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It's a niche market, but you can get a bed right out of science fiction. I'm talking to you, man. (Read the complete story)

"Why 2010 when you can use Star Wars? This reminds me of Darth Vader's pod/cubicle aboard the Excutor in SW:ESB." (Yossi Preminger 9/23/2009 9:50:18 AM)

"I'm guessing you'd want to include a good sound system, to make sure that great John Williams score gets all the bass and treble it deserves. " (Bill Christensen 9/23/2009 12:07:16 PM)

"Here's an extreme example. In his 1955 novel The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester describes the predicament of Gully Foyle, trapped on a drifting spaceship that has been left open to hard vacuum. He sleeps in a pressurized tool locker. 'Foyle awoke. His heart hammered and his throat burned. He groped in the dark for the air tank which shared his [locker] with him and checked it. The tank was empty. Another would have to be moved in at once... He felt through the locker shelves and located a torn spacesuit. It was the only one aboard Nomad and Foyle no longer remembered where or how he had found it... Foyle got into the suit. It would hold enough air from the locker to allow him five minutes in vacuum... no more. Foyle opened the locker door and plunged out into the black frost of space. The air in the locker puffed out with him and its moisture congealed into a tiny snow cloud that drifted down the torn main-deck corridor... He turned and propelled himself through the floating debris toward the the hatch to the ballast hold... Two minutes were gone. Foyle took a minute disconnecting an air tank. He had no way of knowing whether it was full or already exhausted... He yanked the massy cylinder toward the ballast hatch, ducked to let it sail over his head... Four minutes had elapsed and he was shaking and blacking out. He... bulled it into the tool locker. He slammed the locker door, dogged it, found a hammer on a shelf and swung it thrice against the frozen tank to loosen the valve. Foyle twisted the handle grimly. With the last of his strength he unsealed the helmet of his spacesuit, lest he suffocate within the suit while the locker filled with air.. if this tank contained air. He fainted, as he had fainted so often before, never knowing whether this was death...'" (Bill Christensen 9/23/2009 12:12:29 PM)

"space shuttle bunk bed http://bedzine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/spaceshuttle-bunkbeds.gif" ( 9/23/2009 12:21:02 PM)

"A child man bed. " (Bill Christensen 9/23/2009 12:28:49 PM)

"I've never heard this phrase 'man bed' before, and now I see Google, Merriam-Webster, the various WikiMedia projects, even Urban Dictionary does not know about these two words used together like this ... What does this mean? Is a 'man bed' a bed for a man rather than a woman, a bed for one person, a bed with a roof?" (mystified 9/24/2009 5:56:54 AM)

"Another bed, even though not a "Man Bed" is the one described in Robert Heinlein's Have Space Suit Will Travel." ( 9/24/2009 6:41:22 AM)

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