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Build Your Own Snow Gun

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bury-your-annoying-neighbors dept.

ksyrium writes "A TV station in Boston has been kind enough to provide a list of what you need to build your own snow gun, as well as plenty of video, pictures and links to other sites devoted to at-home snowmaking!"

206 comments

  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can't see snow being an effective offensive weapon. Maybe if you used ice, but then, it wouldn't be a snow gun, it'd be an ice gun.

    Sheesh. I think I'll stick to potato guns. Spuds at extreme speeds can kill! Think safety!

    1. Re:Why? by sixdotoh · · Score: 2, Funny

      then you obviously haven't been in a good snowball fight . . . the wetness factor can be particularly effective even if they aren't that hard, but if you pack them good . ..

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    2. Re:Why? by mattfish · · Score: 2, Funny

      I will take credit for actually shooting a hole threw a stop sign with my potato gun. They are way better then a snow gun. The gun needs to inflict some damage

    3. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      RFTA - you've got it backward. This is about a gun to be used against snow (eliminating it).

      While there are civic and industrial applications, it still seems violent and cruel to me (you'll probably mod me down if you're a gun nut, but I just don't trust or like them). Plus I had thought that sensitive book depictions like Smilla's Sense of Snow or even movies like Jack Frost (not the serial killer one) would have made people a little bit more enlightened about snow. It's more scared of you than you are of it, but a couple of avalanche tragedies in Canada, nerves fray and suddenly things are at the melting point.

      As a skier and general proponent of outdoor winter sports (not to mention aesthetics), I hope we can learn to coexist with snow. But out-and-out assaults like this are disheartening (and don't even get me started on the phase genocide of global warming).

    4. Re:Why? by wolf2q · · Score: 1

      I don't need no stinking snow gun.....
      Just come up here to Northern Ontario....
      You die...snow++ and -40 (NO WIMPY CHILL FACTOR)....
      If you don't die right away, the wolves eat you or the Polar Bears or the cold and hungry trappers or ....
      Well, you get the pic..

      LOL

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    5. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      real snowmaking equipment,

      http://www.yorkneige.com/english/f22-materiel.ht m

    6. Re:Why? by Alphtoo · · Score: 1

      I have no use, whatsoever, for snow. I live in the South, and we don't get much of it down here, but we still get more than I want. What would be useful to me is one of those subsonic, megaphone looking devices that can rattle your bones and make your lunch wind up on your shoes. That way, when some a**hole pulls up beside me on the road, blowing vile rap shit out at 200 watts per chanel, bass boost on full, I could out-bass him. Damn, that would be fun! Any of you folks got the specs on how to build one of those?

    7. Re:Why? by Alphtoo · · Score: 1

      Fuck snow! (damn, that wouldn't be fun,would it?) If I never see another snow, it'll be to soon. I hate that shit. God made snow to punish yankees, and most of them are too stupid to realize that they're being punished. The only pleasure I get from snow is watching on television where some dumbass in Boston (or somewhere up there) is trying to figure out which snow pile his car is buried under.

  2. God's snow gun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is dumping snow all over me as I type.

  3. what's that smell? by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh yeah, my karma :) C'mon 6th post, lucky number six, woo hoo

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    1. Re:what's that smell? by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 1

      Damn, 7th post. Stupid 1 post per 2 minute limit. I almost had it...

      Anyhow, I guess the whole snow-gun thing might appeal to you USians, but if you really want, I'll send you some of the white stuff we gots up here in Canucka :)

      I heard that snow is expensive down there and there are special snow making businesses that make your yard snowy for parties - tell you what, i'll sell you some for $5 USD per cubic foot plus shipping and handling. Note that some settling may occur during shipping. *cough*and melting *cough*

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    2. Re:what's that smell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's a good idea, but... cubic FOOT?! That should be Megafarad per Pascalsecond! Learn to use the SI, damnit!!!!

  4. yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I remember seeing this on TV. 2 years ago.

  5. hmm... by Kalewa · · Score: 5, Funny
    8. Remember to dress properly for snowmaking.

    ...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.

    1. Re:hmm... by Patrick13 · · Score: 1

      ...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.

      Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, i don't think your snow machine will be making very much snow. Ever eaten ice cream in June? I think you'll end up with a sprinkler. :)

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    2. Re:hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1. Quick-connect for air hose
      2. 3/8" ball valve (female-female)
      3. 3/8" x 2" nipple
      4. 3/8" T
      5. 3/8" x 5" nipple
      6. 3/8" pipe cap (drill 3/32" hole for mist to escape)
      7. 3/8" 3" nipple
      8. 3/8" ball valve (female-female)
      9. 3/8" x 6" nipple
      10. 1/2" to 3/8" reducer
      11. 1/2" x 6" nipple
      12. 1/2" - 3/4" hose adapter


      huh huh. you said nipple. And hose! and ball... and female!
    3. Re:hmm... by bluGill · · Score: 1

      You are probably right, but but are you positive? These guns use compressed air, and when you relase compressed air at room tempature it cools down. This is exactly the same principal that air conditioners use, though air conditioners involve a phase shift for more efficency. So it is possiable that you get can get snow from this machine on a hot summer day, if you adjust it right.

      Of course since this is less efficant than a phase change cooling, you won't get much snow, you could end up with some.

    4. Re:hmm... by rjch · · Score: 1
      8. Remember to dress properly for snowmaking.

      ...because otherwise you could end up on record as the strangest death ever - dying in a blizzard in your back yard in June.
      Haven't you ever wanted to end up as a candidate for The Darwin Awards?
  6. Snow gun. Bah. by bigfox · · Score: 0

    I want real weapons

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  7. Just what I need! by snitty · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a perfect idea for those of you in the northeast of the US who just can't get enough snow, especially this winter (-:

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    1. Re:Just what I need! by zer0vector · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think a better answer is: "I've already got 12 inches of snow on the ground you insensitive clod!"

