the elevator gets in another elevator to take him up<br><br>"brilliant piece of engineering",(reply>), @iain hewitt <br>Ok, gold star for you, sonny jim!  I can get on with my day now.,(reply>), @ᒍᗩᗰᕮᔕ ᑭᗩᗯᔕOᑎ not ad hominem, an explanation of why your comparison was flawed. <br><br>I can see two reasons not to have people change carriages:<br><br>1. With two seperate systems, you can't be sure the carriages will always be there at the same time. By keeping people in the same container, you reduce the risk of inadvertent interaction with the machinery. <br><br>2. The usual engineering reason: it could be done. This is the reason that leads to innovation and advances in life in general about 70% of the time, notably when Paul C Fisher invented the space pen. Because he could. ,(reply>), +ᒍᗩᗰᕮᔕ ᑭᗩᗯᔕOᑎ except you made the analogy as though it were true, therefore making yourself look like a pretensious twit, especially with your overwraught name font thing.,(reply>), @nabijaczleweli <br>I never even thought the space pen story was true, and I don't really care if it was.  It was just a rhetorical analogical example used for illustrative purposes.  <br>So... enjoy that red herring, fam.,(reply>), +ᒍᗩᗰᕮᔕ ᑭᗩᗯᔕOᑎ Well," you sure are good at being pretentious. <a href=""http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp"">http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp</a>"