Door http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/16/dimensional-door/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Claire (RuthClaire Weintraub) http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/16/dimensional-door/comment-page-1/#comment-347120 Claire (RuthClaire Weintraub) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:24:17 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=3759#comment-347120 I agree with Rachel that the immediate benefit is *No CARS* and confess that a similar fantasy flits, not infrequently, across my brain: Walk into an elevator in a building in NYC, press a button, get out in Paris or Kyoto, or maybe Alma Ata? But for some reason I never lose an intuitive sense of distance, in the fantasy. It's that Beam Me Up thing, I guess, that one imagines: teleporting, projecting oneself into a parallel society? Right now (2:30 am EDT) it's tomorrow afternoon in Japan, and my cousin has probably just finished her lunch. In any case, the complexity of a Dimensional Door's nicely intriguing. Thanks! I agree with Rachel that the immediate benefit is *No CARS* and confess that a similar fantasy flits, not infrequently, across my brain: Walk into an elevator in a building in NYC, press a button, get out in Paris or Kyoto, or maybe Alma Ata?

But for some reason I never lose an intuitive sense of distance, in the fantasy. It’s that Beam Me Up thing, I guess, that one imagines: teleporting, projecting oneself into a parallel society? Right now (2:30 am EDT) it’s tomorrow afternoon in Japan, and my cousin has probably just finished her lunch.

In any case, the complexity of a Dimensional Door’s nicely intriguing. Thanks!

]]> By: Rachel Harris http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/16/dimensional-door/comment-page-1/#comment-274349 Rachel Harris Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:10:38 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=3759#comment-274349 Interesting Owen, The biggest advantage that I can see is the disappearance of the car. I feel every day more encroached upon by those little and big metal boxes. Last week Eric saw a pedestrian hit right at our corner and every time we go out the door I am afraid for my two girls. So, ANYTHING that could possibly make them go away sounds good to me. Your idea does have one obvious flaw tough as far as I can see. There would no longer be distances in the world or in the universe. There would be no such thing as 'remote' or 'wild' there would be no part of our planet that people would leave alone. There would be swarms of us everywhere!! I think that the world is much better of with some places where we just can't get to. Maybe I am selfish. Dunno. Rachel Interesting Owen,
The biggest advantage that I can see is the disappearance of the car. I feel every day more encroached upon by those little and big metal boxes. Last week Eric saw a pedestrian hit right at our corner and every time we go out the door I am afraid for my two girls. So, ANYTHING that could possibly make them go away sounds good to me. Your idea does have one obvious flaw tough as far as I can see. There would no longer be distances in the world or in the universe. There would be no such thing as ‘remote’ or ‘wild’ there would be no part of our planet that people would leave alone. There would be swarms of us everywhere!! I think that the world is much better of with some places where we just can’t get to. Maybe I am selfish. Dunno.

Rachel

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