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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?"
NIPCO makes a liquid (disel) fuel heater that forces air with an electric fan. This can be vented through a metal container, such as a garbage can, containing un-popped popcorn and used like an air-popper. The exhaust, if properly tuned should carry popped kernels (lower density than unpopped) out to a destination. This exhaust, if enough air is applied to prevent jamming, could then be directed through a length of dryer vent tubing (think giant slinky with plastic) to the top of a home.
Good luck!
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
Use cardboard to build little boxes 'round the doors and windows so you only have to use a fraction of the amount of popcorn to make it look like you've filled the place.
I think you are talking about two separate kinds of disasters both with very little relation to the poster's situation. Sawdust fires/explosions are the result of igniting minute particles. I doubt that popcorn would produce enough concentration to be flamable. Hay bales self igniting is caused by fermentation of wet densely packed material. Popped popcorn is not densely packed nor wet and unpopped kernals are at an optimum 13 percent moisture. They will keep indefinatly at that moisture level and they need about that much to pop.