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A house fire can spread VERY quickly, and a standard fire detector may take a minute to alert. That minute can make the difference between watching your house burn down and dying. What if the walls made noise if they're burning?
These decorative wall strips are placed along each wall. The outside
is smooth and tastefully matches the decor. The inside contains popcorn.
You've gotta ask yourself a question
https://youtu.be/KR...si=oZy3vir1CLWNZwX4
Well do ya, punk? [21 Quest, Oct 21 2023]
Yes indeed ...
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[normzone, Nov 11 2025]
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One side of the bun is for Voice for the semi-good idea, and the other for 21's link. |
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...or you could do what my hillbilly grandfather did and line your walls with old coffee cans stuffed full of bacon grease and ammo while adding a fifty gallon barrel of tar to your roof every spring til the sag made it resemble a Japanese pagoda. |
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I was little at the time so I don't remember it, but I'm told that there wasn't a fireman to be seen for miles the day that place burned down. |
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Stupid, impractical and probably dangerous…. Fully Approved + |
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Am I the one to point out how slow popcorn is to pop over a direct flame? Although it would be a cinch against microwave fires. |
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Proposed is a panel of many very thin reeds of work-hardened aluminum under pressure. At higher temperatures the reeds fail, causing a clattering and pinging sound in the sound cavity created by the panel and other reeds. Mounted below the reeds are memory-shape alloy, polymer-mounted (to avoid corrosion) snap disks which will at an even lower temperature snap into the bottom of the panel. |
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Use a shock-sensitive explosive like lead styphnate (an initiator), an oxidizer like barium nitrate to provide oxygen, the stuff they use in bullet primer percussion caps and you get get early warnings for more than just fires. |
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A big enough earthquake might set them off, clumsy movers hitting the walls with furniture, nailing picture frames to the wall etc. |
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But seriously, already bunned this. It's actually a pretty good idea. The crackling sound would sound like fire and intuitively warn you to get out. |
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