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A firel is raging in the upper floors of a skyscraper. But the building is fitted with a series of funpark-style funnel slides (flumes) at it's core. Each slide services several floors and is completely fire-proof. The initial gradient is so sheer that people reach tremendous speeds on the way down but are then safely slowed down by a soft spiralling curve before finally being deposited in a reinforced subteranean room where survivors can ascertain whether it's safe or not to go up onto the street. Some electronic timing system might be required to avoid collisions.
Whataloadof, Jan 20 2007
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This sounds like it might work. Yes, avoiding collisions would be a problem. There won't be enough room in the building to have a separate tunnel for every floor, so you will have hundreds of people trying to jump into the same tunnel on different floors at the same time. There might be a way to solve this though.
Making it fireproof might also be a problem. If people can get into it on every floor, then the fire/smoke might also. "Fireproof" stairways have the same problem.
I wonder how many people would try to sneak in to it just for for a thrill.
The idea sounds interesting and applicable.
It is also important to teach people how to use it correctly and efficiently.