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  8. Vegtable Power by sixdotoh · · Score: 1

    potato guns are cooler though . . . i mean come on the mere thought of launghing potatoes is just funny. way funnier than white powdery stuff that is traditionally thrown around anyway.

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    1. Re:Vegtable Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good god man, what the hell is that word? LAUNGHING?!

    2. Re:Vegtable Power by sixdotoh · · Score: 1

      launghing:
      This is defined by Websters dictionary (73.2 edition) as means of projecting a tuborous, organic object into the atmosphere while causing immense amusement to both the launchers and observers.

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    3. Re:Vegtable Power by sixdotoh · · Score: 1
      as a side note, i did learn a *real* word the other day in the dictionary while looking up something totally unrelated: mephitis

      go look it up, it's interesting . . .

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    4. Re:Vegtable Power by modecx · · Score: 1

      Just a couple days ago I was thinking it would be fun to make a similar device--to be used in evil ways, of course!

      It would be used to coat your least-favorite cow-orker's car with a generous layer of solid ice. Now, THAT would be funny!

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    5. Re:Vegtable Power by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 1

      mephitis

      go look it up, it's interesting . . .

      So that would qualify as the CowboyNeal option, no?

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  9. I live in the North East by purduephotog · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I've got enough *$()#%*# snow so that anyone that wants it can come pick it up. Seriously. That stupid blizzard cracked my rafters, backed up ice dams, caused me to scramble to move all my computer gear out of the room that had an stalagtite of ice hanging down in it, and really annoyed the hell out of me with my 250$ heating bill (I keep my house at 58F!).

    So needless to say, unless this article describes how to build a snow MELTING gun, I don't any more of that white stuff in my neighborhood. Hell I can't even see out of my driveway- the drifts are up 6 foot now.

    *grumble*

    1. Re:I live in the North East by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 1, Funny
      So needless to say, unless this article describes how to build a snow MELTING gun,


      I'll sell you one. I have a Conair snow melting gun. $200 USD plus shipping and handling. It's also good for drying things, like hair.
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    2. Re:I live in the North East by Tycho · · Score: 0

      Yeah well I live in Minnesota and there is one inch of snow left on the ground and even that is busy being melted.

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    3. Re:I live in the North East by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Redundant? I'll show you redundant!

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    4. Re:I live in the North East by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Redundant? I will show you redundant!

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    5. Re:I live in the North East by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dr Pepper? I'll show you Dr Pepper!

    6. Re:I live in the North East by norweigiantroll · · Score: 1

      Can you send some of it to LA? We don't have snow (or a heater, for that matter.)

    7. Re:I live in the North East by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Global warming is a bitch.

    8. Re:I live in the North East by kfg · · Score: 1

      Which blizzard was that, the first one, the second one, the seventh one? 6 foot, Cor, you have it lucky. I've never seen so much bloody snow. Every day it comes down, more, more, ever more.

      I'm still putting my electronics gear back together after the snow ripped out a window, frame and all, and filled my home with bloody white stuff.

      "Hey, how what did you do today?"

      "I shoveled out my house."

      "Yeah, me too. That's what we all did today."

      "No, you don't understand. I shoveled out my *house*."

      Then the water pipes gave up. Arrrrrrrrrrgh!

      A day of shoveling followed by a day of bailing.

      I never want to see snow again. Most of this winter it's been colder here in upstate NY than in Anchorage Alaska. I need to move there for the "good" weather. Who woulda thunk it?

      I used to live a few miles from Bromely Mountain in Vermont where they invented the snow gun.

      I think I'll send them some friendly hate mail tomorrow.

      KFG

    9. Re:I live in the North East by kendric · · Score: 3, Funny

      A snow melting gun... I can tell you how to make one of those. It is a flamethrower that burns at a lower temperature and for much longer to help get rid of the snow.

      Here is what you need:
      gasoline
      lighter (zippo)
      styofoam
      water gun (super soaker works best)
      balls of steel

      You take the styofoam and mix it with the gasoline, and in doing create a much more viscous subtance that has a lower burning temp, but burns for much longer. After adding about 5 times as much syrofoam as gas, you should have some goo that will be perfect for snow removal.

      Take the goo and put it into the water gun. Now you have a way of dispersing the propellent, but in order to light it one should place the lighter right past the nozzel and light it up. That will help melt your snow. Be warned, this can burn for a long while, so make sure you have a lot of snow.

      This is great for cleaning off a sidewalk or making a quick snow fort, just point to where you want no snow, and in a period of a few minutes, there will be none.

    10. Re:I live in the North East by caferace · · Score: 1
      L.A. gets plenty of snow. See, there are these mountains handy. In fact, I'm guessing if you look in the morning you'll actually see this white stuff at the top of them (unless it's a brutally smoggy day). That would be snow.

      -jim

      (who used to amuse himself by skiing in Big Bear and surfing in Huntington Beach on the same day)

    11. Re:I live in the North East by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Less snow would probably increase your heating bill.
      Snow is a pretty good natural insulator, so snow on your roof would actually keep some of the heat from dissipating from your house (heat has a tendency to rise you know).

    12. Re:I live in the North East by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And how long time until you get cancer for inhaling the fumes from this mixture?

