Redden said that she first noticed the problem about five years ago, but it didn't become a major issue until recently. "I came over here six months ago and just about fell out," she said.

Fell out of what?

Now I want to make an Archimedes death-ray pointed at my neighbors house.

Actually there was a story here in CT last summer about this type of thing. The siding looked like something out of a Dali panting.

DrySocket: Now I want to make an Archimedes death-ray pointed at my neighbors house.

God damn it, how did this get posted in the first nine posts?

/shakes tiny fist

skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

brigid_fitch: It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal..

-a Fleshlight. The whole thing!

Read more in Wednesday's editions of The Post and Courier.

Fail.

Boy they sure dont want that siding here in phoenix

100 thats about as low as it gets from now till next winter.

Not impressed

/hot like the full power of 112 suns

Who could have guessed this guy would be a problem neighbor?

skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal.

Fell out = fainted

why?

So in AZ the "laser" would actually cool you off?

baka-san: WOW!

100 degrees!

I'm surprised she didn't burst into flames!!!!!!

maybe Celsius?

They couldn't even come up with the picture of the beam/damage? weak

Let's get it over with.

Imma charging my laser!

Must be dude's hydroponic pot farm.

Came for the Kramer pic, thanks USCLaw2010.

DrMcNinja: Not impressed

/hot like the full power of 112 suns

came for this, leaving satisfied.

Was it guaranteed to blow her mind?

A laser beam powerful enough to affect that much square footage would be much hotter than 100 degrees, FYI.

/laserist

-Jonathan

Does the neighbour have curved windows, such that the light is focused on this poor woman's siding? If it is a normal, flat, window I fail to see how a reflection of the sun can melt plastic.

skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal.

Fell out = fainted

I was thinking the same thing. My wife is from the north and she has been making fun of me for 15 years because I use the phrase "packed out" when I mean "really crowded". But it is all good.....I catch her saying "fixin to" all the time.

Unless the neighbor has some bizarre concave parabolic window tinted with a nearly mirror finish I cant, for the life of me, see how anything lit by a reflection could get HOTTER than siding in direct sunlight.

/disapproves of 100-degree laser

From her quotes she is obviously a highly educated scholar and is speaking about Celsius measurements.

What a Crystal Carrier may look like.

aninconvenienterection: skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal.

Fell out = fainted

why?

I always thought the phrase came from soldiers being forced to stand at attention for long periods of time in the heat. So if they fainted,they "fell out" of formation. But if the phrase is unique to the South, this is almost surely incorrect.

as it turns out, this is not crazy.

the foreman who built our new home said that the low-e windows reflect so much uva (or whatever it is) that another house inthe neighborhood did actually have some of the siding melted off asa result of her neighbor's window. sucks that there's no one to really call to account, and that houses are so close together as to cause this problem.

Then again, he said there's been patches of dead lawn too... that seems like a bad fire hazard in the dog days of summer.


meanwhile, whatever heat they're reflecting, in the middle of january the thermostat in our window-rich bedroom got up to 86 regularly.. so i dunno.

brigid_fitch: skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal.

Fell out = fainted

Heh, up here in the Northeast, it means "to laugh hysterically". Made that particular quote kind of confusing...

I was confused because where I live it means "to have explosive leprosy". Crazy cultural differences, huh?

logophile: as it turns out, this is not crazy.

the foreman who built our new home said that the low-e windows reflect so much uva (or whatever it is) that another house inthe neighborhood did actually have some of the siding melted off asa result of her neighbor's window. sucks that there's no one to really call to account, and that houses are so close together as to cause this problem.

Then again, he said there's been patches of dead lawn too... that seems like a bad fire hazard in the dog days of summer.


meanwhile, whatever heat they're reflecting, in the middle of january the thermostat in our window-rich bedroom got up to 86 regularly.. so i dunno.

It's called home owners insurance. Take pictures, make claim, then if they don't cough it up? Small claims.

If only there was some way to design a device to deflect light away from something, like a mirror maybe.

logophile: as it turns out, this is not crazy.

the foreman who built our new home said that the low-e windows reflect so much uva (or whatever it is) that another house inthe neighborhood did actually have some of the siding melted off asa result of her neighbor's window. sucks that there's no one to really call to account, and that houses are so close together as to cause this problem.

Then again, he said there's been patches of dead lawn too... that seems like a bad fire hazard in the dog days of summer.


meanwhile, whatever heat they're reflecting, in the middle of january the thermostat in our window-rich bedroom got up to 86 regularly.. so i dunno.

They cant reflect any more than whats in normal sunlight, unless they're concave and focusing it.

A: I'm happy that there is a laser window that can kill, yet not even boil water.


B:Does she also blame HARRP for all the insane amount of rainbows in her yard?

In Australia, "fell out" means when you're at the pub and you're penis is hanging out of your pants and you don't realise it and you're walking around with your penis hanging out your pants.

/true
//not made up just then

What her house may look like.

/the link is hot, but not too hot

Light Amplification by (or due to, for some) Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Not a laser. Not really LIKE a laser, either. They actually got it mostly right within the article, though:
'"It's intense heat. It's like you take a magnifying glass to focus the sun," Wright said.'

Except for the part where he mentions that it's exclusively the fault of the reflective tint, this Wright guy doesn't have a W in his name. The light would refract upon entering the window and again upon exiting. Kind of odd, though. This means that either the light's undergoing some refraction and then being sent back out due to being coated with reflective material on BOTH sides, or it's only coated with reflective material on the INSIDE.

Sounds like poor window design to me.

/nerd
//correct me if I'm wrong

skinnycatullus: ToxicMunkee: Fell out of what?

It's odd how growing up in the South makes certain phrases seem normal.

Fell out = fainted

OK, now I'm totally confused by what Britney meant when she said her p*ssy fell out.

/you're

GrievousBodyguard: /correct me if I'm wrong

You're wrong. Dude clearly has a 100 degree laser.