Follow-ups: Ice-cubes

[jack]

* Coke icecubes don't sink
* Saturated sugar icecubes *do*, however, although (a) I wouldn't swear to anything regarding their enthalpy and (b) they look very weird.
* In fact, in all honesty, the best solution for "ice cubes attacking your nose" is just to only use one or two, and everything's fine. That would only actually fail if you want to leave it standing a long time.
* However, I think the marble thing is very cool, so want to try it out of all proportion to the extent that it solves the issues I described[Dagger].

ETA: http://www.flashingblinkylights.com/lightup-products-lighted-cubes-c-114_77.html is an example of the other suggestion, that light-up cubes can probably be made to sink, or even be neutrally buoyant.

Comments

ice cubes attacking your nose

[ewx.livejournal.com]

You could have a kind of nose-shield?

Re: ice cubes attacking your nose

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I was considering an ablatative barrier of a glass wall and a few inches of water to do so :)

Re: ice cubes attacking your nose

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

But playing with buoyancy's more fun!

Re: ice cubes attacking your nose

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, possibly my sentence was ambiguous. I meant not that "I was wondering whether to change my mind and have a shield instead" but that "the glass I already have functions as my shield". I'm sure you guessed, hence the solidarity with the crazy marble-cycling-across-Cambridge idea :)