    13. Re:I live in the North East by DigitalDad · · Score: 1

      Amen! I also live in "Upstate" NY (between Syracuse & Rochester - Central NY actually) about 30 miles south of Lake Onterio where not only do we get the wonderful storms that come up the east coast, if the wind changes, we get serious lake effect snows. The snow drifts are so high on some of the roads around here that the snow plows have had to double-cut the banks on the side of the road and clear the road signs because the banks are higher then them.

      Yea, I like snow, love the different seasons, but I don't want to see it before Thanksgiving and am tired of shoveling, plowing, snow blowing, looking at and driving in it by mid-January.

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    14. Re:I live in the North East by pben · · Score: 1

      Wisconsin declared a non-snow emergency about a month ago. It seems that we have had so little snow for the second year in a row that business that depend on snow are going under.

      Well my experiment with Wisconsin is over I am heeding back South. I am sure that the weather will return to normal starting next month.

    15. Re:I live in the North East by exhilaration · · Score: 1
      Hey, you suppose that's legal? Is there any residue left or will it burn cleanly, like regular gasoline?

      I'm being extremely serious here - I'm in New Jersey, and being surrounded by walls of snow forces one to consider unorthodox options to eliminate it.

      All you might be breaking are some environmental laws, and as long as you don't set trees on fire you should be fine, right?

  10. On the heels of this ?!? by jhouserizer · · Score: 1

    http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-a p-snowball-shooting0225feb25,0,2226125.story?coll= sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

    1. Re:On the heels of this ?!? by jhouserizer · · Score: 1

      ...Wooops, I suck... here's a better link: Snowball Fight Shooting

    2. Re:On the heels of this ?!? by bluesoul88 · · Score: 1

      I read about that yesterday, nice guy, no?

      And yes, you do suck. =)

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  11. Re:son of a bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are you often annoyed, sir?

    Feel like slitting someone's throat? Beating someone up? Getting a gun and just shooting the fuck out of the nearest six people?

  12. No refrideration system?! by Powercntrl · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sheesh... Without any way to freeze the water, here in Florida it'll just be a glorified sprinkler. I already have enough of those.

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    1. Re:No refrideration system?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      PV=NRT

    2. Re:No refrideration system?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      PV=???
      NRT=???

      WTF?

  13. I have a dream. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I hope one day to start squashdork.org. I was thinking I could import the previous day's slashdot content but invert all the moderations so that insightful posts like the parent post and random ASCII goatse posts were modded +5 Interesting and all the posts linked to some kind of detailed analysis of guns that shoot other kinds of things would be modded down so as not to bother anyone.

    Thank you.

    1. Re:I have a dream. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's the coolest thing I've ever heard. If you ever build it, you'll be like, god, or something. The trolls of the world will unite and name you as their leader! There will be giant parades in the streets and virgin sacrifices and shit!

    2. Re:I have a dream. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, that's right. CowboyKneel will be sacrificed to the troll god.

  14. Texas by The+Salamander · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a friend who made one of these... but for use in Texas.

    As I recall, it involved a very large tank of liquid nitrogen to freeze the water as it left the nozzle.

    Unfortunately, the nozzle kept clogging before very much snow could be made.

    That and snow never sticks here.

  15. Like I said last thread by (1337)+God · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like I said in the last thread, Americans have an unnatural and dangerous thirst for blood and gore.

    First the Vice City sales of 8.5 million in a mere 3 months. Then we're reading about this snow gun.

    What's next, the bombing of an innocent Middle Eastern country just for the hell of it?

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    1. Re:Like I said last thread by bluesoul88 · · Score: 1

      By god, that's brilliant! Where do you come up with this shit?

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    2. Re:Like I said last thread by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 1

      He has a holy ghost writer. Hyuk, as Jughead would say.

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    3. Re:Like I said last thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      You must be thinking of a different Middle East if you think anyone is innocent.

    4. Re:Like I said last thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You must be thinking of another west if you
      think that generalities like that justify war!

    5. Re:Like I said last thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's next, the bombing of an innocent Middle Eastern country just for the hell of it?

      Innocent? Maybe not deserving of a bombing, but certainly not innocent. Just ask those 3 million dead Kurds.

  16. White House blames terrorists for snow by ediron2 · · Score: 4, Funny
    In other news, several terrorist cells are suspected of being responsible for the snowstorms that have crippled the eastern US over the last few weeks.

    A high-ranking White House official with a predisposition for overreacting and fascist rulemaking has blamed the ready availability of instructions for snow-guns on the internet, and has asked that so-called weathermen stop presenting contradictory explanations for these terrorist incidents. The same official also insisted that anyone that discounts his theory is practicing poor science and harming the US's ability to combat terrorism wherever he sees it.

    Factions such as the Weather Underground and the Internet Storm Center are high on his list of targeted terrorist groups.

    1. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 0

      Now that was funny. I can't give you karma, but i'll be your fan. Bask in the adulation. Go ahead, I don't mind.

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    2. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That would have been funny had I not seen Conan last night.

    3. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now that was funny.

      I agree, and the mouthfull of tea dripping out of my nose at the momment would agree too. heh.

    4. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by ediron2 · · Score: 1

      What happened on conan? Or are you just going to depress me... nah, either way, I'm concerned now. What up?

    5. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 2, Funny
      No worries. The government will be sidetracked by the snow bongs.

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    6. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by rjamestaylor · · Score: 2, Interesting
      • Factions such as the Weather Underground . . . are high on his list of targeted terrorist groups.
      This is funnier than you might have thought -- the Weather Underground was a name for a violent terrorist group in the 1960's. They started out as Students for Democratic Society. Interesting reading, BTW. (As an aside, many of the anti-war protest leaders can trace their roots to this organization.)
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    7. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by CableModemSniper · · Score: 1

      *cough*daily show*cough*

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    8. Re:White House blames terrorists for snow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well... it is a suspicious white powder.

