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Originally posted by: FleshLight
Shens! It gets to 40F here in CA and I start shivering uncontrollably.
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That's because you're a wuss. 😎 I love jogging in shorts and no shirt when it gets down into the 20's. It's envigorating. I also used to jog barefoot in the snow, when it used to snow that is. Some people just have no tolerance for cold. The coldest I've been in was about 10 below, and it was cold but not all that bad, so I can't say what I'd think about -50.

In my case I have no tolerance for heat. I sweat in the 70's and nearly pass-out at 85. I get heat stroke faster than most people can blink.
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Shens! It gets to 40F here in CA and I start shivering uncontrollably.
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That's because you're a wuss. 😎 I love jogging in shorts and no shirt when it gets down into the 20's. It's envigorating. I also used to jog barefoot in the snow, when it used to snow that is. Some people just have no tolerance for cold. The coldest I've been in was about 10 below, and it was cold but not all that bad, so I can't say what I'd think about -50.

In my case I have no tolerance for heat. I sweat in the 70's and nearly pass-out at 85. I get heat stroke faster than most people can blink.
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You get heatstroke even with proper hydration? Unlucky for you. I'd have to not drink water for teh whole morning and then run 3 miles in 90 degree weather to approach a heat stroke. Of course I get a slight headache. I try to drink about double the amount of water on hot days, probably about 7-10 cups on a hot day.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: russianpower
I'm guessing he went outside just for 10 seconds to complete the stunt. 😉
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Dude, one time it got 40F here, and I went to the hospital for frostbite because I only wore 10 layers of clothes. -50F is like absolute zero.
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just to bring some science to this thread, absolute zero = -459F 😉
 
Originally posted by: TechnoKid
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Shens! It gets to 40F here in CA and I start shivering uncontrollably.
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That's because you're a wuss. 😎 I love jogging in shorts and no shirt when it gets down into the 20's. It's envigorating. I also used to jog barefoot in the snow, when it used to snow that is. Some people just have no tolerance for cold. The coldest I've been in was about 10 below, and it was cold but not all that bad, so I can't say what I'd think about -50.

In my case I have no tolerance for heat. I sweat in the 70's and nearly pass-out at 85. I get heat stroke faster than most people can blink.
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You get heatstroke even with proper hydration? Unlucky for you. I'd have to not drink water for teh whole morning and then run 3 miles in 90 degree weather to approach a heat stroke. Of course I get a slight headache. I try to drink about double the amount of water on hot days, probably about 7-10 cups on a hot day.
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First time was when I was shooting in the nationals in va. It was about 90 that day, no breeze. I was in the target pits from 8am till about 130 in the afternoon (so I wasn't even in direct sunlight, and it hadn't hit the hot of the day yet). I drank about a gallon of water and 2 32 ounce gatorades in that time, as well as having a pretty good lunch. Just didn't do any good. The guys looked at me, sat me down and called for a medic...the range officer came down thinking someone had been shot. Was pretty funny, except I spent the next two days in the hospital getting fluids and had to withdraw from the competition.

After that it got even worse for me. If I'm in temperatures over 80 for more than a couple hours I'm gone, no matter what. No doctor has ever been able to tell me why, they just tell me to stay the hell out of hot climates...which is no problem because I've never liked it over 70 anyway.
 
Originally posted by: TechnoKid
I've seen this on the news before, not with a pot of water, but a mug of hot water was thrown in the air on live news coverage and it instantly froze in the air. So its definately possible.
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Me too. Saw it on Fox 11 news in LA. Except I think he had a pot of BOILING water. (Except it probably wasnt boiling after he brought it outside)
 
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Originally posted by: RockHydra11
I remember reading in a novel in English class about a hiker in Alaska. He mentioned aomething about at -50 degrees you can spit and it will be frozen by the time it reaches the ground. Can't remember the book, though. :/ I do know that the faster something freezes, the smaller the crystals. But, I would be willing to bet that it was liquid nitrogen that was in that container.
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Jack London, "To Build a Fire".
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that was a sick movie- remember when the guy almost froze his toes because he touched water.
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I could see it happening, the hot water itself was probably well over boiling, going into that cold 0% humidity weather would turn it into vapor if dispersed into the air properly.
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The water was NOT "well over boiling" in a nonpressurized vessel, sorry.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I could see it happening, the hot water itself was probably well over boiling, going into that cold 0% humidity weather would turn it into vapor if dispersed into the air properly.
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The water was NOT "well over boiling" in a nonpressurized vessel, sorry.
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heh, caught that as well - "gee, it had to have been well over 100 C at 1 ATM"
 
The water was NOT "well over boiling" in a nonpressurized vessel, sorry.
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Actually it is very possible to superheat water at atmospheric pressure. One common example is a cup of water heated in the radar range. Just be careful when you disturb it!

