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Mirror-Mist
It's a mirror in a can! The fairest idea of them all! | |
You're out and about. You need a decent reflection (something superior to a car windshield or restaurant window), but there's no mirror handy. Whip a can of Mirror-Mist out of your backpack and spray a small quantity on any flat surface. When the liquid dries, you'll have a perfect albeit temporary mirror:
on the sidewalk, on a mailbox, on the cover of a book, on your briefcase, anywhere. It's easy to wipe away with a paper towel and completely biodegradable (based on the same compound that makes the skin of an apple shiny and reflective).
Also useful for people with a fear of breaking mirrors.
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I'd carry this around with my saline solution....it would help me be able to *fix* a contact lens anywhere without having to search for a bathroom or peer awkwardly into car mirrors. Croissant! |
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what is it made of? fear of mirrors = catoptrophobia I believe. |
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I haven't settled on a final formula, but the main ingredient will almost certainly be love. |
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The most important difference between Mirror-Mist and the roll-up mirror is portability. |
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Who looks the most like J-Lo? |
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//main ingredient will almost certainly be love// |
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Do you also make 'bucket-in-a-can'? |
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[bliss]: My definition of a reflectiphobiac would be someone who refuses to take stock of his or her life, refuses to introspect even in the slightest degree, and refuses to meditate on the consequences of his or her decisions and actions. An impulse-driven rejector of the inner life. |
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love is a form of madness. hardly a topping for pizza let alone a formula for a spray-on-mirror. |
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[po]: OK then, the main ingredient will be wisdom, because it lets you see yourself as you truly are |
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My first prototypes used mercury (borrowing the idea from liquid mirror telescopes such as the one at the University of British Columbia), but I was so wretchedly ill all the time I couldn't bear to look at myself |
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are you trying to annoy or what? these are abstracts. |
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Must, resist, m-f-d WIBNI, uh,... |
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OK OK, no more kidding around, the spray is made of mercury. Now I just have to figure out how to make it safe. |
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I think that each HB idea and its set of annotations is kind of like a developing weather system. Both follow some basic rules and patterns, while leaving room for wildness and unpredictability. Both feature interacting cold fronts and warm fronts. Both have activity on multiple levels (in the case of the HB, these might be the pedantsphere, the jokesphere, the dreamsphere, etc). Sometimes the right circumstances and entities come together to form the "perfect storm" - older bakers would have better examples than me. I think I might turn this into an idea - a way of thinking about the Halfbakery. |
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Back to the mercury. Any thoughts? |
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For what it's worth, the most important element of a mirror is its smoothness. So you either want a compound that automatically smooths its surface perfectly, or start out with a smooth surface (say, window glass in the city, water in the country). |
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In the former case, it's WIBNI. In the latter case, it's basically silver spray-paint. |
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Stuck between a rock and a baked place. |
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Martha Stewart: "A gentle coating of mirror mist is the hospitable way to brighten those sturdy but dull pewter table utensils." |
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I agree with the abstracts, and I'm with them. |
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Puritans didn't/don't like mirrors? Man, those people don't like the truth and they don't like lies. There's no pleasing them (which I suppose is part of the point). |
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Earl: Many people are under the mistaken impression that the Puritnas emigrated to the New World tom escape religious intolerance. In fact, they went there so they themselves could be intolerant in their own particualr way. I believe historical fact will back me up on this (c.f Bill Bryson). But the list of things they did and didn't like is surprisingly contradictory. |
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Mirrors (and mirror type effects) rely on nothing more than an extremely smooth planar surface. An intriguing idea. I'll give it some thought. |
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no, I want real Mirror-Mist.
When I look into mirror there, through a swirling mist I
see myself. |
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rmtmaine: "When I look into mirror there, through a swirling mist I see myself." .... "As in a glass, darkly", perchance ? |
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"I am half-sick of shadows," cried the Lady of Shalott. |
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"shadow": Victorian term for reflection |
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No, but that girl certainly knows her onions ..... |
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+ This is awesome, even if it may be bad science... |
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