  17. I'd give it 10 minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    10 minutes until slashdot comes under DOJ control for linking to a terroristic site!

  18. global warming by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 1

    if this becomes popular, we can forget about that global warming thing... however, a perpetual global winter wonderland can't be a good thing either. oh well, screw the globe, us here in Berkeley can finally have snow.
    The temptation to misuse this must be over the top. I can imagine dorm rooms and frat parties filled with snow. Imagine waking up under 2 feet of snow in your dorm room. hehe, college is going to be fun after all!

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    1. Re:global warming by McCrapDeluxe · · Score: 1

      Note that cooling systems don't generate cold, but rather move heat. Since they must be generate waste energy (2nd Law of Thermodynamics), such machines would actually increase warming.

    2. Re:global warming by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 1

      yes, I'm aware of that, I was merely joking, as you might have suspected.

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    3. Re:global warming by daniellabee · · Score: 0

      >>The temptation to misuse this must be over the top. I can imagine dorm rooms and frat parties filled with snow. Imagine waking up under 2 feet of snow in your dorm room. hehe, college is going to be fun after all!

      I don't have to imagine waking up under snow in my dorm room. With my bed under my window(only place to put it in the room) which is currently broken and doesn't close all the way, I have woken up under snow a couple of times. And the worst part is it doesn't melt because the heat is always broken. Not my idea of a good nights sleep. I just hope I don't wake up one morning and find my poor fish in a block of ice.

  19. Thanks, buddy. by bluesoul88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some asshat beaned the hell out of me with a snowball today. Turns out it was one of these beasts. And to think, I wondered where idiots like him could go to find how to make one of these stupid things. Thanks, guys! >=(

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  20. Does this mean... by Quaoar · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that all those cocaine dealers in South Central are going to go out of business?

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  21. November 28th 2001??? by dennism · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was wondering why I hadn't seen anything on the news about this... hell, I'm watching the news right now. I guess I should've figured that since it's slashdot, it's "Old News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered"

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  22. Unique Shako by wastingtape · · Score: 1

    Now all i'll need is a green unique shako to give me +2 all skills!

    1. Re:Unique Shako by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      AHAHAHAHA... I don't know what that has to do with the topic, but I always enjoy a good Diablo II joke.

  23. Wow by LongJohnStewartMill · · Score: 1

    at-home snowmaking

    Those pictures are great. I've always wanted to see a yard with freezer burn. Seriously, that's what it looks like. =)

  24. Re:On the heels of this ?!? LINK by dannyweb · · Score: 1

    http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-a p-snowball-shooting0225feb25,0,2226125.story?coll= sns-ap-nationworld-headlines - Link, of a URL that actually works!

  25. Re:crap alert...michael is at it again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please post links to pictures of barefoot girls to make up for the story crapness. I need some good a-jizzing before I go to bed tonight. Thanks!

  26. Judging by the reccent weather... by Traicovn · · Score: 1

    Judging by the reccent weather in the Northeast will anybody actually have to make one of these?
    Although, maybe I could make a snowstorm around my office and then not have to come to work?
    hehehe...

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  27. Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who was reminded immediately of this after seeing the words "snow gun?"

    1. Re:Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, them lesbo bitches need to calm down a bit if they can't handle seeing a bit of cock. Sheesh.

  28. Re:crap alert...michael is at it again. by corsec67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brace yourselves for another 10 stories in a row on how to piss in your pants without anyone knowing ... I recomend the easy leaker for that.

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  29. Speaking as a Canadian... by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 0

    I have to say, you Americans are sick. I mean, making snow? On purpose?

    Up here in Canada, the only thing worst than the snow is the random moose attacks...

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    1. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh, I am totally getting bitchslapped by the mods. C'mon, Spacemoose is funny, what's yer problem?

    2. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I support you fellow Spacemoose reader, however, I have no mod points.

    3. Re:Speaking as a Canadian... by weeboo0104 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can make yellow snow...

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  30. Rats by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1

    All I'm missing is some snow! (Being in Orange County, CA doesn't help)

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  31. Screw at home...try it the real way... by djupedal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was part of a team responsible for snow making at a resort in the Sierras. We had a man-made resevior that held 1 million gallons. Took 14 hours to fill and 10 hours to drain when making snow. The snow that came out of the nozzles was perfect...

    I came to work one morning, only to be greated with a plume of smoke from the compressor shack. Seems one of the aftercoolers sprung a leak, and ATF was being fed into the input for the main airstream. Imagine the cycle of death as the heat grew and grew and the ATF finally ignited. All the while being circulated and compressed....

    The local volunteers put out the fire, but they left the smoldering air filters in place, and I had to take action to see that everything was truly under control, and then find a way to be back in business for making more snow asap.

    We arranged for two giant portable Ingersol Rand compressors (12 cyl. supercharged Detriot Diesels) to be trucked in and set up as close to the manifold system as possible. Lots of fun with snow cats and blocks, etc. The bandaids did the job, and we were back to making snow in two days. The ski area was waiting for insurance to pay for the rental compressors, but the contractor wanted them back... I was ordered to hide the wheels and tires long enough to stall. Eight mounted sets of wheels/tires were placed into the area manager's pickup truck bed and covered with snow. He drove around for two weeks, and kept asking me where they were.... a man has to know his options.

