Go right ahead. If you want, you can add a throwaway comment about Lost just for giggles.
My idea, just in case it differs from yours, was to build a solid sand igloo shape, then coat that with a mix of sand, potash (sodium carbonate) and lime -- the ingredients of glass. Doug would then use a fire song and pretty much engulf the thing in flame and pump it up to the fusing point. It would happen so fast that if properly constructed it wouldn't have time to "slump"... and if Doug managed to control the heat and "cook time" properly, he might even be able to turn it into a reasonable facsimile of the original Corning Ware pyroceram material -- practically-unbreakable opaque white glass.
(Tangent: the Corning Ware you can buy today is not the true Corning Ware. The stuff is so tough that after 50 years or so Corning saturated the market and sales declined below profitable levels. They sold the trademark to some other company which sells stoneware or something under the name now.)
Anyway, after it cools, you dig out the sand inside and voila -- one glass hut. Giving it some thought, I'd probably start the form a couple feet below ground, with a little "spread" at the bottom to provide an anchor in the sand. I can't see how you could make a glass floor, though, at least not at the same time.
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...
My idea, just in case it differs from yours, was to build a solid sand igloo shape, then coat that with a mix of sand, potash (sodium carbonate) and lime -- the ingredients of glass. Doug would then use a fire song and pretty much engulf the thing in flame and pump it up to the fusing point. It would happen so fast that if properly constructed it wouldn't have time to "slump"... and if Doug managed to control the heat and "cook time" properly, he might even be able to turn it into a reasonable facsimile of the original Corning Ware pyroceram material -- practically-unbreakable opaque white glass.
(Tangent: the Corning Ware you can buy today is not the true Corning Ware. The stuff is so tough that after 50 years or so Corning saturated the market and sales declined below profitable levels. They sold the trademark to some other company which sells stoneware or something under the name now.)
Anyway, after it cools, you dig out the sand inside and voila -- one glass hut. Giving it some thought, I'd probably start the form a couple feet below ground, with a little "spread" at the bottom to provide an anchor in the sand. I can't see how you could make a glass floor, though, at least not at the same time.
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...