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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-05 22:11
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Alex Bruce
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Actually heated handle bar grips is not as insain and over complicated as you might think
As my motorbike has them Let me tell you, 120 km/h winds at 3 degrees above freezing (Celsius)... with rain, thick gloves don't do it, more importantly the more material you have between you and the handle bar grips means the less feel you have for the bike. Bikes communicate a fair bit of information through the handlebars, the less muffled those signals are, the safer you are. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-05 22:23
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rbonvall
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Bahamas National Guard is aware that bats are mammals. What do you do now? |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-05 23:08
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Jeff Grigg
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1. Gloves.
2. Consider "Hot Hands" heating products: Small pads that get warm when exposed to the air. Using both together should keep your hands pretty warm. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 00:42
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Vic Tim
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Use softer lead. Or real lead, as in Pb which is why we call graphite 'lead'. No residue. Somehow I doubt the astronauts would have the same problem with lead poisoning as, say, schoolkids with nervous chewing habits. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 00:45
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Vic Tim
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I know I'm going to get the Captian Obvious Award for this, but... This is asinine. Captcha: haero |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 00:58
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Procedural
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Wait a few hundreds of thousands of years for all of this to decompose, the whole enclosed atmosphere to superheat, create new primordial ooze, and wait for it all to evolve consciousness again. I'm immortal and bored anyway, so I can wait a little while. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 03:33
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noes
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yeah, a grip in/on teh handles. That will work well! Nevermind that the cold comes from the OUTside, from the chilly wind. Frozen outside, fried from the inside.
A great career in open source and javashit awaits. |
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The average fit cyclist can put about 150 watts of energy into their bicycle's pedals going uphill, and much less than that (75 watts?) at other times. Olympian cycling athletes put about 300 watts of energy into their bicycle's pedals.
So, if you wanted to pedal as hard as you did on a 3 speed bicycle going uphill, but go nowhere, using a generator on the pedals you'd get just a little more than the equivalent heat of a 60 watt lightbulb out of those handlebars. Let's say you realize this and use a battery. A car battery for a compact car (wouldn't that be fun to lug around) usually stores about 60 A/h. That's enough to heat your handlebars to the equivalent heat you get from your rear window defogger for about 4 hours. At least your handlebars won't have frost on them! For reference, your hairdryer uses 1875 watts... Physics is a bitch, isn't it. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 04:09
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DH
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Oh, once it hits civilian use, you'll love a UNATCO-brand synthetic heart. It circulates not only blood but a steady concentration of mechanochemical power cells, smart phagocytes, and liposomes containing prefab diamondoid machine parts, resulting in upgraded performance for all installed augmentations. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 05:13
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wonkoTheSane
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Actually thats a bit of an urban legend.. Can you imagine using a pencil in 0 G? Where would the tiny flakes of excess graphite go? in your eyes, thats where! :) Unless they had a special space pencil... perhaps with some kind of sucker attachment to suck up the excess... |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 05:16
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wonkoTheSane
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DAMN YOU AND YOUR FASTER RESPONSE!!!! |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 05:47
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dtech
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Evolution creates one dominant species that mainly occupies itself by reading and posting stupid things on a global network. What do you do? |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 07:48
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RF
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And the reason for that is to avoid hypothermia. In carrying out this suggestion, one would be reversing the effects of a very important human adaptation that allows survival in extreme cold. The guy who suggested gloves sort of screwed up the evolutionary process in this case, and has allowed these idiots to live longer and as such be able to pee into the gene pool, making the world an even /better/ place in which to live. Great going. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 11:06
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moz
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You'll never make a scientist with that sort of attitude. What you should do is ride a tandem and wear as little as you feel you can get away with. Carry a fan or a whip if you're still too hot. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 13:33
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Gabelstaplerfahrer
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If you are going to make it complicated, at least make it useful. The world's warmest clothing is made by Gerbing's, and now they sell LiPo-battery heated gloves with adjustable heat. Let me tell you, that stuff is awesome! Easy to use and very comfy, but technologically more complicated than normal gloves. At least it's designed by experts...
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 14:12
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Anon.
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Join in. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-06 21:24
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Robin Goodfellow
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That's actually an urban legend (check snopes). A private company, Fischer, developed a pressurized ink pen without NASA funding then sold some of them to NASA. Prior to this, NASA used pencils. Also, the Soviets switched to using the space pen shortly after it was available on the market. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 02:45
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SQB
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Welcome mister Vampire. What do you do now? |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 05:39
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Vic Tim
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i still think you should just use real lead on everything including radiation-proof toothpicks. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 08:43
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havokk
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Steal your bike. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 09:06
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Steve
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I actually remember buying one of those "space pens" back in the 1960s when I was in high school. They were pretty cheap. I seem to recall that they tended to leak ink (at least the consumer versions, not the NASA versions). |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 13:41
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The voice of reason
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Laugh at the national guard for not knowing that silver bullets are for werewolves and getting drunk - they have nothing to do with vampires.