    1. Re:Screw at home...try it the real way... by bodland · · Score: 1

      I too made snow. At a small resort in Northern WIsconsin. I was on the early season crew. Then when the hill opened I was on the Ski Patrol. Making snow late at night atop a hill with the guns blazing in the clear night sky was one of the most strangely peaceful moments in my life. I stood watching spray from the gun in sub-zero weather. Completely bundled in a heavy parka, air force bunny boots etc. We had a problem in that we had no holding pond. The water temp was at 50 degrees out of the nozzles and it put us at a distinct disadvantage in that we had to have significantly colder air temps to make good snow. We did'nt get good results until it was below 10 degrees f... There is a bit of art to making good snow...balancing the air pressure, water temp and pressure...you can't just mix them all and expect to make quality snow... Also it has to cure...after making it it needs to drain the excess water of and setup for a day or so.

  32. before the /. effect sets in... by iosmart · · Score: 0

    here's a mirror of the "pictures" link:
    http://www.pchopper.com/mirror/www.weatherman.com/ snowmaking.html

  33. Snow not so bad after all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Finally, the solution to:

    1. Wait for it to snow
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  34. and for lazy rich people: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    here's a guy who can make snow when its 90 degrees outside

  35. whasamatta Cartman? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did your mom tell your dad about how you missed school because you lost your Ethiopian, again?

  36. Class, by sixdotoh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't think we need the reminder but . . . In Soviet Russia, snow gun's shoot YOU!

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  37. Want to impress me? by bigt_littleodd · · Score: 5, Funny
    Make it run backwards!

    Living through what will look like about 30"+ of snow in 28 days this month, a snow gun is pretty low on my list of priorities.

    At least until I buy my snowthrower machine, anyway.
    Maybe Home Depot will have one by July. :-)

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    1. Re:Want to impress me? by Speed+Racer · · Score: 1

      Living through what will look like about 30"+ of snow in 28 days this month

      Bah! That's nothing. We got that much snow in 24 hours here. . . Oh yeah, blah, blah, blah, uphill both ways, blah, blah, blah.

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    2. Re:Want to impress me? by bluGill · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Move to a different area. I live in Minnesota, and we have half our normal amount of snow. And since MN is north, and normally gets a lot of snow, we are not only better equiped to handle that much snow that many of those who got it, we also enjoy it. Many of my friends are complaining about lack of snow because they can't play in it. Since we normally have snow, expensive snow toys (snowmobiles) are worth the cost if you enjoy it.

    3. Re:Want to impress me? by kchayer · · Score: 1
      Move to a different area. I live in Minnesota, and we have half our normal amount of snow. And since MN is north, and normally gets a lot of snow, we are not only better equiped to handle that much snow that many of those who got it, we also enjoy it. Many of my friends are complaining about lack of snow because they can't play in it. Since we normally have snow, expensive snow toys (snowmobiles) are worth the cost if you enjoy it.

      Yeah, no joke! I live in Alaska, and here in Anchorage we've had maybe three snowstorms this year. I don't think it's been below freezing during the day for a month! For cryin' out loud! I moved up here for snow and cold!

      'Course, if this year makes up for the weenie winter like last year did (fairly mild winter, but not as mild as this one, but we received a 30 inch snowfall *overnight* a few weeks before Easter) we're due for about 10 feet within a few weeks. Don't I wish...

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      "Tomorrow we'll seize the day and throttle it!" -Calvin
  38. stalagtite? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stalagmite, stalactite.

    Stalagmites grow upwards, from the Ground. G for ground, stalagmite.

    Stalactites grow downwards, from the Ceiling. C for ceiling, stalactite.

    Oh, and M is for Mnemonic.

    This post brought to you by Stalag 17. (Hogaaaan!)

    1. Re:stalagtite? by scotch · · Score: 1

      Also, both sthey're both made out of rock and not water, but who's counting?

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    2. Re:stalagtite? by GreatOgre · · Score: 1

      The one I seem to remember is:

      Stalagmites might grow from the ceiling, but they don't.

    3. Re:stalagtite? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      Thank you so much for that imagery. You get a moderation of (-5) Gross.

    4. Re:stalagtite? by drauh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Nono. Look at the M -- it looks like a stalagMite. And the T -- the vertical part looks like a stalacTite.

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    5. Re:stalagtite? by mechugena · · Score: 1

      Easiest way to remember is with tights (the kind you wear on your legs) and mites (those little bugs)...

      The mites (stalagmites) go up your legs and the tights (stalactites) come down so you can scratch them.

    6. Re:stalagtite? by Duke · · Score: 1

      Or ...

      When the mites go up, the tights come down.

    7. Re:stalagtite? by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 1

      No no no, the stalagmites are mighty, so they push up from the ground. The stalagtites need to hang on tight to the ceiling or they will fall. Duh =P

    8. Re:stalagtite? by WalrusSP · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tenacious D says it best:

      Stalactite, hold on tight
      Stalagmite, might poke you in the ass

    9. Re:stalagtite? by shepd · · Score: 1

      So what happens when a stalagmite and stalactite meet?

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    10. Re:stalagtite? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 2, Funny

      So what happens when a stalagmite and stalactite meet?

      Well, then the space between them gets "mitey tite." *groan*

      I'd just hit it with a bat and knock it back to stalactite & stalagmite. MAKE the world make sense!

    11. Re:stalagtite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      good slogan... oh, I like the name too.

    12. Re:stalagtite? by tunah · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bah, you're both wrong. Stalac"mite" as in "mite not ever need to know the difference, if i'm lucky."

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    13. Re:stalagtite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How do you think a stalactite becomes a stalagmite

    14. Re:stalagtite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stalactites hold tight.

      Stalagtites are something Col. Klink wears.

      mmmmmm Helga

      Hogan was in Stalag 13, not Stalag 17

      Holden was in Stalag 17 (insert your own imdm ref)

    15. Re:stalagtite? by Chan · · Score: 1

      Not to take the topic too seriously, but wouldn't that be called a pillar?

