Inventor spurns burns with red-hot invention (cool!)

BayToday.ca ^ | Saturday, October 04, 2003 | Phil Novak

[gd124]

Pretty cool if genuine.

[COUNTrecount]

New underwear coating for Clinton's boxers ?

[Maelstrom]

He's wrong.

It'll put the fire insurance industry out of business.

I hope he's well insured and has a Plan B.

[buffyt]

We had a fire at our house in Oct. Burned the back wall of a closet. I was asking builders if there was some kind of substance you could put on the studs and sheetrock, etc. to make the house fireproof~ Looks like there will be soon!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

This is a very cool or hot invention, if, it pans out as advertised.

 

[fqued]

“It can stand up to the heat of re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere, and then they can simply wash it off.”

Water soluable???
then isn't it essentially a one-use item, indoors?
He needs another formula that's not water soluable, so that it can really be used outside.
Imagine coating the belly of the space shuttle with this stuff and then having a Florida downpour. Ooops, got to re-coat before we can take off. In the dampness of Florida, it might not even be much of a coating.

[Flyer]

He better sell the patent quick before Dow makes a similar product and gets it to market.

[avg_freeper]

I bet this stuff is the main ingredient of the Happy FUN BALL

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• Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
• Happy Fun Ball Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
• Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
  

Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:

• Itching
• Vertigo
• Dizziness
• Tingling in extremities
• Loss of balance or coordination
• Slurred speech
• Temporary blindness
• Profuse sweating
• Heart palpitations

If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.

Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.

When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...

Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.

Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee.

Happy Fun Ball

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

[HarleyD]

"He said it took him 17 years of work "and 3,600 pours of the stuff," before finding the right combination.

I wonder how many times he fried his head before he found the right stuff. Hope it works. NASA will be knocking at his door.

[Rebelbase]

"Pretty cool if genuine. "

Yeah, but is is safe enough to coat children's pajamas and how much money should the industry put aside to cover the eventual lawsuits 30 years down the road?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Here's our genius with his last invention.

[Holly_P]

...If these claims are true, it's a fantastic developement.It has the possibility of saving many lives.

... I hope for his sake that Canada has good patent laws.

[Maelstrom]

http://patty.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20030903-firepaste.asx

http://www.improb.com/news/2003/oct/troy-flamerproof.html

[aruanan]

Hurtubise has invented a physics-defying substance called fire paste, which he claims eliminates the cross-transfer of heat and prevents anything coated in the substance from burning up.

I notice the date in the article is this year, but something almost exactly like this was invented several years ago. It was something that was extremely cheap and that could be sprayed on. It was to have been very helpful in protecting buildings adjacent to fires.

a physics-defying substance

Don't you wish you could slap writers like this against the sides of their heads? It may be fire-resistant or heat-defeating, but it's not physics-defying.

[Maelstrom]

He wore that in the video link I?ve provided.

He uses it to take on a truck.

The truck wins, of course, but he's unhurt.

[anobjectivist]

If true this could turn the next level of x-prize (orbiting private space plane possibly) into a really trivial excercise, and really cheaply.

[ClearCase_guy]

something almost exactly like this was invented several years

I think I remember that one. It was ceramic, but hard as steel and "perfect" for including in building construction. It was basically going to make homes fire-proof. I saw one article on it, then it disappeared.

[Fresh Wind]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Sounds like cold fusion to me.

[Holly_P]

"it's not physics-defying."


...You are right of course. One simply does not defy physics. That's why they are called "laws" of physics instead of "guide lines" of physics.

...To obey those laws or not isn't an optional thing.


...but then, I am talking about laws on planet Earth. Are we sure this guy is from Canada???