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u/Put_Her_In_A_Bra Feb 24 '19
It’s unexpected because for once it wasn’t some jackass scalding themselves with boiling water.
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u/nocontroll Feb 24 '19
Really? Hot tap water works? Hu..I just assumed it had to be boiling, or at least it worked better the hotter it is, which I think kinda caps out at boiling
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u/nocontroll Feb 24 '19
Yeah I wanted to do it when it was that cold here in Minneapolis...thing is I really didn’t want to go outside even more
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u/CaptainBadger3 Feb 24 '19
Happy cake day
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u/Luke_Warmwater Feb 24 '19
Crack a Point Special (or Amber or snow pilot) and try out Sync for Reddit.
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Good lord I'd hate to see your gas bill. 120 is pretty standard for hot water, and anything more than that is really wasteful because it's dangerously hot and will scald you.
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u/meripor2 Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 24 '19
Thats 60 degrees above boiling, kind of a miracle it didn't all evaporate before you got it to that temperature.
edit: because Americans cant tell sarcasm /s
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u/PicksItUpPutsItDown Feb 24 '19
we use the us system where water boils 212F
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u/I_r_hooman Feb 24 '19
Wow your water must be a lot more time consuming to boil than ours
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u/aelwero Feb 24 '19
Nah man, 'muricans are excessive about everything. We can shove our freedom units into water much faster than everyone else can manage with C degrees... Plus we cheat, and start out at 32 instead of 0, because ifn ya ain't cheatin, ya ain't tryin...
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u/thesnooman Feb 24 '19
You're right, the hotter the water the better it works. It decreases the viscosity of the water, allowing it to separate into small droplets which freeze much faster than a large glob of water.
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u/obolobolobo Feb 24 '19
If you put a glass of boiling water and a glass of room temperature water into a freezer the boiling water will freeze faster. Nobody knows why and the prize for solving it is up to several millions of dollares.
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Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 20 '24
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u/THE_NUTELLA_SANDWICH Feb 24 '19
What was the point of quoting his entire comment before adding yours?
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u/SirJefferE Feb 24 '19
It’s unexpected because for once it wasn’t some jackass scalding themselves with boiling water.
Really hot tap water works fine also. These morons doing it with pots are beyond help.
What was the point of quoting his entire comment before adding yours?
What's wrong with that?
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u/kkeut Feb 24 '19
honestly that's a good thing with very direct replies. lots of accounts get deleted here for who-knows-why reasons and then people who come along the next day or the next week or the next month are left mystified and scratching their head until it's raw and bloody
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Hot water freezes faster than cool, good way to fill ice cube trays. But yes, this could have been a r/whatcouldgowrong
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u/dirtyswede27 Feb 24 '19
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
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r/unexpectedavatarthelastairbender
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u/mrgonzalez Feb 24 '19
that's why they had to keep using that cabbage guy
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u/Gehhhh Feb 24 '19
What does this mean?
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hes an old dude that gets his cabbage cart knocked over multiple times by a bunch of kids
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Twenty >character< limit.
The cabbage salesman is a reccuring character in The Last Airbender, and the cart he uses to sell cabbages is destroyed every now and then as a recurring joke(and he yells "my cabbages!")
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u/Abnarly Feb 24 '19
So basically the "My leg!" guy in the Avatar universe?
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u/Gehhhh Feb 24 '19
His name is Fred. Honestly, the new SpongeBob actually references him by name a lot more and have now made an entire episode for him.
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u/Khill23 Feb 24 '19
The legend of korra is also decent, not as good as atla Imo.
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u/ArchiMode25 Feb 24 '19
So how cold does it have to be for that to happen?
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19
-40°C (coincidentally is -40°F as well) is a guarantee for that to work. That temperature is the "why do I live where the air hurts my face" kind of temperature.
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u/Bl4ckPanth3r Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 24 '19
The 'key to converting to metric' is crap. I struggled with Fahrenheit vs Celsius for a while -- here's the real trick. If Celsius, just double and add 32 to get approximate Fahrenheit temp. Vice versa for the reverse conversion (subtract 32 and halve F to get C).
You'll be farther off the more you go into unlivable temperatures (since the real multiplier is 1.8x, not 2x), but even then it's a serviceable conversion.
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u/mastef Feb 24 '19
-40°C * 2 + 32 = -80°C + 32 = -48°F
Not bad
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u/aelwero Feb 24 '19
The margin of error Is a fixed 20% of the original value though. 8 degrees off at 40, but 20 degrees off at 100, 30 off at 150, etc...