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    16. Re:stalagtite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I always remember this because Stalgtites have to hold "TIGHT" to the ceiling, while Stalagmites MIGHT continue to grow and eventually reach the ceiling

    17. Re:stalagtite? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      tights don't come down so you can scratch them. sheesh.

    18. Re:stalagtite? by billcopc · · Score: 1

      Let's just call 'em Bubba and go on with our lives.

      "Hey, you've got a big ole' Bubba drippin' down."

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  39. I Know What I Would Use It For by jade42 · · Score: 1

    I want to start a movement in colleges across the world. That being the creation of phallic symbols made out of snow. All in the name of free speech, of course.

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  40. I'm from California by graveyhead · · Score: 1



    You insensitive clod!

    :P

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  41. Woohoo! by InsaneCreator · · Score: 1

    Yes! I always wanted to shovel the driveway in July!

  42. Re:crap alert...michael is at it again. by cetan · · Score: 1

    I hate these stretches when he gets going like this

    Silly me, I thought it was one long stretch...

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  43. Snowmaking is irrelevant. by dan.hunt · · Score: 1

    The snow is stacked up 3.5 feet deep in front of my house where the snow plow cleared the road. Last week it was almost -40 degrees! If you want to play in the snow, hop a flight to Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada. But remember to pack your thermal underwear, and bring your mittens.

  44. Re:REQUEST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://www.hangtenproductions.com/

  45. Operation "Desert Snowstorm" by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Funny
    Alarmed by the prediction of a large amount of casualties in civil population, the allied army is trying a novelty variation of psycological war. Instead of weapons that throw bullets and explosives, this new weapons will throw snow balls, spreading chaos in enemy lines.

    To be fair, and counting that Iraq will be totally disarmed when the attack begins, iraqui forces will be provided with the same snow guns, to have a fair battle. Unfortunatelly, the SnowGenerator(TM) device is patented with a license of no exportation to some countries, so iraquis soldiers will have to use sand to load this weapons.

    Intelligence are checking on the rumors that the new weapon's blueprints are published in enemy web site, and will search for security leaks if this rumors are finally true.

  46. Re:REQUEST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks!! That is fantastic, just the sort of thing I was looking for. Thank you once again!

  47. What tempurature this works at by enigmatichmachine · · Score: 1, Informative

    For all you californaians out there( like myself) this only works in the 20's fahreneit, so don't think your going to make snow out here on the west coastt, this only works when its FREEZING.

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  48. free snow by Giltron · · Score: 1

    I'll sell you some of my snow too...took my 2 hours to shovel it today might as well make some money for my troubles

    Heck...if you come pick it up you can take it all away for free

  49. HAHAHA Suckers!!! by DenOfEarth · · Score: 2, Funny

    up 'ere in Canada we get all the snow for free, eh...we don't need no stinking sno-guns...

  50. Re:crap alert...michael is at it again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    OK...
    Try this.

    I don't know about peanut butter and airmail stamps, but a little Jesus might get you off the ground.

  51. Just what I need by Washizu · · Score: 1

    Digging out my car two weeks ago wasn't fun enough.

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    1. Re:Just what I need by murgee · · Score: 1

      now everyone can come over and re-bury it for you... what fun! :-)

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    2. Re:Just what I need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You call that blizzard or 'Snowed In'?

      Bwahhahah.

  52. Re:I HATE NIGGERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey, whatever works for you. No problemo.

  53. The boston weather people by Danger+Fan · · Score: 1

    Ah, good ole Todd Gross. You should watch his weather reports. He makes perfect arrows on the maps.

    1. Re:The boston weather people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      With Intel and AMD delivering faster and more powerful processors at a rate which makes your head swim, the consequences are plain as day. Apple is hurting, buried in a blizzard deficits. Apple's spindly financial footing sinking ever deeper into that fiscal bog of no return. Frankly, many prominent industry analysts have crunched the numbers, concluding that Apple's outlook is bleak indeed.

      In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.

      At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.

      The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.

      So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.

      Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.

  54. -40 celsius ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here in Quebec its called road hockey weather!

    jean-guy tabarnaque

    1. Re:-40 celsius ? by KemoSabe304 · · Score: 0

      -40 is the same celsius and fahrenheit, the scales cross over

  55. Snow Cannon by borgasm · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else read the title of this article and think: Wow! Now I can launch snow at my enemies / neighbors / both ?

    I have thought of building a snowball gun similar to a potato gun, but I never really figured a good way to make the projectiles. Maybe some type of ice cream scoop loader?

  56. Thanks for the alert... by llebe · · Score: 1

    without which I'd have been forced to view this website and its articles against my will. Now I can view the web-thingy without fear.

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    Stock schmock, give me cash.
  57. Ponderous.... by telstar · · Score: 1

    He got so wrapped up in the fact that he COULD, that he forgot to stop and ask if he should...

    I'm always amazed the people like this can also build a website...

  58. This would be pretty hard by Nobley · · Score: 2, Informative

    I worked as a snow maker for 3 months a couple years back and what I know is that using water treated with snow enducing bacteria and using air compressed on a set of pumps that used as much electicity as a small town, on snow guns with commercial heads, you really needed it to be below 30 degrees F. To do the equivilant home made style you would need a LOT as well as very high water pressure and very cold temperatures seeing as you would not have the snow enducing bacteria.

