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Make all houses out of glass. The ingredients are abundant, easily recycled and can be tinted an infinite number of colours.
Breakages are not necessarily dangerous, with toughening and laminating available, or thickened panels of glass quite common.
Glass is a good insulator, especially
with a layer of air sandwiched between two layers of glass.
Variable filter double glazing
http://www.halfbake..._20double_20glazing
[hippo, Sep 24 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Storm Data
http://members.ozem...istorm/reports.html
[UnaBubba, Sep 24 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
The Glass House
http://www.greatbui.../Johnson_House.html
somebody been there, done that [FarmerJohn, Sep 24 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
The Panopticon
http://cartome.org/panopticon1.htm
The work of Bentham. His skellington is kept dressed, surmounted with a wax head, in a cabinet in UCL. [calum, Sep 24 2002]
The Dead Past
http://www.cmacadem...culum/deadpast.html
The Mighty Asimov on the subject .... [8th of 7, Sep 27 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
The Truman Show
http://www.cnn.com/.../review.trumanshow/
All Jim Carrey all the time. [Amos Kito, Sep 27 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Glass Pants
http://www.halfbake.../idea/Glass_20pants
[Amos Kito, Sep 27 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Sucker Shelves
http://www.halfbake...ea/Sucker_20Shelves
[Tahir, Sep 28 2002]
Transparent house - to be used in Big Brother
http://news.bbc.co....d_radio/4576543.stm
[hippo, May 25 2005]
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"Now for the weather..hail storms predicted" |
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guess UB has never sewn curtains by hand. |
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Tomato vines would climb up the staircase bannister. |
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[skinflaps], if glass stops bullets then hail isn't likely to bother you. I live in an area where we get severe hail most summers. |
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[po], you are right. We have no curtains in our home. Why would I need them? If someone wants to look at me that is their business. |
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Neither of those things is what this idea is about, though. |
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Take a look through Brisbane's weather records, Mephista. |
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We had a hailstorm here yesterday. Not severe, but we'll get them every week or so until about the end of February. |
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"January 18, 1985 Brisbane: Brisbane's most damaging thunderstorm. An unusually large supercell thunderstorm that formed on the Border Ranges a few hours earlier moved through on the Friday afternoon as people drove home from work. Cricket ball size hail and torrential rain fell, driven by winds recorded at 185km/h at the airport, and 145km/h in the CBD. At least 20 000 buildings were damaged, 80 000 premises were blacked out, and it was estimated that 20% of Brisbane's cars were hail damaged. More than 50 people were injured, and damage reached $177million. Cloudtops 17km." |
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Not a good place to run a paper shop. |
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It would be great if you could control the colour of the glass - different colours would not only change the houre's external appearance, but change the internal ambient lighting to suit your mood. You could also make the glass opaque if (unlike UnaBubba) you wished to carry out activities unsuited to the passing observer. |
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Does anything like this exist, though? There is glass that changes colour over time, and in different types of light - but is there a more controllable way of modulating glass colour (or transparent plastic, I guess)? |
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Those who live in glass houses should not get their rocks off. |
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GW, there was another last year, with minimal hail, but 317 mm (12.5in) of rain in just a few hours. Yep, it did some damage. [link] |
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Oy, but who's gonna clean it? |
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Geez guys... your obsession with cleanliness is killing me. Use one of those window-washing bottles that snap onto your garden hose fittings. They contain surfactants *and* detergents. Wash on and wash off. They work very well. |
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Inside? A 2ft squeegee does a lot of glass quickly. Hire one of those annoying kids who hang out at traffic lights, doing windscreens. |
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This idea will:
Reduce crime. Everyone can see what you're doing.
Destroy the porn industry. Everyone can see what you're doing.
