Snow globe warning.

[gotham]

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.

[db-sa]

So you're just giving a warning of one of the unforeseen hazards of global warming.

[gotham]

Your comment would be funny, if not for the fact that we could have had a fire in our house !!

[Vermin_King]

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

[WVA]

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

[N96HBK]

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. :(

[Richschindler]

Thank you for the heads up. Never would have thought that could happen. Indeed, anything is possible.

[peaceglue]

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.