260: The Glass Necklace
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The Glass Necklace |
Title text: Well, for some value of 'actually work'. |
Explanation
The heat from a lightning strike can fuse sand into glass. When this occurs in nature hollow tubes called fulgurites are formed. Cueball uses this knowledge and a spark of handiness and ingenuity to create an entirely home made glass necklace for Megan. Here is some inspiration to do it yourself.
Trancscript
- [A man is drawing a diagram of a cylinder with electrical terminals on either end]
- [The man is shown at a workbench making the device in a workshop]
- [He kneels down on a beach and scoops up sand]
- [He pours the sand into the cylinder]
- [He ties a spool of string to one end of the cylinder, and ties a deflated weather balloon to the other end]
- [The weather balloon is inflated, and raised up into the clouds as thunder rumbles]
- [The end of the string is tied to a stake in the ground, and lightning is flashing in the background]:[Lightning hits the balloon, travels through the cylinder, and fuses it's contents]
- {Later}
- [The man follows the string to find the cylinder]
- [He detaches it, opens it, removes a solidified piece, and admires the piece]
- [He takes the stone to a jeweler]
- [The jeweler examines, grinds, and sets the now-shining stone in a necklace]
- [The man approves of the final result]
- [He gives it to a woman]