using reuseable plastic foundation/forms...why not fill them with water to construct novel and neat winter artwork?....

Canadian Tire or Zellers should sell water injection moulds that turn to ice....these iceworks should have the option of adding biodegradeable ink/dye or lights to illuminate/excentuate ice sculpters

for those who are more creative....why not display a self created ice artistic monument on your front yard rather then a boring snowman?...kind of like a totem pole or sand castle done with ice/ink

and i've recently been thinking about a different idea....i'd love to see an artistic competition comparing water/wind, ink/ice towers....through the use of three things 1)water (temp controlled), 2)wind (monitored) 3)water drip motion.....it would be interesting who can construct/create the coolest ice formations.....kind of like what you see in caves except upside down....

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Canadian Tire or Zellers should sell water injection moulds that turn to ice

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I guess they'd have to make them out of water then, because water is the only thing in the universe that turns to ice.

Unless you meant "molds that can be filled with water which will subsequently turn to ice"? In which case you'd best work on a new space-age supermaterial to build these molds. The expansion of water as it freezes has, in the past, been used to quarry stone. Expanding water can break just about any solid that tries to restrict it.

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Keep going though Courtney. You may yet come up with an idea that can't be debunked in under 60 seconds by anyone with a highschool science education and at least two brain cells to rub together.

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You know, these little factoids can be found with a little reading. That's what real inventors and entrepreneurs do when they have an idea. They do some research and find out if their idea can work. They don't just visit a message board and fart out every idea that crosses their little mind in the longshot hope that one of them might actually obey the laws of physics.

and this?

1999

Try filling a wine bottle with water and put it outside in the winter. Even though you've left the top open for the water to escape, it will still break the bottle at the shoulder. The problem is that by the time the water is expanding, it's not all liquid and cannot necessarily escape. In the case of an ice cube tray, there's no constriction. The cubes, if you notice, are inevitably wider at the top than the bottom for exactly this reason.

So if you want some molds to make giant ice cubes on your lawn, no problem. Molds shaped like cones, cubes and cylinders could also be accomodated. Swans, ships, people, or just about anything that's not boring would, like the wine bottle, break.

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Keep going though Courtney. You may yet come up with an idea that can't be debunked in under 60 seconds by anyone with a highschool science education and at least two brain cells to rub together. How about edible stop signs? Or maybe underwater rocks that glow in the dark and light the way for spaceships or something?

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See, Courtney, I think that that is mean, even if sometimes it might be true. That's why I said you remind me of my husband. He kept having all these great inventor-type ideas too. Motorized roller-skates was one; he remained enthusiastic even after I raised a few questions about relative momentum and stopping.

Skdadl, if I went to any forum here at babble and began spouting nonsense like "Israel only became Israel in 1841" or "Marx didn't invent Communism, Foucault did", someone would eventually ask me to please start doing a wee bit of research before wasting everyone's time posting nonsense.

After a few times, they might start to remind me that babble doesn't exist solely to be a mirror for me to view my ideas through, nor an editor for when I'm feeling too lazy to do my own research.

After a few dozen times, me apparently not getting it, someone would almost certainly become a "meanie" toward me. Maybe even you.

As for yesterday, I spent it wrapping crying pipes in my new basement and smashing out a crumbly faux ceiling. In other words, doing real work.

ed'd to add: hey! What meta-comment?

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Originally posted by Américain Égalitaire:
don't they do this in Ottawa every winter? Your idea is for other cities in Canada to do this? That would be cool (pun intended).

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The dripping idea is interesting, but would take a lot of patience.

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Speculating wildly (no precedent there), what if the moulds were engineered to expand, yet with enough resistance to allow the form to set?

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If you could ensure that the ice would expand uniformly it could work. If not, you could have a statue with a huge head, or a swan with a big ass.

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Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

Am I the only person here who attended school? Or who ever forgot a few beers in the freezer?

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http://www.icesculptures.ltd.uk/productrange.htm

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/candymolds/M-icemolds/M-icemolds.htm

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Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

If you could ensure that the ice would expand uniformly it could work. If not, you could have a statue with a huge head, or a swan with a big ass.

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Well, swans do indeed have big ol' bustling asses. Kinda cute, actually.

BTW, is a wonerment a mash-up of wonderment and ornament????

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