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HeartFire
09-09-2014, 05:48
http://abc13.com/news/camper-rescued-after-sleepwalking-off-cliff/299171/

illabelle
09-09-2014, 07:35
Wow! If you have a history of sleepwalking, don't camp near cliffs. If that's unavoidable, tie yourself to your tent, your pack, a tree, or something. Glad he survived.

rocketsocks
09-09-2014, 08:00
Wow! If you have a history of sleepwalking, don't camp near cliffs. If that's unavoidable, tie yourself to your tent, your pack, a tree, or something. Glad he survived.
Right...I'm just shakin' my head. Glad he made it, bet he won't do that again.

squeezebox
09-09-2014, 11:30
A lot of nursing homes use a wheelchair alarm. A small unit about 2x2x1" with a pin in it. A string on a clip attached to the person and tied into the pin, when the person moves past the range of the string the pin gets pulled the alarm goes off. Would probably wake the person or someone nearby.

Old Hiker
09-09-2014, 12:25
*sigh* Another thing to worry about. I sleep walk sometimes. I don't remember any cliffs, though.

Heartfire, I have one of your SoLong 6 tents - any way to after market a lock on the zippers? :)

saltysack
09-09-2014, 13:27
*sigh* Another thing to worry about. I sleep walk sometimes. I don't remember any cliffs, though.

Heartfire, I have one of your SoLong 6 tents - any way to after market a lock on the zippers? :)

Haa I'm getting ready to buy one from outdoor76 in franklin... Forget seam seal add locks!


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Pedaling Fool
09-09-2014, 14:07
Everytime I hear stories such as this I think of the idea in physics that anything that can happen will happen in a vast universe.
http://tucson.com/news/science/anything-you-can-imagine-happening-in-our-vast-universe-already/article_ee32f7d4-e8d2-5363-99ad-fdf8472484ef.html

Excerpt:

"It’s a big universe — billions of galaxies each containing billions of stars, and all of it more than 13.8 billion years old.

“Every astronomical event that is not impossible must occur,” said astronomer Tom Matheson.

That knowledge makes the problem Matheson and three colleagues have given themselves fairly complex: Devise a computer system that will winnow the “rarest of the rare” happenings from more than 1 million “alerts” that will be sounded each night from upcoming surveys of the universe, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

“It is the biggest problem in time-domain astronomy,” said Mario Juric, the LSST project scientist for data management.

It is not the only challenge. Over its lifetime, the LSST project will spend as much on computers, software development and data storage and access as it does on the nearly $500 million construction of the telescope, said Juric.

The collaboration formed to find the “rarest of the rare” events is called Antares, for “Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System.”

FlyPaper
09-09-2014, 14:44
I had a friend in middle school who slept walked out of a moving pickup truck camper attachment (they were common at the time). Unfortunately he didn't survive. If you're a sleep walker, be sure you think through such things.

rocketsocks
09-09-2014, 14:45
A lot of nursing homes use a wheelchair alarm. A small unit about 2x2x1" with a pin in it. A string on a clip attached to the person and tied into the pin, when the person moves past the range of the string the pin gets pulled the alarm goes off. Would probably wake the person or someone nearby.
Maybe the addition of a small electrical correction would help.

rocketsocks
09-09-2014, 14:46
I had a friend in middle school who slept walked out of a moving pickup truck camper attachment (they were common at the time). Unfortunately he didn't survive. If you're a sleep walker, be sure you think through such things.
ah man, that's horrible.

squeezebox
09-09-2014, 18:21
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/miscgreen/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by squeezebox http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/buttonsgreen/viewpost-right.png (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1906688#post1906688)
A lot of nursing homes use a wheelchair alarm. A small unit about 2x2x1" with a pin in it. A string on a clip attached to the person and tied into the pin, when the person moves past the range of the string the pin gets pulled the alarm goes off. Would probably wake the person or someone nearby.

Maybe the addition of a small electrical correction would help.
Rocket socks an electrical shock device would add a lot of $$ to the system, I don't know anything about the neurological aspects of sleep walking, and the legal issues would be huge,
If you have a serious ( or any) medical issue, work out the issues at home before you hit the trail, and/or bring a partner.

By the by how does one do those nice little boxes to copy what someone else posted

2Ply
09-09-2014, 18:35
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/miscgreen/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by squeezebox http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/buttonsgreen/viewpost-right.png (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1906688#post1906688)
A lot of nursing homes use a wheelchair alarm. A small unit about 2x2x1" with a pin in it. A string on a clip attached to the person and tied into the pin, when the person moves past the range of the string the pin gets pulled the alarm goes off. Would probably wake the person or someone nearby.

Maybe the addition of a small electrical correction would help.
Rocket socks an electrical shock device would add a lot of $$ to the system, I don't know anything about the neurological aspects of sleep walking, and the legal issues would be huge,
If you have a serious ( or any) medical issue, work out the issues at home before you hit the trail, and/or bring a partner.

By the by how does one do those nice little boxes to copy what someone else posted

By using the reply with quote button.

rocketsocks
09-09-2014, 20:05
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/miscgreen/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by squeezebox http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/buttonsgreen/viewpost-right.png (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1906688#post1906688)
A lot of nursing homes use a wheelchair alarm. A small unit about 2x2x1" with a pin in it. A string on a clip attached to the person and tied into the pin, when the person moves past the range of the string the pin gets pulled the alarm goes off. Would probably wake the person or someone nearby.

Maybe the addition of a small electrical correction would help.
Rocket socks an electrical shock device would add a lot of $$ to the system, I don't know anything about the neurological aspects of sleep walking, and the legal issues would be huge,
If you have a serious ( or any) medical issue, work out the issues at home before you hit the trail, and/or bring a partner.

By the by how does one do those nice little boxes to copy what someone else posted
I was only half jokin'....but who knew this actually existed, crazy world we live in.

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?106215-Fitness-Motivation-Pavlov-says-Hello


like 2Ply says, click on the reply with quote button and either type above or below quote un-quote brackets or it won't display correctly.