We'll Only If you could drive it.
by
fozzy(pro)
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· Score: 4, Funny
Well that great Saunas are coll and all, but it would be much more impressive if it was tricked out with some ground effects, a large spoiler, and of course wifi. Not to mention if it had an engine in it so you coul saun in fornt of the Arc De Triumph, the Whitehouse, Stone Henge
"I'f a brick didn't know hoow to sit on a wall no more; What would you aks it?" -ODB
Re:I'd rather have a jacuzi in my car
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4ntifa
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· Score: 5, Informative
Weather today...
Southern Finland: -6 to -2 Centigrades, sunny (as soon as the sun comes up... only to disappear in a couple of hours... now, at 8AM, it's still pitch black out there) Northern Finland: -23 to -7 Centigrades, half-cloudy (and there's no such thing as the sun, people expect to catch a glimpse of it somewhere around March). (source: Finnish Meteorology Institute / http://www.fmi.fi)
I consider the weather nice and warm. Just last week it was frequently below -20 Centigrades, here in _southern_ Finland. No wonder Hell of the Nordic tales ("Ragnaroek") does freeze over! (not that the Norse mythology was a Finnish thing, we've cooked our own mythos, "Kalevala", which is highly recommendable reading to every Tolkien fan)
Re:just what I always wanted
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joe52
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· Score: 4, Funny
What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.
Going to the sauna with a woman?
Under the Hot Rocks is their Webserver
by
cyber_rigger
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· Score: 4, Funny
This Sauna Heated by the Slashdot Effect
It is obviously...
by
deglr6328
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· Score: 4, Funny
..only a matter of time until an ANTI-SAUNABB is built in order to be smashed into the SAUNABB.
-- - "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
wierd but nice
by
presearch
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· Score: 4, Interesting
It's wierd and all but the woodwork is very nice. I especially like the roof. For most of us writing software all day, it's nice to see things crafted out of steel and wood. Something real, not made from bits that are on the road to being obsolete and forgotten as soon as it's built.
I don't think I'd have carpentry skills but I'm considering getting out of programming and doing something with atoms. Glassblowing seems like it would be fun and rewarding. Certainly more fun than declaring my two millionth variable....
Space sauna? Think: a big, hot, wobbly sphere of water. No, wait, that's a space hot tub -- a space sauna would be a zero-g steam cloud. Oh, man, those cockpit windows are gonna fog like a bitch.
Re:This brings a few questions to mind...
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4ntifa
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· Score: 5, Informative
Lapin Kulta is something I, as a Finn, am quite embarassed of.
It's a nearly tasteless lager which teenagers prefer because it doesn't taste like real beer. Lapin Kulta (translates to "Lappland's Gold") is the most popular Finnish beer. I think that's proof enough that most people's taste (not to mention intelligence) never really matures past teenage.
Personally, I'd recommend Olvi CXX. Much better. Even Karhu ("Bear") will do.
Anyway... any beer, any place and in any circumstances... IS GOOD!!! (especially after sauna)
-- -=- 4ntifa -=-
Culture Shock
by
istartedi
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· Score: 4, Interesting
In Sweden they sit around in artificial steamy heat indoors then plunge into the Winter cold. In Washington DC we walk around in steamy Summer heat and then plunge into artificial cold.
Actually, there is no reason for most Americans (in the South anyway) to have a complex about not being as tech savvy as Swedes because we already have the artificial cold built into the car, and we can drive them.
If the AC isn't cold enough to give small children headaches and fog up your glasses, it's not cold enough, d#$@% it.
Actually, I'm poking good-natured fun at both cultures here. Frankly, the Summer ice-box mentality here in the US is something that I've come to dislike. Not only does it waste a lot of energy, but I've heard some theories that kidney disease has increased because we don't sweat as much as we used to--all the stuff that used to get sweated out gets taken care of by the kidneys and puts more stress on them. I haven't seen any studies to back that up though.
The hot to cold transition that Swedes practice is something I don't think I could tolerate. I've tried turning the shower nozzle to cold, and I could just feel myself starting to go into shock. I guess if I had been doing it from the time I was a little boy that wouldn't happen.
Do most Swedes dunk in ice-cold water after a sauna, or are there some people who can't tolerate it? I think if I went there, I could handle the nudity part, but then I'd have to pass on the cold water which might actually be more embarrassing if everybody else is doing it.
-- For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Re:Culture Shock
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mni12
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· Score: 4, Informative
Not all people jump into ice-cold water after sauna. But there is a small minority who practise that every day. They claim that it is good for your health and in general they tend to avoid flu and cold better compared to folks who don't do it. There is some information about "avantounti" in here. "Avantouinti" is the Finnish word for swimming in ice-cold water (through a hole in the ice).
Re:Culture Shock
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tuoppi
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· Score: 5, Informative
Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna. I've seen horrible examples of this when visiting sweden. Some "saunas" in there are only mildly warm, like +40C only - and people just sit there and read newspapers. Some swe-saunas have air exchange ventilation into room next door, which whill definately cause problems with moisture if the sauna is used properly. Generally it seems, that in those houses that have sauna in sweden, they use it for drying clothes. Drainage has seldom taken care of.
