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Revenge for the Foil Apartment?
GooseKirk asks: "Just over a year ago, my apartment was completely covered in foil. For some reason, this resulted in global media attention, and ever since, people have been asking me, "what are you doing for revenge?" A few great ideas fell through for various reasons (Ron Jeremy was booked, apparently), and sadly, I currently lack access to an orbital weapons platform, so let me pose this riddle to the great Slashdot collective: if you were going to cook enough popcorn to effectively, and let's say hypothetically, bury a small single-story building, how would you cook it and how would you deliver it, quickly and quietly, say, under cover of darkness? At the least, I think it's an interesting puzzle, and other wacky ideas are certainly welcome... just remember, people, mum's the word, OK?"
the first thing i'dve done was not post to a news source that is read by hundreds of thousands of geeks per day.
the suprise is the best part of the practical joke.
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What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
i suggest removing the magnetron from a microwave (or purchasing a magnetron, whatever's easier) to pop the kernals. most efficient (i think) would be to put the kernals in his apartment and pop them there. it would take a long time (depending on how you decide to power the magnetron, personal experience advises against batteries) but it would be pretty easy. you can likely get popcorn fairly cheap at costco or whatnot, and google yeilds 50 lbs for $20. prolly best to team up with a few buddies with the magnetrons...
man id like to see that done... lazers are fer wusses, im all about the ray-guns.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
In order to deliver in the cover of darkness, rent several vans. Remember the logistical problem of this is to fill the volume of a building. You do realize that say a moving van full ballons will probably fill an 18ft by 10 ft by 10 ft space. So if it is a one story building, that is say 1000sq with 10 foot ceilings, you'll need something on the order of 5-6 moving vans full of (popcorn/ballons). To fill it ceiling to floor right for the entire building.
The bonus to this, is if you can find a rental place (in America, it's relatively simple to find, but I don't know about the UK (where I believe you live from the link I was reading) to rent a helim thing to inflate roughly half of them (ceilings) and then an air compressor to inflate the other half (floor).
With an air compressor (a $90USD), or a vacuum you can use as a blower, if making a lot of noise is acceptable, you can just stand outside the house and fill the ballons. The bigger the balloons, the fewer you need. It might be advantagous to find several just huge ballons (think 4-6 feet in diameter) to just fill large volumes to be inflated on site, while pre-inflating the smaller filler ballons to pack the place fairly tight. to make very difficult to move around in. The other problem with this plan, is that anything that is fragile and at a below the height you plan on putting the ballons/popcorn to might get knocked over during the cleanup.
This idea, isn't an original of mine. Some of my older sisters friends did this to my sister for her birthday. They filled her room to about 4 foot high with ballons in her room.
Kirby