    1. Re:This would be pretty hard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How can bacteria induce snow?

  59. Re:REQUEST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok...explain this to me. If someone is a foot fetishist, why does it matter if the feet belong to people with attractive faces and bodies? Shouldn't the feet be the main (if not only) thing that matters? Either I don't get it or you're a fraud.

  60. Bin Laden Spotted in Paris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    More news to follow..

  61. Wheee..... by dracken · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I made the snow gun, but unfortunately ran out of stuff to make snow out of. Any volunteers ?

  62. mites go up..tites come down by phantomwolph · · Score: 2, Informative

    thats how i always remember it

  63. you think that's bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I once had to shovel straight down just to find my house....and then a pipe broke and I had to shovel down another meter to fix that problem.

    Didn't see the cat for two days and finally heard him under the floor in the entrance...had to use a chain saw to cut an escape door. After a meter of snow (in the first hour) on the roof made it hard to open doors, I decided to shovel it clear....by the time I'd get to one end of the roof, there would be another meter building and I'd have to start all over. We had to walk up just to get outside. More than one structure collapsed and wasn't dealt with until things melted months later.

    A pair of buses in a local parking lot dissapeared from view and we had to dig down more than a meter just to find their roof vents. If you don't have at least 5 meters of snow to deal with, you've got it easy.

    1. Re:you think that's bad... by kfg · · Score: 1

      Ok, ya got me. :)

      KFG

  64. Any Temp Snow gun by Mr.Coffee · · Score: 1

    Hey, i remember seeing a bit on the old discovery channel show "Next Step" anybody remember that?

    anyway, they had a bit about these guys who made snow with a modified snow gun and liquid nitrogen, to proove it worked they made snow in the desert or something. i remmeber their setup was covered with what looked like a tarp, but it made something like 1000 cubic feet of snow in an hour or something, damn impressive, and what can i say, i just want to re-create the scene out of real geniuses

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  65. Re:We don't need no stinking sno-guns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Snogun? A remake of the James Clavell novel about feudalist japan, set in Canada. I can see it all now:
    • An all-japanese cast
    • Set in rural northern canada
    • Bob & Doug McKenzie the old Godzilla genre.
    • Two snogun warriors dressed in about 15 layers of wool battle it out in the final scene.
    • The layers get in the way of moving so much that it seems like slow motion, even if it isn't.
    • ... um...
    Nah, it isn't that funny after all: (click's post-anonymous on)

    Truth be known, I just like the sound of sno-gun warrior and your 'badges' quote from 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (a favorite) had me in a mindset to make the connection.

  66. Re:REQUEST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, you don't get it.

    The emphasis is on the feet, just like other guys might put the emphasis on the breasts (for example) but the overall picture is important too. There's no attraction in a lady having beautiful feet if the rest of her is a skank too.

    But having said that, pretty feet can make up for shortcomings in other areas.

  67. I was wondering the same thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What idiot would want to make $n*w? If there's a shortage somewhere, hell, send a loader and a truck to my house and take all of the goddamned stuff you want. I got a 200 ft. driveway that's got about 4 inches of pack ice covering it, and it's $n*wing again right now.

  68. From This Day Forward I Decree... by istartedi · · Score: 1

    ...that they shall both be called "stalagites" and that everybody will be happy.

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    1. Re:From This Day Forward I Decree... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      I prefer the term "Graboids."

  69. Wait..... by danoatvulaw · · Score: 1

    you can almost see the lawsuit filing itself...

  70. Sure... by TechMangler · · Score: 1

    and in the next war the Germans are gonna paste the Americans with the Potatoe Canons!

  71. An easier one... by Zemran · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember by :-

    The dear little mites reached up and pulled their mothers tights down....

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  72. Snow Guns are for Kids... by MoThugz · · Score: 1

    someone please point me to a *REAL* grown man's toy...

    A DIY Flamethrower

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    1. Re:Snow Guns are for Kids... by Sarcazmo · · Score: 1

      Sure, just get an empty spray bottle that various cleaners come in, the kind with a trigger. Fill it with rubbing alcohol. Tie a piece of stiff wire around the nozzle part, and leave some wire sticking out. Put a cotton ball on the end of the wire sticking out, and bend the wire so it is in front of the spray of the nozzle, about 3 or 4 inches away. Spray a few times to get the cotton ball wet, light it, and blast away.

      I used to use this to kill ants when they would swarm in the yard as a kid. One could probably use it to melt ice too, but alcohol doesn't burn very hot.

      As always, if you do this, I take no liability. The whole thing is liable to erupt into a ball of flames in your hand if you aren't careful. I never did it with anything hotter than 70% rubbing alcohol. Note that some fuels will attack the plastic in the bottle and melt it chemically.

  73. Snowgun by tisaak · · Score: 1

    Well, not quite what one would call "home-made", but it does the job:

    SwizzBlizz

  74. OK I got it working, but now... by Yonder+Way · · Score: 1

    ...how do I turn this thing off???

  75. You need a *lot* of water as well. by hughk · · Score: 1
    I like to ski and snow-machines are regrettably very much part of the scene. At crossings in particular, the snow cover can get very thin so they have to use snow machines, usually several to keep the piste in order.

    One of the problems with these machines, which as you rightly say, require a lot of power for the fans and pumps but they require a lot of something to pump. At ski-resorts they may even have to build new reservoirs (sometimes by excavating out existing lakes, to increase volume). On a permanet installation, the pipes have to be heated too.

