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A display comprised of the usual seeming tall ship inside a bottle, but with the following twist:
The bottle actually has water in it. The ship is floating in the water.
The bottle is on a stand, which conceals power units powering wind, churning water and perhaps even lightning.
Sea Globes
Sea_20Globes
[DrCurry, Feb 15 2006]
Miserable sod, or eco-warrior?
http://news.bbc.co..../dorset/4678962.stm
[coprocephalous, Feb 16 2006]
A small wind in a bottle
http://www.metku.ne.../whiskypc/index_eng
Doesn't appeal much to me but his polished Shuttle does. [bristolz, Feb 16 2006]
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Didn't we do something like this? Didn't *I* do something like this? Oh, yeah, but without the motor. |
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I was actually thinking about a more ambitious unit, too, like perhaps a yacht replica sailing in an endless pool (with a fan powering the sails) being a nice house display for the super rich, or a casino, maybe |
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Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, with no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Vote for me before I fall into despair, oh
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I’ll send an idea out to the world
I’ll send an idea out to the world
I hope that someone likes my
I hope that someone likes my
I hope that someone likes my
Tempest in a bottle, yeah
Tempest in a bottle, yeah
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Nice anno, [Ling]. The bun is for you. |
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Praise indeed! I should be careful, lest my head bursts. |
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I like the lightning and Ling's song! |
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[theircompetitor] has managed to write an idea which incorporates artificially-created lightning, without once mentioning Van der Graaff generators. |
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In 'calm' mode, it can have St Elmo's fire and function as a nightlight. |
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Bun for the idea, and for Ling's anno, and for my anno. |
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Why should I, [hippo], I don't recall him ever mentioning me? |
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Came across a cartoon recently, where a shipwrecked sailor on a desert island opens a bottle to read: "You have no new messages." |
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[off topic] Radio 5 told last week of a guy from the States who put a number of bottles into the Atlantic to see how far they'd get. |
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Some miserable sod from Bournemouth found one and sent a letter back reprimanding the guy for littering the ocean. |
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Ta - changed. 100 miles out is fairly close by my standards (application to join USAF in post). |
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This wouldn't have anything to do with the recently posted (and completely ignored) "Massage in a Bottle" thing does it? |
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Blimey, DF, that idea must have slipped off the overview pretty fast - I hadn't seen it 'till you said. |
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I've took it inside, given it a bun, a blanket and some warm cocoa. |
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This scenario reminds me of the Halfbakery Orphanage - no one ever did get that search sorted. |
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[On topic] My eldest has a cheap toy involving a plastic creature in a small tank of water. The creature would float if allowed to, but is kept underwater by two clear wires that disappear into the gadgetry in the base. The wires are rapidly lengthened/shortened to make it look like it's moving around on its own accord. The same could be done with the ship in this (although presumably not the being underwater part). |
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