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)
Mythbusters?
gonna need fire to unthaw your hands after making the lens
Pretty cool. In theory this would be possible.
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
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
(It is also good as a movie that shows Alec Baldwin as being the same scheming a-hole he is in real life....)
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.
hum, that gives me an idea.
Can you warm up an ice princess the same way?
Ice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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