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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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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Re:Just what I need!
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zer0vector
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· 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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I live in the North East
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purduephotog
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· 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*
Re:I live in the North East
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kendric
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· 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.
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.
Like I said last thread
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(1337)+God
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· 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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White House blames terrorists for snow
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ediron2
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· 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.
Re:White House blames terrorists for snow
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rjamestaylor
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· 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.)
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! >=(
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
Screw at home...try it the real way...
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djupedal
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· 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.
Want to impress me?
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bigt_littleodd
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· 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.:-)
-- Let's play Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll be Pestilence.
Re:Want to impress me?
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bluGill
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· 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.
stalagtite?
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Tumbleweed
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· 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.
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Operation "Desert Snowstorm"
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gmuslera
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· 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.
HAHAHA Suckers!!!
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DenOfEarth
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· Score: 2, Funny
up 'ere in Canada we get all the snow for free, eh...we don't need no stinking sno-guns...
This would be pretty hard
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Nobley
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· 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.
Re:Speaking as a Canadian...
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weeboo0104
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· Score: 2, Funny
I can make yellow snow...
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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 . ..
This post was brought to you by the number 584811 and the characters / and .
What a perfect idea for those of you in the northeast of the US who just can't get enough snow, especially this winter (-:
Modular Redundancy--Because 4 out of 5 Nodes agree
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*
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.
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?
Join my (1337) clan -- read my journal
Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2003; B.S. Comp Sci MIT 2000
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.
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! >=(
TLoM: Nerds + DDR + Rednecks for the win!
...that all those cocaine dealers in South Central are going to go out of business?
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
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.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
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
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.
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.
Let's play Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll be Pestilence.
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!)
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.
up 'ere in Canada we get all the snow for free, eh...we don't need no stinking sno-guns...
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.
I can make yellow snow...
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
...I made the snow gun, but unfortunately ran out of stuff to make snow out of. Any volunteers ?
thats how i always remember it
I remember by :-
The dear little mites reached up and pulled their mothers tights down....
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.