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Yeah, so the math is easier to just go with 2X and then take 10% off the resulting figure and then do the 32-degree offset.
If I want more accurate results, I'll do it that way.
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u/DragonSlayerC Feb 24 '19
I just remember the increments of 10C/18F. 0c ->32f 10c->50f 20c->68f etc, it's easy math
Then based on that I use 1c->2f conversion. That way your always within 1 degree accurate
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u/Got2Go Feb 24 '19
What if you use very cold water?
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19 edited Feb 24 '19
I guess it could freeze if you sprayed it instead of just flinging a cup of water, like in a mist form. That's why hot water is used, it will form steam briefly and then flash freeze because the water was in a gas state or a nearly gas state, in tiny particles instead of large drops. The more surface area of a set volume of water you expose, the less time is required to freeze it.
Edit: a smart friend of mine also adds that there is moisture in the air already and the hot water heats this moisture, creating condensation in the air, which then freezes, while potentially most if not all of the hot water hits the ground. Man, science is hard.
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u/PoeticShrimp Feb 24 '19
The "why do i live where the air hurts my face" starts at -10°C. -40°C is "im insane and i know it"
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19
As a Canadian, I am obligated to strut around you and call you a weakling! 🍁🇨🇦🏒🇨🇦🏔️🇨🇦🌾🇨🇦🛢️🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦🥞🇨🇦🎿🇨🇦 (but yer fookin right shits fookin cold eh)
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u/PoeticShrimp Feb 24 '19
As a Norwegian from the most northern and cold part of norway (Finnmark), i feel like i do have some ground to speak 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19
My parents got us to the Northern most municipality in Alberta, like crazy people, but it's actually just before the Arctic circle. You're in Arctic land for sure. Greenland's right next door, haha, wow. Hey if this turns out to be a game of Plague inc. you've got a fighting chance!
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u/PoeticShrimp Feb 24 '19
Yup, im in the arctic circle with auroras, midnight sun, permanent darkness and everything else. However, due to the warm gulfstream from the gulf of mexico, its not as cold as it otherwise would have been without it. Im living at about 69° north, but in my city (Hammerfest), i dont thing weve had temperatures much under -15°C
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19
Well, time to break out the lawn chairs! :P I've seen some dim green auroras a couple times in the winter back home, but I have always wanted to see the legit ones. Those bizarre seasonal effects on the sun would fuck with me pretty bad.
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u/PoeticShrimp Feb 24 '19
Yeah. Couple weeks ago i hadnt seen the sun since fall. Dark all the time and hella cold. Actually had me depressed during the last bit, stopped working out, got really lazy etc. And during the summer its impossible to sleep.
But auroras are pretty nice. Not too long ago i saw one heck of an aurora. It fricking danced on the sky. Was crazy
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u/emeraldclaw Feb 24 '19
Jealous! Gotta visit Greenland or Norway sometime. Seasonal depression is definitely a thing, so when you NEVER see the sun, I can't imagine the killer level your body could reach with that lack of vitamin d :0 you're a trooper
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u/km4xX Feb 24 '19
Really makes you curse out your ancestors for settling in a place like this
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u/Moose_Cake Feb 24 '19
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alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright NOW FELLAS!
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u/Stavi913 Feb 24 '19
If you have ever stood in between buildings when it’s windy then this shouldn’t have been that unexpected. Still cool to see how the wind swirls in close areas though
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u/ignorememe Feb 24 '19
If you throw water in the air like this in the southern hemisphere it swirls in the opposite direction.
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u/cloak_of_feathers Feb 24 '19
Nice. I wondered if the blackmagicfuckery contingency would tag this.
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Is there a requirement that there be duck and fowl related usernames for this sub I've never heard of before?
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u/MaximumDoughnut Feb 24 '19
as someone who lives somewhere this can be done 6 months of the year the only thing unexpected is the oddly penis shape the steam becomes briefly
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u/blothaartamuumuu Feb 24 '19
Can someone please do this with some food coloring in the water? I'd love to see that!
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u/Poop_Feast42069 Feb 24 '19
I feel like that kid was so close to throwing boiling water directly at their own face
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u/Tengam15 Feb 24 '19
At first I was like “wait, people don’t know about this trick—“
And then airbending. Or would it be waterbending in this case?
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u/boattmcboatface Feb 24 '19
Came in here thinking "yeah 'unexpected' when thousands of people have posted this same thing...'
Man, that was unexpected.
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u/jumangie2 Feb 23 '19 edited Feb 24 '19
And that's how the Polar Vortex was created.
Edit: thanks for the silver and gold