Posted on 09/29/2010 6:42:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen
And here you thought bedbugs were the biggest source of anxiety for hotel guests.
Yes, guests at Vdara hotel in Las Vegas now have something else to worry about: being burned alive by the glare of the building's "death ray."
What the heck's a "death ray," you ask? Well, first off, it's not as deadly as it sounds, since no one has actually died from it -- at least not yet. But according to the U.K. Daily Mail, the powerful beams of Nevada sunlight reflecting off the glass hotel onto sections of the hotel's swimming pool area have burned some guests and have melted plastic bags.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
If you’re lounging by the pool you’re not gambling in the casinos and the casinos don’t like this.
If it is marketed as a tanning feature, Obama will slap a 10% tax on all hotel guests.
Reminded me of a copper clad convex awning I installed in downtown FW 15 years ago. It focused the sun such that it literally blistered the skin in a few seconds. We had to put up a plastic tarp hung on a boomlift to get some relief, but the sun reflected at the edges and caught the thing on fire! My first realization came as flaming drips of plastic fell on my back and head....
Check this out!
And the hotel could offer it a a service and not be liable to the special tax on tanning beds for obambacare.
May I suggest a pair of cheap sunglasses after that vegas all nighter..
Ah, the Texas sun. I lived in Dallas awhile... when I got there, I took the house plants out of the moving van first to get them out of the way. Put them on the back patio, went back to help with the unloading.
Later on, the truck finally pulls away, so I go to get the plants...
...they're toast.
Where are the pictures of the Vegas Bikini babes like we saw in “The Hangover”?
Here I thought you were talking about a Venus-technique warped wavefront beam. Google it.
That must have been a sizable sheet to focus that amount of sunlight to where it blisters the skin that fast. Amazing.
Ants meet magnifying glass
That’s RENO 911
You know, some window films actually reflect IR.
Darth Vader: “Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
Ooops! ;)
A person struck by this Venus-technique warped wavefront beam has a sudden interruption of all control of his heartbeat, and so his heart goes into instant, uncontrolled, and violent fibrillation.
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