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Gentlemen, the technology for sand skiing exists!

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1337
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Who will be the first to make dry-ice skis???!
Oct 20 2013 11:48AM
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theabortionator
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DO WANT! Grab a big slab and put a chair on it and just drink a beer and cruise across the desert
Oct 20 2013 11:53AM
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1337
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These bad boys will go for miles. 6 degree slope is nothing
Oct 20 2013 12:47PM
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The_Beekeeper
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Holy shit that's awesome. Traveling Circus get on this.
Oct 20 2013 1:30PM
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theabortionator
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Or signals every third thursday
Oct 20 2013 1:36PM
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CrotchKiller
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Indeed
Oct 20 2013 2:24PM
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Holte
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Realistically, how would you attach dry ice to a ski base? All I can think of is screwing it in with a large washer around the screw head so the ice wouldn't evaporate off the screws. But even then it wouldn't be a tight enough attachment to give you any sort of edging control. What other equipment uses attached dry ice?
Oct 20 2013 3:11PM
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1337
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It's highly unlikely you could actually take advantage of the dry ice. But perhaps like a tupperware container, upside down. The weight of the skier would keep the dry ice contained.
Oct 20 2013 4:15PM
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t_rob
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http://www.powdermag.com/places/trips/taking-turns-with-the-dune-skier/
Oct 20 2013 4:38PM
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Miomo
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http://youtu.be/BBgiU_rNDxs
Oct 20 2013 5:16PM
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Lick
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Lol you're going to need a big tupperware container.
Oct 20 2013 5:17PM
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theabortionator
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Because he's totally skiing on dry ice.
Oct 20 2013 5:18PM
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Mr.Huck
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So if I understand the experiment right, it wasn't really the ice, but the gas that the dry ice emits as it thaws. Maybe you just need to have a way for the gas to come out through small holes in the base of the ski.
Oct 20 2013 5:22PM
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theabortionator
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Hopefully somebody discovers how to build a hover board.


They should make a magnetic room and a magnetic board until them. I just want a hover board of some sorts. Somebody go to the future and bring me back one.
Oct 20 2013 5:24PM
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Mr.Huck
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You create a hollow monocogue ski and run hoses from the ski to a backpack. The backpack would have dry ice melting and the gas would be forced down the hose and out through tiny pin holes in the base of the skis. It just might work. The low tech solution would be loading up on Seven Eleven frozen beef and bean burritos, and just shoving the hoses up your butt.
Oct 20 2013 5:32PM
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Oct 20 2013 5:43PM
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TheBigApple
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Like an air hockey table or hovercraft
Oct 20 2013 6:20PM
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danderson.
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How did they get on Mars?
Oct 20 2013 6:24PM
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Miomo
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Maybe, but if you weigh 150lb, you need 150+lb of pressure
Oct 20 2013 6:52PM
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appa
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on a side note, it looked like they were doing those tests at the great sand dunes in colorado. everyone should check them out at some point they're fucking rad as fuck.
Oct 20 2013 9:33PM
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Anathema
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dude are you fucking retarded they're obviously not on mars, they're not wearing helmets.
Oct 20 2013 10:16PM
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Snowtorious_BIG
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Wearing helmets is the law on Mars
Oct 20 2013 10:47PM
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broto
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i think it might have been on mars....



and one of those students might have been marsland....



on marsland........
Oct 20 2013 11:15PM
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Keith_M
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Thing is, the science behind that means that dry ice on the bottom of skis should make it able to slide on whatever surface, not just sand, since it is the gas the dry ice gives off as it sublimates that makes that work. I mean, dry ice on the bottom of skis on snow would even just make you go faster/have less friction. You should be able to cruise down asphalt if you had dry ice skis yeah? Always wanted to cruise down some roads on skis.
Oct 20 2013 11:26PM
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Holte
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I'll put it on the list, but if I make a time machine bringing you a fucking magnet is gonna be pretty low priority.
Oct 21 2013 5:33AM
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Dr.Dickless
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spray supercooled gaseous carbon dioxide onto your bases, the impact incites nucleation and it leaves a nice thin layer of dry ice on them, you would probably have to reapply every run or two though
Oct 21 2013 12:24PM
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Mr.Huck
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Except that your skis would shatter when you tried to step into your bindings. Other than that, this would work great.
Oct 21 2013 12:46PM
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Huck_Norris
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Horrible frostbite-induced gangrene be damned, I'm doing this after work. I bet it rips on blacktop.
Oct 21 2013 3:15PM
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Casey
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What do you do when you get to the hill and your skis evaporated in the trunk hours ago?
Oct 21 2013 3:21PM
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Miomo
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No. If you put dry ice on something (relatively) hot, then it will sublimate faster than if it's something cool, like water ice.
Oct 21 2013 3:37PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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Just saying....Mars has exceptionally weaker gravity than earth. This wouldn't work quite as well.
Oct 21 2013 3:42PM
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Mr.Huck
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That would really suck, especially if they were rentals.
Oct 21 2013 4:27PM
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CaelW
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Exactly what I was thinking when I read that
Oct 21 2013 5:13PM
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Casey
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good luck getting your deposit back.

Oct 21 2013 10:17PM
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Montana_Hoodrat
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Watch the new SkiFi. You don't need dry ice. Just badassness.
Oct 21 2013 10:24PM
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DaneKirk
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Ive messed around with that shit at school. dry ice will slide for days along a flat countertop if you push it even a little.
Oct 22 2013 4:49AM
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1337
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So perhaps we dont make dry slopes anymore but instead dry ice slopes. In theory the gas given off by the surface would press against our skis (what you describe but upside down.
Oct 23 2013 12:44PM
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nomensteven
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Oct 23 2013 1:22PM
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Oct 23 2013 1:23PM
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JAHBRADOR
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For real though.
Oct 23 2013 1:36PM
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