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Start fire with carved ice used as magnifying lens (video)
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Posted on 08/19/2011 2:48:48 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Carves ice into lens shape to start fires with sunlight. (click for video)


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1 posted on 08/19/2011 2:48:51 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Mythbusters?


2 posted on 08/19/2011 2:50:35 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Mount Athos

gonna need fire to unthaw your hands after making the lens


3 posted on 08/19/2011 2:54:49 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Mount Athos

Pretty cool. In theory this would be possible.


4 posted on 08/19/2011 2:58:42 PM PDT by svcw
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To: Mount Athos

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost
1920


5 posted on 08/19/2011 2:59:15 PM PDT by buridan
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To: Mount Athos

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost
1920


6 posted on 08/19/2011 2:59:38 PM PDT by buridan
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To: Mount Athos
I don't have time to view the video right now (work), but wasn't this done by Anthony Hopkins in the movie "The Edge"?

(It is also good as a movie that shows Alec Baldwin as being the same scheming a-hole he is in real life....)

7 posted on 08/19/2011 3:00:38 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Mount Athos

You can also use a condom - Not the party colored ones - a clear one - fill it full of water, tie it off and squeeze all the water to one end - use as a lens,

or - a 9v battery and steel wool.

Car battery, jumper cables, and a pencil - video on youtube.

Coke can and chocolate bar - polish the bottom of the can with the chocolate and use it as a reflector in sunlight to start the fire - don’t eat the chocolate! Aluminum patina contains toxins.

Fun stuff to know.


8 posted on 08/19/2011 3:18:32 PM PDT by 30Moves
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To: Mount Athos

hum, that gives me an idea.

Can you warm up an ice princess the same way?


9 posted on 08/19/2011 3:29:52 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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Can you warm up an ice princess the same way?

Ice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

10 posted on 08/19/2011 3:40:23 PM PDT by fhayek
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