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Take a metal vessel with a thick base. Fill it with water, and place it outside your back door.
Now comes the clever bit...
Up in orbit, astronauts or robots harvest space junk and asteroids, and gather up a chunk into a ball. Aiming carefully, they launch this ball out of orbit and down
towards you, glowing red hot with atmospheric friction.
It lands in the vessel, and boils the water. You then make coffee.
Dial-A-Smite
http://www.halfbake...m/idea/Dial-a-Smite
Celestrial wrath but no coffee. [Aristotle, Dec 06 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Top 5 Cosmic Myths
http://www.space.co...myths_020903-5.html
[tastymcj]'s link as a link [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Yes, I thought of this while waiting for the kettle to boil. |
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would there be a 1-800 number you could call or a website on which to order a boiling? |
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p.s. i think we need more truly half-baked ideas such as this. |
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Make sure you specify very clearly whether the volume to be boiled is measured in liters or gallons. |
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I like the reverse way better:
1) Take your (already full) kettle to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2) NASA kindly places your kettle in the rear of the space shuttle.
3) Once in space, astronauts slap a heat shield on your kettle, aim it at your house and let 'er rip. |
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The bonus? Even if *you* don't get hot water, *somebody* does. |
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Sounds like a good idea, except for the following: |
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http://www.space.com/
scienceastronomy/
top5_myths_020903-5.html |
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Yes a thick metal base.... about half a mile thick and wider than Australia should do the trick. |
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[+] another great idea from the way-back hb!! |
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Excelent. Could extend to making soup by putting veg in a bucket. Squished, hot veg = soup. |
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//Take a metal vessel with a thick base. Fill it with
water, and place it outside your back door.// |
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Well, that part's doable. |
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You could use a really big meteor impacting some distance away, and arrange for a tektite to land in your coffeepot. |
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