Scrappy Startups

9 responses to “Scrappy Startups”

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Oct 30, 2011 at 6:12 am

   I was wondering when you would show us another toilet!
   Cell dive in toilet!
   Toilet flight!
   And a refrigerator and a…what is that large thing, is that some type of lab freezer? Oh, I see a small freezer on top of the refrigerator. This room is large enough for a small kitchen so where is the sink? You need to be able to heat-up your meal so where is the microwave oven? What about the coffeemaker? You have to have coffee to start the day!

   All joking aside, the room was used quite efficiently!

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Oct 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm

   Fridge isn’t close enough to the toilet. You’d have to get up to have a snack! I imagine the chair is there so that someone can ready you a story while you are doing your business?? I imagine a new startup company "Stalls with Flavor"….a fridge with every commode. Gives new meaning to the Charmin gingle, "enjoy the move." Now if they can just run that fridge with a solar panel on the roof, they could appeal to the conservationists.

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   P^2 – Paul

   Oct 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm

   That "fridge" is a low-temp (-30C) freezer. Your snack would be Häagen-Dazs, and would be too hard to eat. That chest freezer is an ultra-low temp (-80C) freezer. They draw 10-20 kWh/day. Even in sunny California you’ll need a solar array around 40 square meters in size for that freezer alone, plus another 40 square meters to run the air conditioner to get rid of its waste heat.

   I bet that restroom is nice and toasty though.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 30, 2011 at 3:38 pm

   Right you are! There is a sign on the door: "Don’t close door" since the room would overheat otherwise….

   Again the toilet use case is relegated to a distant afterthought.

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimosa0] & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/drdad] – good recall… and this image just beckons all kinds of strange visuals

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5. 

   solerena

   Oct 30, 2011 at 4:10 pm

   😀 are there any women? Probably not:)

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6. 

   TrombaMarina

   Oct 30, 2011 at 5:53 pm

   +1 out-of-the-box thinking
   -1 social skills

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7. 

   jurvetson

   Nov 2, 2011 at 2:42 am

   exhibit B, men’s room @ Google and mil spec extraction

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8. 

   chemical business

   Nov 2, 2011 at 6:06 pm

   Heh, capital efficiency is a smart idea in any economy, but especially this one.

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9. 

   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Jan 18, 2012 at 7:41 pm

   This is from Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield, one of our astronauts.
   Space toilet
   twitpic.com/86qc76

   You can find him here:
   twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield
   http://www.facebook.com/pages/Col-Chris-Hadfield/151680104849735
   En français: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cmdt-Chris-Hadfield/12907312714560...

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