In the photonics lab, there are highly stablised "tables" for holographic studies. It was found that a Dewar filled with 18MO water "irradiated" with a polyphase nebuliser at a certain frequency with considerable power was heated considerably higher than 100°C. That was almost as neat as the "anti gravity cockroach" demonstration that was done that same week. Lots of neat stuff goes on there. I miss that place.

Cheers!
 
Originally posted by: sharkeeper
The water was NOT "well over boiling" in a nonpressurized vessel, sorry.
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Actually it is very possible to superheat water at atmospheric pressure. One common example is a cup of water heated in the radar range. Just be careful when you disturb it!
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Good luck taking it out, putting it into a pot, then throwing the pot out without it boiling over.

 
Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Actually it is very possible to superheat water at atmospheric pressure. One common example is a cup of water heated in the radar range. Just be careful when you disturb it!
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"radar range"? do you live in 1950? 😉
 
Good luck taking it out, putting it into a pot, then throwing the pot out without it boiling over.
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Well if people can do this with their dog, then they can do anything! 😛

"radar range"? do you live in 1950?
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🙂 I remember when the filling stations were called Esso. (now Exxon)

Cheers!
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: russianpower
I'm guessing he went outside just for 10 seconds to complete the stunt. 😉
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Dude, one time it got 40F here, and I went to the hospital for frostbite because I only wore 10 layers of clothes. -50F is like absolute zero.
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Wow you're weaksauce dude...it was -12F once when I walked back from my parking spot that's almost a mile away from my dorm, and windchill made it -17F (this is according to weather.com)

I felt bad cuz I had convinced my friend to go with me since I had driven him to his parking spot earlier so he could park and then walk back with me, but his spot would have been closer. At any rate, he thought up the idea of running to get home quicker, except I quickly realized the horrible mistake that this was when the windchill simply got REALLY REALLY bad when we ran...omg that night hurt like a mofo.

Anyways, you can't really get frostbite in 40F weather...that's not even below freezing...err?

40F is T-shirt weather around here, lol. But I can't wait to get to cali (leaving today WOOHOO!!!)
 
I was out in shorts and a sweatshirt in -25F last December and honestly, there's just a certain point where cold is cold. I'm from California and I was in Minnesota (Twin Cities) and it really didn't feel any colder than how cold it gets at night in Lake Tahoe.

I'm not expert on frostbite but I can tell you that walking outside for just 10 seconds isn't long enough. If he was inside the whole time before then his body still was warm. I figured out this effect very well when I was in Ohio because I could go outside long enough to clear the sidewalk and get the snow off the car during the first storm of the year this year back around mid-late December.

I call shens on the video because how do you know it isn't just flour or something?
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Originally posted by: FleshLight
Shens! It gets to 40F here in CA and I start shivering uncontrollably.
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That's because you're a wuss. 😎 I love jogging in shorts and no shirt when it gets down into the 20's. It's envigorating. I also used to jog barefoot in the snow, when it used to snow that is. Some people just have no tolerance for cold. The coldest I've been in was about 10 below, and it was cold but not all that bad, so I can't say what I'd think about -50.

In my case I have no tolerance for heat. I sweat in the 70's and nearly pass-out at 85. I get heat stroke faster than most people can blink.
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Trust me, when it hits around -30F you really start to feel it. As a side note, I really hate the fact that this state has a good third of the year taken up by winter.
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
In my case I have no tolerance for heat. I sweat in the 70's and nearly pass-out at 85. I get heat stroke faster than most people can blink.
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You wouldn't last a day for 6 months out of the year here.. 😛
 
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