Poster: A snowHead
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Scientists are constantly trying to find better ways to make skis slide faster. 'Electric wax' is an invention of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. The idea is to send pulses of electicity along a special ski base to freeze or thaw snow in three-thousandths of a second.
I've come across related inventions in the past which have come to nothing, so it'll be interesting to see if this one is a runner (or a slider).
The article provides few details, so hopefully we'll see more of them shortly.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Skier in bar: "So there I was, halfway down the black, at speed, when I went through a pile of powder, and my skis shorted out..."
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Watt a disaster!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Shocking
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Ample sources of amusement?
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It appears to be the current source!
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Do they have a european or Standard 3 pin plug, and does the free riding version come with a set of jump leads?
Last edited by After all it is free on Mon 1-03-04 21:54; edited 1 time in total
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The capacity for humour in this alone could provide enough resistance to cause the inventors to do a volte-face, I should think.
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How much do they charge?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Not sure, but for UK customers they take Switch, foreign customers need to wire them the cash.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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These guys must be bright sparks. I'm sure the luddites will find the invention shocking.
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No doubt invented by Mr Van De Graff!
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You know it makes sense.
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There's a hydro-electric version for water-skiing.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ohme my god
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Poster: A snowHead
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We seem to have exhausted the "electrical" jokes -mhos the pity!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We have the capacity for much more. So far it's just been an induction course.
(Sorry, repeated one there)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Well don't let me impede the humour.
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I'm sure that that thought will resonate with us...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was going to post that one!!!
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Well franklin the jokes are getting a bit thin. There's been a few joules though.
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With great reluctance I will think on...
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Darn it, I was going to do "ain't you lot got no ohms to go to?" having just learnt about this thread but I've been beaten to the Ohm. Ion gonna give up.
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For how long can this continue, faraday, or more?
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Have the jokes stopped now or are they just static? [Thought you were stopping - Ed (ison)]
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I thought this thread LED somewhere.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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By the way, did you hear about the police catching two lads shoplifting? One was nicking batteries, one was nicking fireworks. They charged one but let the other off.
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It's certainly galvanised a lot of people to post
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You know it makes sense.
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Surely, this thread has more potential...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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No, I'm positive it should come to an end...
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Poster: A snowHead
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I see a lot of negative comments on the subject, but only one positive
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Looks like this thread's going to go down to the wire.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Current opinion is that it's time to call it a day. The other half is incandescent with rage....
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The forums have been transformed by the solid state of these jokes, lets hope we don't return to the flux we were in previously.
Sorry, had to chip in again.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I trust the the skis will be wired in parallel.
Couldn't refuse it !
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You mean you had to have another byte dont you marc ?
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Stop, stop, it hertz
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Another thanks to David for generating such interest!
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And there it seems to die? Oh dear!
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I'm being kept in high tension waiting for the final pun...
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