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Snow globe warning.
Just a quick safety message here. My wife was just tidying in my late daughter's bedroom. Suddenly she smelt smoke. Sunlight was passing through a snow globe and had focused the light onto some paper, igniting it ! Lucky for us my wife was in the room at the time !
Seeing as we build and display card / paper models, just be careful where you display them.
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So you're just giving a warning of one of the unforeseen hazards of global warming.
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Your comment would be funny, if not for the fact that we could have had a fire in our house !!
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House fires are never funny.
Another close call was when I was little. I had a couple of cereal box prizes: a submarine and a scuba diver that would go up and down in water when you put baking soda in them. Mom had them in a glass bowl in the south kitchen window, and the grocery list on the table got somewhat scorched from the concentrated sunlight. You just don't think about things like that
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Firemen nearly axed a wall to find the source of smoke in our bathroom. Fortunately, they discovered a smoking spot where a shaving mirror was focusing a sunbeam onto the wood! Again, could have been a fire if no one was at home to call the firemen.
Even so, I find the "global warming" comment funny! Jim |
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Good to hear that you found the cause quick enough.
I used to have this really clear snowglobe I bought from Cardiff. It smashed in my bag the day I got it. If I still had it, our whole apartment would've burnt down. The sun is really strong here in Korea, and the snowglobe wouldve ignited everything in the living room- Nearly everything is made out of wood!!!!! If that really did happen, we can't stop the fire. The owner didn't even give us a fire extinguisher. :(
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Thank you for the heads up. Never would have thought that could happen. Indeed, anything is possible.
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Another warning and no joke...
We have a metal salad bowl, inside the bowl the surface was made very reflective. You see the problem and really we saw a little aera of salad went up to smoke on a sunny afternoon. The salad bowl acts like a parabol mirror.
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