3 things I learnt this week:
-I have lots and lots of notebooks
- A Rubik's Cube is quite difficult to solve
-You can do some really, really, awesome things with HTML5 (and it doesn't have an annoying space like shoddy old HTML 4)
One of the notebooks is just page after page of questions that I have randomly thought of and written down to research. So, in a fit of procrastination today over yet more work I should really be doing, I decided to research the first question.
Why shouldn't you paint smoke alarms?
Yes, I know, not the most intelligent of starting questions, but nearly every one seems to have a "DO NOT PAINT" label. Anyway, off to Google.
Looking here it seems that the main problem is that it could block the vents. Now that's a little disappointing. I was expecting something much cooler. Like it would somehow interfere with the alpha radiation in the alarm. (Yes, radiation. Don't worry. It can't get through paper. It's not going to get through your plastic smoke alarm)
Apparently the solution, if one ever has need to paint a smoke alarm, is to remove the cover and paint that.
Yet another useless fact that I never needed to know. All in the name of science.
~Malia
Lyrics: Magdalena by Brandon Flowers
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