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I didn't mention it, but roofing and flooring can also be glass. That should freak the cat out. |
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Or prisons. 'Bubba's Panopticon'. |
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//who's gonna clean it?// Glass manufacturers have now developed self-cleaning glass, according to an advert Pilkingtons have placed in this week's Radio Times. |
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I'm just worried about the safety of little kids. It's bad enough having glass in our doors at home. Junior crashing whatever he's riding/pushing/throwing into the glass makes Mrs Silly and me cringe each and every time. If we have to worry about them hitting the walls or the floor too - it would be enough to make us want to find a warm, well-ventilated cave to move to. |
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From the desert: No thanks. It's already a hundred and ninety-eleven degrees here. I'd be like an ant under a magnifying glass. |
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That'd leave you half cooked. |
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Can anyone here say air-con.... air.....con....? |
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On my planet, we don't have unlimited funds or unlimited energy resources. |
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Then switch planets. Why would you need unlimited funds or energy resources? Ventilation does wonders for heat dispersal. |
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[UnaBubba]: I was referring to the air conditioning annotation. Air conditioning a glass house in 115+ degrees would likely be considerably more costly than cooling my conventionally constructed house. In a quick search, I was unable to turn up any sources that produce glass with R-30 or better insulating value. Not to mention the energy gain due to the transmission of light through my roof. |
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I suppose that there's nothing terribly wrong with a glass house in a more moderate climate. I just don't want one in (front of) my back yard. |
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I'm too literal-minded to go down the "glass house as a representation of how I should live my life" road. |
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I remain neutral on this one. |
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//I'm too literal-minded to go down the "glass house as a representation of how I should live my life" road.// |
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At last! Someone mentions it. No-one had even done that so far. |
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Hm. I guess I must be having an off day. In fact, I'm sure of it...I stopped myself just in time, I nearly used the word "metaphor". |
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The fear seems to be: what will people see? What about what YOU will see? Living so very close and seperate to the world that we build shelter against. Hummmmm. Nature will surely hurl large objects of destruction at your audacity made of diaphane. |
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//Glass is a good insulator// |
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Pretty crappy at stopping heat from escaping via radiation, though.. |
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This is a baaad idea that many an architect has entertained before. Sorry, bone. |
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Now I think about it, there is a (mainly) glass house on Grand Bouevard in Venice, California. It's excitingly architectured, and was finished about a year ago now, but you can see into the kitchen from the street and has so far failed to find tenants [confirm/deny, thumbwax/half?]. |
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Mirror (one-way) glass. Reflects heat; but occupants can see out. Huge LCDs to provide privacy at night. Also makes walls into huge viewscreens -have any view your want - different ones in different rooms. |
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I think technical issues can be overcome with good design. |
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Like the idea -croissant. |
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I'm not certain why people are so afraid of people looking in. It's common in Holland to allow views into your lounge from the street. |
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My house has a window 5m x 2.1m (out of a frontage of 7 m x 2.4m) facing the street, at street level. Some gawk, some marvel, some ignore. We don't care. |
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Gotta give a pastry - I think we need to do a lot more with glass as a building material. 'Course, when I retire, I want to live at the bottom of Kasei Vallis - local building materials will be limited. So get the bugs worked out for me, will ya? (I think I'll be able to retire in about 300 years...) |
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To switch a window to opaque: fill the sandwich with styrofoam beads. Doesn't take much energy to blow them in/suck them out. (That part is baked, I've seen it; searching for link...) |
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What about glass bricks? They are fairly opaque, have air in them already, and are quite attractive. Let lots of light in without giving viewers a clear look at you. |
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I see visions of very confused goldfish swimming frantically trying to understand their envoirnment. |
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This is not about light. It's about the allegory of living in a house which is invisible. A house where your every action is on view. A house where you are prompted to be a better person because you have nothing to hide and nowhere to hide it if you did. |
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[UnaBubba]: Give it up, man.
<Star Trek>He's dead, Jim</Star Trek> |
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Skip the architecture. [UnaBubba] Contract for your own special production run of mini wireless eyeball cameras. Buy the company! Why not? Install them in every orifice of your humble abode. broadcast your site and make it audience interactive. Viewers can select their own viewing angle and even watch the same scene from multiple angles at the same time. You could even plant one in your pocket! |
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Better than a glass house in a physical locale. Now you can have nearly 6 billion veiwers and we can play with the zoom!
<now where's that annoying spy cam pop-up when you nead it?> |
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Doesn't that girl on Jennicam.com already live her life sorta publicly? |
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I could see a tv show about people living in a glass house for a while, like the "Real World" format or something. Cameras should be set up inside and outside the house as well as aimed in through the windows, and out from the windows, to get the full perspective. Assuming ALL interior walls would also be glass/transparent, this would have to be a cable and/or Internet broadcast, due to censorship. |
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Question - would there be any opacity, say, for bathrooms? |
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Thanks for the Brisbane weather link, General Washington. The only thing I miss (apart from the unbearable humidity) from when I lived there is the storms. Nothing like it here in Victoria.. |
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I once worked in an A&W that had nothing but floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the 3 sides that made up the front of the building. God, it was awful in summer (the full 2-1/2 months I was there -- I imagine it would be equally, awfully cold in winter). How would you fix this? |
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I believe heat doesn't transfer as well through vacuums... it also helps if the outside of the house is reflective. They can add things to glass to make them shinier, which might work. |
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I'm possibly about to bulldoze my house and start again. We are looking at increasing the glazed area... a lot, as one of the options. |
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//if glass stops bullets then hail isn't
likely to bother you.// |
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Now laser weapons on the other hand... |
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People who live near UnaBubba
shouldn't throw rocks at his glass
houses
(if you know what's good for you.) + |
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Interesting... I had to remove a pane of laminated, toughened glass recently. It was glued in with a windscreen sealant compound. |
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It took a hammer and chisel and two hours to remove a piece of glass 2ft x 2ft. Throw rocks, see if I care. |
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You sure it wouldn't get annoying after
a while? |
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Besides, I am more apt to use
my frikken laser beams. |
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(see link) "A transparent house will greet contestants on the sixth series of hit reality show Big Brother. Channel 4 hopes the house will feel more "claustrophobic" than previous years because contestants will have nowhere to hide from each other. " |
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There's a contradiction in terms. A claustrophobic glass house. |
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