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Captain Mayday

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Water freezes really fast.
« on: November 14, 2007, 08:16:00 am »
Maybe too fast. We're talking like, it's being frozen in the process of being pumped out into exposed air, fast.
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2007, 09:00:00 am »
Hmm, I wonder if you could make a tower out of ice using this method  :)
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2007, 09:29:00 am »
I can imagine making a really tall pumping tower and coating it in ice using this, kind of like the flowing wax on burning candles. However, wouldn't the ice stop up the flow?
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2007, 05:07:00 pm »
Normally, moving water is harder to freeze.  This is something the Dwarf Fortress universe doesn't model, though (at least, not at the moment).
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 08:08:00 pm »
Water will freeze that fast if it's cold enough.
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2007, 09:02:00 pm »
Yeah, but so would dwarves.
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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2007, 11:34:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Seryntas:
<STRONG>Yeah, but so would dwarves.</STRONG>

No, humans would.

Dwarves are 80% beer.

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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2007, 06:40:00 am »
... and beer is 85% water.
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mickel

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Re: Water freezes really fast.
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2007, 07:06:00 am »
Unlike humans, dwarves require alcohol. Perhaps this is not just alcoholism, but a deeper biological process - perhaps the dwarves require alcohol just like we require, say, vitamin B? Given that they move a lot slower without it, it's not far-fetched to think it's involved in their metabolic processes. And could not those metabolic processes generate some sort of anti-freeze?   :D
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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2007, 07:07:00 am »
By the way, if water freezes this fast, how about a water cannon that spurts out a quick jet of high-pressure water that freezes into an ice spear in the air and skewers the goblins?
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2007, 01:59:00 am »
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Originally posted by mickel:
<STRONG>By the way, if water freezes this fast, how about a water cannon that spurts out a quick jet of high-pressure water that freezes into an ice spear in the air and skewers the goblins?</STRONG>

Or we could use pumps and just crush them with large blocks of ice.  :)

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