Advances in bionics, transportation, and other technologies have put comic book superheroes a little closer to reality. This collection of videos looks at a few ways we can achieve “super powersâ€. Link -via Reddit
Those powerisers are incredible. Like super moon shoes. I'd hate to fall on my head after a jump. They remind me of that episode of "Malcolm In The Middle" where Hal wanted one of the prizes in a fundraiser catalogue. Spring-shoes were one of them... Oh, the fun he had -- in his imagination!
Chernobyl got a lot of press. I'll bet the heroes are still in hiding. But there's more than one way to get super powers.
My husband loves to entertain the kids with the throwing boiling water into the freezing cold. None of it even hits the ground! I'm going to mention the banana trick. The kids would love that.
I used to work in Milwaukee, which is cold (though not as cold as some of these other places) and schools and offices didn't closed even when I'd be walking through knee high ice and snow to get to work. My former coworkers still had work this past week. Now in Virginia... it was drizzling at 35F not too long ago (yes, 35 on the positive side) and most of the schools and plenty offices closed and everyone's tossing salt every which way because of the POSSIBILITY of sleet. Turned out, water stays liquid when the temperature doesn't go below freezing. Who'da thunk?
Perhaps the banana test should be the defining factor on closings...
I grew up 150 miles north of Minneapolis, where it's much colder. There's nothing like that feeling of snot freezing inside your nasal passages when you breathe.
JM, while I sympathize completely with your car woe, I did think it sounded hilarious when I read your post. It's good to have a postive attitude about these things. Good luck with the repairs adn everybody stay warm (11 degrees in NYC right now)
I live about an hour and half south of Minneapolis and it was -36 this morning when I woke up. They have cancelled school around the state the past two days because it's so cold! There's nothing like walking from your car into work and feeling your sinuses freezing along the way. Ahhh, winter....
Pussies! -14F is nothing, where I come from we regularly have temperatures below -22F, even as far as -40F at times. Add windchill to that and -14F is a bloody cakewalk, almost like shorts weather.
It sublimates. The hot liquid water breaks up into ice crystals and then much of that goes directly into a gas state. That part which doesn't falls as snow.
It's almost the same thing that happens when you hang wet clothes out in winter. They freeze, and then they dry as the ice goes from a solid directly to a gas without passing thru the water state.
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Chernobyl got a lot of press. I'll bet the heroes are still in hiding. But there's more than one way to get super powers.
Thanks for that one.
and they should have had sven. oh well!
never seen -51 before :O
It's -45f with the windchill right now.
The other day it was -61f with the windchill.
Perhaps the banana test should be the defining factor on closings...
Hot water trick is always fun
It sublimates. The hot liquid water breaks up into ice crystals and then much of that goes directly into a gas state. That part which doesn't falls as snow.
It's almost the same thing that happens when you hang wet clothes out in winter. They freeze, and then they dry as the ice goes from a solid directly to a gas without passing thru the water state.
Sublimation.
Neat huh?