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#21 28 April 2007 - 08:39 PM grifter

Baryon

I'm gunna go for a parabolic cooker design, so I'd better find a hell of a big satellite dish, I'm gunna ring S.E.T.I. see if they've got any spares.......

The Grifter strikes again!

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#22 28 April 2007 - 08:52 PM Sisyphus

Trickster Archetype

You better hurry. This "contest" started almost three years ago!

It would be something, though. Sneaking into Arecibo with thousands of rolls of aluminum foil...

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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#23 28 April 2007 - 09:00 PM grifter

Baryon

yea it certainly would be!!!

and this challenge should be repeated for this year I'm bored and it will be a good way to cook food without having to turn on the oven. Did anyone bother to take part three years ago???

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#24 2 June 2007 - 09:09 PM alan2here

Molecule

This is the solution btw to the challenge.

<Spoiler>
Fill your garden with mirrors (idearly slightly concave) all pointing at the same place. That place will get verry hot.
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#25 13 May 2009 - 03:07 AM BlondeEngineer

Lepton

:doh:

No brainer for me... Dutch Oven on sidewalk... We already do it... Some actually just put aluminum foil on asphalt...

At construction sites I have actually seen workers put a honking huge burrito in foil on dashboard and had a piping hot lunch...

:eek:

Man I need to get my Evaporative Cooler going soon...

~It ain't hot until it reaches 100~

Right now we are in the warm 90's...