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    1. Re:You need a *lot* of water as well. by Nobley · · Score: 1

      The ski resort I worked at did not heat their pipes, they simply had water flowing through them fast enough for it to *mostly* not freeze, they were a foot in diamater and we generally ran 80-120 snow guns a night. If a pipe did freeze, you had 10+ snow makers out there at the frozen point heating the pipe with 10 blow torches, not very fun, only happened like twice in the 3 months I worked there

    2. Re:You need a *lot* of water as well. by hughk · · Score: 1

      What happens when they are swwitched off, i.e., whilst the Piste is open? Does the water drain back down?

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    3. Re:You need a *lot* of water as well. by Nobley · · Score: 1

      For one thing, they pumped snow out on 2 seperate 12 hour shifts, just on closed trails during the day, But I do beleive they drained the pipes out when not in use and just flushed them out with air.

    4. Re:You need a *lot* of water as well. by AndroidCat · · Score: 1

      I hope they signs posted not to lick the pipes, otherwise they could be looking at major legal damage! :^)

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    5. Re:You need a *lot* of water as well. by Nobley · · Score: 1

      well, we would just use the same blow torches that we thaw the pipe out with I guess ;)

  76. Re:I live in the SOUTH East by smilingirl · · Score: 1

    I live in Louisiana,and I have never seen snow before in my entire life! Seriously, it doesn't snow here in south Louisiana. So I would probably love to see one of these, but I don't think it would be the same as the real stuff, though I wouldn't know. My lifelong dream has been to build a snowman. I've wanted to build one my whole life and have yet to see it snow. =( Though I wouldn't want it to snow every year cuz I don't like cold weather.

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  77. Just What We Need In NYC... by DaveRomigh · · Score: 1

    ... just after the worst blizzard in seven years.

    And this, coming from someone who grew up in upstate New York, in the middle of the Snow Belt.

    -rant on-
    THIS article makes it onto /.? I'm beginning to rethink why I read this site in the first place. This isn't tech geek news - hell, this isn't even 'tech geek hobby' news. WTF kind of hobby is making snow? Do you put something ON the snow, like maple syrup, or thickened Koolaid? No? Then who gives a damn? It's a bitch enough to shovel what falls naturally - why make more?
    -rant off-

    1. Re:Just What We Need In NYC... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shut up, baby...

  78. Re:I live in the SOUTH East by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 1

    well, feel free to come visit me in Pittsburgh someday. we don't get LOTS of snow here like I did when I lived in New Hampshire, but we get enough.

    My lifelong dream has been to build a snowman.

    It's good to have goals =)

    honestly, snowmen are neat, but they lose their charm after the 123112347120394th one you make. Now, the anatomically correct ones you build at the main enterance to your college... they're more fun.

    ~Jon~

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  79. Largest... Snow.. Gun... Ever..... by Garion911 · · Score: 1

    Lake Erie.

    For those not in upstate NY, look up "lake effect snow" and Oswego, NY.

    (for the record, I'm in Syracuse)

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  80. Check Valve? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is real smart. The plans I seen does not include a check valve in the water line. If you dont know what you are doing you could fill the water system with air.

  81. Stalactites hold tight. by GeckoX · · Score: 1

    Subject says it all.

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  82. Geez, just get an Athlon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    problem solved

  83. But wait there's more! by Hellraisr · · Score: 1

    It's probably more accurate at destroying ICBMs than Star Wars/SDI or whatever you want to call it today.

  84. more accurate for shooting down ICBM's? by Duositex · · Score: 1

    It would be accurate for shooting down missles if a few conditions were met:

    1)The missle were made of paper
    2)The missle was moving very slowly
    3)The missle was launced within 30 feet of the gun

    Since missles are made of metal, move many times faster than sound, and are launched "Intercontinentally" you'd have no chance. But...thats obvious.

  85. I too live in the Northeast and you are a Dumbass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey man, too bad about your roof, but from the looks of it it is your fault. I mean, if you are too stupid to get on top of your roof and shovel off six feet of snow, then you desrve this. What is the weight of snow? I am sure you would need some kind of compression factor, but you could get a really cool differential equation for the compression of snow per foot. At this point one could measure the mass of snow per foot, as the bottom most foot would become more and more compressed as more snow fell on it.

    Dumbass, shovel the snow off your roof next time. If you REALLY live in the Northeast then you SHOULD know this.

    Your antagonistic critic,
    The one that calls you DUMBASS!

  86. Suspects in the New York snow storm attack are,,,, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    believed to have been using plans from this site, to carry out there devious terrorist attack on NewYork and Washington. In other reports the seemingly unique structure of each crystalline flake has made tracking down these fiends nearly impossible.

    Signed JerryMeander It's funny laugh

  87. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these by asscroft · · Score: 1

    I know, I know. Mod me as necessary.

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    because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
  88. Snow melting gun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What you need it this:

    http://www.gas-turbines.com/hornet.htm

  89. I live in South Florida by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It never gets into the 20's. I guess I can't make snow :~(. I have to settle for the snow packages that planes drop when customs are chasing them.

  90. Perfect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I should strap one of these babies to the front of my snowmobile for the off-season!

  91. Cater to my laziness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I just did a search for Snow Guns on eBay and found no results.

  92. Only a foot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I got more of the goddamned stuff if you want it.

  93. Colorado Home Snow by Bmedia · · Score: 1

    This company called Colorado Home Snow has a couple of different snowmakers targeted toward home users or people running small snowboard parks or tubing hills. I run a site called BoardingPlanet.com and they sent us one to review. We haven't had the chance to review it due to weather conditions, but it looks pretty cool. It is basically just a tripod with a custom casted mixing chamber. You supply the water and air presure. It takes about 30-40 psi w/ about 7 or 8 cfm to get the right mixure. Check out BP for the review sometime in the upcomming weeks. It should be interesting.