15th June 2005, 12:27 AM
Cold resistance is easily doable on something like the DS. One important note! There can't be any moisture inside the system before going into freezing temps. The expanding ice will destroy the electronics easily. So long as it went in dry, I see no reason why it couldn't survive that.
You want to impress me? Take that thing to a flowing lava stream. Your shoes will MELT just standing 4 feet away from something like that. Ever seen scientists studying actively flowing lava? They were these huge thermal suits with just a tiny slit for light, and just cracking open the top of a tube is enough to get them shielding that one slit!
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That leads me to wonder how exactly Jedi masters manage to not get burnt to cinders... Well, if they are strong enough to withstand 4000 degree air, seriously, why can't they just GRAB a light saber blade like it's nothing?
You want to impress me? Take that thing to a flowing lava stream. Your shoes will MELT just standing 4 feet away from something like that. Ever seen scientists studying actively flowing lava? They were these huge thermal suits with just a tiny slit for light, and just cracking open the top of a tube is enough to get them shielding that one slit!
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That leads me to wonder how exactly Jedi masters manage to not get burnt to cinders... Well, if they are strong enough to withstand 4000 degree air, seriously, why can't they just GRAB a light saber blade like it's nothing?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)