In Finland, we have long traditions of using sauna as a place to sweat the dirt and stress out and wash up. The idea is not to punish and abuse ones body, just to sweat, relax and get clean.
THE SAUNA-HOWTO:
1. Heat up the sauna up to +70C..+100C (up to you) 2. Undress, wash up 3. Climb up to the seats on the sauna (feet above the level of stones in stove) 4. Toss some clean, warm water onto stones. Control the amount of steam up to your liking by tossing more or less water into stove. Keep the moisture up! 5. Sweat for a while, if you feel too hot, step down from the seats and wash the sweat off. Chill down for a while. (Don't go into cold water or snow straight away. Might be bad if you have a heart condition hiding.) 6. When you feel like it, repeat steps 3-5. 7. When you feel that you are ready, wash up well. 8. Dry yourself, take some time relaxing and cooling down before dressing up.
Remember to drink alot of water to replace the water you lost by sweating!
And for you who live in hot climate: after sauna, that heat outside doesn't feel that hot anymore.
Re:Culture Shock
by
Idarubicin
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· Score: 4, Funny
Not all people jump into ice-cold water after sauna. But there is a small minority who practise that every day. They claim that it is good for your health and in general they tend to avoid flu and cold better compared to folks who don't do it.
They tend to better resist colds and the flue because all the weak ones were killed by this treatment a long time ago.
a) A lot of steam...
b) An engine hot enough to cook food
I could thing of a couple of other cars that almost come equipped like this anyways... perhaps a kia?
In all seriousness though, what can you do with a trashed out rusty car... other than sticking it in a junkyard to be made into a trash-compacted cube? A sauna sounds like a pretty cool idea... makes me wonder what other things one could do with a car. Perhaps if they had a convertible... a hot-tub?
For some old vehicles which have suffered accidents... you have a body which is slightly mangled (maybe not drivable) but not too bad, and a working engine. The engine can be a power source... a heat source... whatever.
When not moving, many cars can run for hours while using very little gas... many around here become portable entertainment centers (big stereos) for bush parties, etc.
Sooooo... how many people can think of alternate uses for these cars. If it's not too crazy, be inventive, and we've got a lot of ingenious people out there. I've got an old '88 Toyota that still runs quite well, although the body is shite. I might consider donating it if it doesn't sell and somebody can think of something cool for it?
Well,
I'm one of the proud builders. We, who built the SAUNAAB live far, far, far away from the nordic countries. At least almost 2000km (more than 1000 miles) away at least. So, since we miss our saunas soooo much, we just had to build one.
The reason for it to end up in a SAAB is that one of the guys own more than 20 SAAB's already and one was up for the scrap yard (as Nordics we usually take care of this, not leaving it for coming generations in the back yard.;=) ). We kind of thought of it as a cool idea. All work was done late evenings and week ends. No unemployment here... We have to take care of those anti matter particles daytime, you know.
Well, the SAUNA experience in the SAAB is very good. The steam hits you harder in the small volume the SAAB offers than in bigger saunas.
Anyone nearby Geneva is welcome to have a look.;=)//magnus
It reminds me of the sauna-game "Jokka". You take 6 people and a case of vodka, pour the vodka on the sauna - and wait a while. Afterwards someone leaves the sauna and the rest has to guess who!
This game can be played by two players as well, but it requires more vokda!
-- -.sig sauer-
Finland Finland Finland.....
by
bobdotorg
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· Score: 4, Funny
Ahhhhh.... Makes me yearn for the days when I was a professor in Finland.
I had a sauna in my apartment, and my students taught me an old Finnish custom - turn the sauna up to about 105 (that's C), and stay in until you can't stand it any more. Then run outside and flop in the snow until you can't stand it any more. Then return to the sauna. Repeat as necessary.
-- __
Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Slashdot Mirror
Well that great Saunas are coll and all, but it would be much more impressive if it was tricked out with some ground effects, a large spoiler, and of course wifi. Not to mention if it had an engine in it so you coul saun in fornt of the Arc De Triumph, the Whitehouse, Stone Henge
"I'f a brick didn't know hoow to sit on a wall no more; What would you aks it?" -ODB
This is what you get when you have a high-unemployment rate in the tech business...
3 or 4 years ago, this would have had several million dollars of venture capital behind it!
Get yer mirror here.
Who wants a sauna, honestly? You might as well just get a car without air conditioning.
Repeal the DMCA!
I did the same thing with a dodge aries, except it was a lot cheaper as all i had to do was drive it around during the summer.
You clearly have never been in Finland (or Sweden). This is what we do for fun.
C'mon...it is dark and miserably 6 months a year. What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.
MONSTER GARAGE!!
This is definitely not the first mobile sauna.
I used one some 20 years ago while I was a student in the Helsinki University of Technology.
There are lot of these in Finland.
What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.
Going to the sauna with a woman?