That said, since the national guard is launching silver bullets in my direction I will use said silver bullets to get nice and toasted, thereby eliminating the problem with having cold hands. captcha: appellatio - is that some kind of sexual exploit with a piece of fruit? |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 17:36
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Anonymous Coward
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Holy crap, so that's what happened! |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 23:29
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Rand
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This isn't quite true. Vampire myths evolved over a long period of time, there isn't just one absolute set of rules. In most myths silver is considered a holy metal and effective against all undead/unholy monsters, including vampires (for a recent example, see the Blade movies). |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-07 23:36
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nwbrown
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Captain Obvious awards are not given to people who can't spell "Captain". What do you do now? |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 03:51
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csrster
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I thought the correct (and traditional) response was "Buy a car you stinking hippy!".
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 06:15
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Frats
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_warmer ?
Work like a charm :) |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 08:09
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anon
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You're doing OK if he's using his hands |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 08:30
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JimM
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Not to pick you up on your genetics (I know someone else did that already) but I have a female friend who always tries to end arguments she's coming off badly in by saying "Well, none of us are experts." It's an interesting inversion of your point - groups of men refuse to admit they know nothing; my friend refuses to admit that anyone else knows anything! I don't see that as being a problem - I'm pretty sure the idea was to warm the hand, not sear the flesh (a 60 watt light bulb gets pretty hot at close contact). Not to mention cybermen... |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 10:55
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Wayne
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Not only that, but a 60 watt bulb is not just putting out heat. For some reason, 60 watt bulbs waste a fair bit of their energy input by putting out visible light instead of maximizing their heat output. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 11:50
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pscs
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Only a negligible amount :) BTW, some cars have heated steering wheels, (and they're great on cold days!). You can hardly feel the heat if you just touch them, but they're nice and cosy once you keep your hands there for a few seconds. I'd suspect the power output is just a few watts, if that (far, far less than a heated rear window), otherwise it would damage the leather of the steering wheel, and it would be too hot to hold comfortably (which would be sort of dangerous...) Of course, the problem with heated handlebars is that the main loss of heat would be on the outside of the hand, not where the handlebar is. With a heated steering wheel the main loss of heat is the freezing cold steering wheel that's been sat outside in the sub-zero night. Your hairy skin is quite good at insulating against loss of heat to still air, but not against touching something cold or rapidly moving cold air. So, heated gloves would be far more effective than heated handlebars, whereas a heated steering wheel works fine. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 12:00
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amischiefr
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So buy a god damned car ffs! 10 Degrees + 60 MPH = fucking cold dumbass!! |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 13:07
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Jeff L.
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Yeah, gloves don't cut it. If they're thick enough to block the cold, they're dangerous. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 13:10
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Jeff L.
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This is the WTF post here--from someone who thinks buying a $20,000 car is a better solution than heated handgrips--a $75 solution. Dumbass. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 14:27
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Vic Tim
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Fail. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 17:01
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Schmitter
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I can't beleive that no one has mentioned the snowmobile. Heated grips when worn in combination with thin plam, thick outside gloves works well into the -20F area.
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-08 17:33
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Tina Woodward
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Holy Smokes dude, talking about time to take off the gloves! Wow.
Jiff www.anonymize.us.tc |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-09 01:30
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Frank
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Go through your pockets, looking for loose change! :)
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-09 11:33
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mac
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Post to the The Daily WTF.
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-09 14:54
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Lastchance
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Bar muffs. Big mitten-like things that go over the whole bar end. Keeps the wind off and lets you operate the controls. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-10 06:39
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dr. Hannibal Lecter
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And so, on your next interview, ask your candidates:
As you pedaled to work, you thought to yourself, why hasn't anyone ever invented a bicycle with heated handlebar grips? What do you do? There are actually only two replies: 1. gloves 2. doors |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-09-10 11:58
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Bryan Kowalchuk
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I have handguards and heated grips on my dual-sport motorcycle. On cold wet days it's great. When your hands get wet, they actully steam the water out of your gloves; pure luxury.
On a bicycle? You would need over 20W of power to make it work effectively. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2008-12-31 02:32
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Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2009-06-15 14:32
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it-is-so-obvious
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this "hand warming system" does not exist
it does indeed. a series of flexible tubes. heating the hands. I personally do have one for each hand. man blood, guys. man blood. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2010-02-10 11:58
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farthead
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Wow tech types are stupid.
Motorcycle or snowmobile heated handgrips + battery = what you want. all done zero design needed. I am amazed at how inept at using google most people are, it took me 6 seconds to find all I needed to answer this. |
Re: Classic WTF: The Complicator's Gloves
2010-05-21 15:42
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Vovin
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Crayons?
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