(Credit Photo: Minna Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Escalator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Escalator. Show all posts
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Stairs Without Legs
May 17, 2017
Escalator Pile-Up
There was a huge double line of people coming down the escalator heading to the trains.
Everything is moving swiftly like clockwork.
Decend, decend, decend...step off and move to the right or left track for the next train.
But then...
One person, steps off and instead of moving left or right, they stop to try and figure out which side their train is coming from.
So all the people behind them coming down and off the escalator are blocked by the one "bumbling idiot" and they start stumbling into him with no place to go, and more and more people coming down end up in the human pile.
You could almost hear the people getting to the end of the escalator yelling: "Get out of the way!"
It was crazy and sort of hilarious--as no one was hurt, but the system isn't built to give a person pause at the bottom.
The people just keep coming and coming--where's the emergency break? :-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 6, 2017
Respect The Disabled
People were switching trains in downtown D.C.
Getting off from one train and going up the escalator to catch another.
Every night people literally race up the escalator to catch their next ride.
Some pushing their way on past the laggards.
Others yelling for the people in front to "move it!"
Tonight, there was someone riding up the escalator on a wheelchair and holding unto to both sides to keep the chair from tipping over or literally rolling down backwards.
(Usually the people in wheelchairs take the elevator and this was the first time I saw someone on the escalator riding it like this.)
So while I was expecting the people to start acting up on the escalator, running for the train on the platform.
Instead, when they got to the wheelchair, they stopped and silently rode up with deep respect for the person holding himself steady.
There wasn't a peep or a shove.
I could see people missing their train, but they were thankful for their health and respectful of the man in the wheelchair.
Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised and proud that there is still some human decency out there and that is cause for hope. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 3, 2015
Escalator To Another Time And Place
Does it even look like an escalator anymore--all opened up with it guts hanging out like this.
Anyway after a while, the days turn into weeks, and the weeks into months, and this escalator is still b~r~o~k~e~n!
After a while, you almost start to think that this escalator was never a working one and was always broken, just like this...that time has essentially passed this one by and given up here.
But lo and behold, I was reminded by a conversation today with a good friend that according to quantum physics, time is not linear, but instead all exists simultaneously across the time-space continuum (something like parallel universes).
It was funny, because honestly, I have been thinking this for years (or maybe it was just yesterday or tomorrow) that time is really just an illusion...all time is one. And it's just that our mortal minds need to experience it sequentially.
However to G-d, there is no time or space...it's all just one, and he is one and perfect.
For us though, at least in this universe, this cruddy escalator continues to be out of service, but perhaps in another one, it will be working again...hope, indeed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
September 28, 2010
What's Next an Escalator to Heaven?
Introducing the Levytator—or escalator replacement.
It is a creation of Jack Levy, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of London.
Rather than just go straight up and down, this baby can go any which way—and even around curves.
Potentially a new mode of inner city transportation?
Take the Levytator to the gym and spend another half an hour on the treadmill!
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