This Sauna Heated by the Slashdot Effect
..only a matter of time until an ANTI-SAUNABB is built in order to be smashed into the SAUNABB.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
It's wierd and all but the woodwork is very nice.
I especially like the roof. For most of us writing
software all day, it's nice to see things crafted
out of steel and wood. Something real, not made
from bits that are on the road to being obsolete
and forgotten as soon as it's built.
I don't think I'd have carpentry skills but I'm considering
getting out of programming and doing something with
atoms. Glassblowing seems like it would be fun and
rewarding. Certainly more fun than declaring my two
millionth variable....
Nice work guys.
we should have a sauna in the space shuttle
Space sauna? Think: a big, hot, wobbly sphere of water. No, wait, that's a space hot tub -- a space sauna would be a zero-g steam cloud. Oh, man, those cockpit windows are gonna fog like a bitch.
Lapin Kulta is something I, as a Finn, am quite embarassed of.
It's a nearly tasteless lager which teenagers prefer because it doesn't taste like real beer. Lapin Kulta (translates to "Lappland's Gold") is the most popular Finnish beer. I think that's proof enough that most people's taste (not to mention intelligence) never really matures past teenage.
Personally, I'd recommend Olvi CXX. Much better. Even Karhu ("Bear") will do.
Anyway... any beer, any place and in any circumstances... IS GOOD!!! (especially after sauna)
-=- 4ntifa -=-
In Sweden they sit around in artificial steamy heat indoors then plunge into the Winter cold. In Washington DC we walk around in steamy Summer heat and then plunge into artificial cold.
Actually, there is no reason for most Americans (in the South anyway) to have a complex about not being as tech savvy as Swedes because we already have the artificial cold built into the car, and we can drive them.
If the AC isn't cold enough to give small children headaches and fog up your glasses, it's not cold enough, d#$@% it.
Actually, I'm poking good-natured fun at both cultures here. Frankly, the Summer ice-box mentality here in the US is something that I've come to dislike. Not only does it waste a lot of energy, but I've heard some theories that kidney disease has increased because we don't sweat as much as we used to--all the stuff that used to get sweated out gets taken care of by the kidneys and puts more stress on them. I haven't seen any studies to back that up though.
The hot to cold transition that Swedes practice is something I don't think I could tolerate. I've tried turning the shower nozzle to cold, and I could just feel myself starting to go into shock. I guess if I had been doing it from the time I was a little boy that wouldn't happen.
Do most Swedes dunk in ice-cold water after a sauna, or are there some people who can't tolerate it? I think if I went there, I could handle the nudity part, but then I'd have to pass on the cold water which might actually be more embarrassing if everybody else is doing it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
a) A lot of steam...
b) An engine hot enough to cook food
I could thing of a couple of other cars that almost come equipped like this anyways... perhaps a kia?
In all seriousness though, what can you do with a trashed out rusty car... other than sticking it in a junkyard to be made into a trash-compacted cube? A sauna sounds like a pretty cool idea... makes me wonder what other things one could do with a car. Perhaps if they had a convertible... a hot-tub?
For some old vehicles which have suffered accidents... you have a body which is slightly mangled (maybe not drivable) but not too bad, and a working engine. The engine can be a power source... a heat source... whatever.
When not moving, many cars can run for hours while using very little gas... many around here become portable entertainment centers (big stereos) for bush parties, etc.
Sooooo... how many people can think of alternate uses for these cars. If it's not too crazy, be inventive, and we've got a lot of ingenious people out there. I've got an old '88 Toyota that still runs quite well, although the body is shite. I might consider donating it if it doesn't sell and somebody can think of something cool for it?
This looks like something you would see at the state fair. At least in Oklahoma anyway ;D
Yeah, where you'd have all these people standing around asking "What the fuck is a SAAB ??"
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Well, I'm one of the proud builders. We, who built the SAUNAAB live far, far, far away from the nordic countries. At least almost 2000km (more than 1000 miles) away at least. So, since we miss our saunas soooo much, we just had to build one. The reason for it to end up in a SAAB is that one of the guys own more than 20 SAAB's already and one was up for the scrap yard (as Nordics we usually take care of this, not leaving it for coming generations in the back yard. ;=) ). We kind of thought of it as a cool idea. All work was done late evenings and week ends. No unemployment here... We have to take care of those anti matter particles daytime, you know.
Well, the SAUNA experience in the SAAB is very good. The steam hits you harder in the small volume the SAAB offers than in bigger saunas.
Anyone nearby Geneva is welcome to have a look. ;=) //magnus
It reminds me of the sauna-game "Jokka". You take 6 people and a case of vodka, pour the vodka on the sauna - and wait a while. Afterwards someone leaves the sauna and the rest has to guess who!
This game can be played by two players as well, but it requires more vokda!
-.sig sauer-
Ahhhhh.... Makes me yearn for the days when I was a professor in Finland.
I had a sauna in my apartment, and my students taught me an old Finnish custom - turn the sauna up to about 105 (that's C), and stay in until you can't stand it any more. Then run outside and flop in the snow until you can't stand it any more. Then return to the sauna. Repeat as necessary.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.