I was just thinking about this when it snowed earlier today here but what can we use to be more beneficial during the winter time as weapons and supplies.
I was thinking if you can find a co2 source or nitrous you can make ice spikes and shoot them at zeds and ideas on how we could do this.
ice can be used a a good source of water and keep flasks of water in your coats to keep them liquid
any other ideas or helpful hint please add them
Moved to proper category. This is your first and final warning. - NIE
|
well, I'll think more about this tomorrow when I'm conscious but...
I think it would be possible to make a form of air cannon using a tire pump. It would probably take a lot of work, but using the idea of a super soaker or a nerf gun, it would seem possible. Hell even those could be used, I would imagine a Nerf Gun would be more logical, maybe it'd be possible to form a mold based on the dimensions of a nerf dart and compensate for the weight of the dart, and then find a way to modify the air output of the gun itself... actually, scrap that I don't think a nerf gun could possibly pump enough power to kill someone...
Actually even a crossbow would work, get a mold for an icicle into the form of a bolt, stick it in the gun, put some eye protection on so if it shatters you'll still be able to see. Test that, I say crossbow because I think it'd be much more easier to use with an icicle than a bow
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
I like the crossbow idea but I think the ice would break during launch. unless it was super cooled but that would be a waste of liquid nitro , if you had any. I like the nerf idea but you would have ot construct a new nerf like gun to compensate for the weight of the ice and yet again that might break as well but im sure if I had the resources I could test the theory
If I remember right they tried to do this on Mythbusters. Doing the old movie ice bullet idea, but from what I remeber they couldn't do it. No matter what they tried the ice bullets either broke apart when firing them or shattered doing little or no damage to the balistic gel they used. Not real sure an ice crossbow bolt would do much better.
the fire from the gunpowder melted the bullet. Maybe someone should say something about an ice crossbow bolt.
What about if you had a cap on the end of your ice bolt to help spread the pressure, rather than have in all in one spot.
And
What temp does salt water freeze? If at a reasonable temp then maybe you could use that as it had a higher density?
HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE
Brain nearing melting point.... Temporary shutdown until cooling is complete....
One little idea for hunting/trapping I picked up reading The Mysterious Island. Don't know if it would work since it's coming from a work of fiction. Involved bending a sharp bone, freezing it, covering it in fat, and chucking it out somewhere in the woods. Some random animal would eat it. It would thaw which resulted in it springing back into place and you can guess what happens. Personally I don't think it would work. However if anyone knows of information confirming this I'd be happy to see it.
If you mixed the water with a more durable substance it might work. I'm a little sketchy on the physics of that, but usually when you mix a weak substance with a strong one it works. One might consider stockpiling ShapeLock(a molding plastic with a low melt temperature) and mixing metal shavings into the mixture, or molding it around a wire frame.
CZICRF(California Zombie Invasion Civilian Response Force)
NOTE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS: This post is purely speculation and should be taken as such. It is worth noting that I don't go postal on Halloween or kill everyone I see limping.
The problem with the ice crossbow would be that you would have to custom build a crossbow for a bolt. Bow strings lose some of their strength when wet and if the crossbow were made of something that melting water could mess up/destroy/ lessen effectiveness, then it may not be worth it. Then, you may come across the problem of wind resistance melting the icicle, but it may not melt it fast enough to be of concern. This is something that can be tested.
Now, if you had a way to account for the given problems, then I would say go for it. You could use a special mold for the "ice bolts" or even a set of molds.
"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening a mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." G.K. Chesterton
um in winter ice shouldn't melt unless it warm......
The human body gives off heat and ice that comes into contact with that heat will begin to melt. A clothing covered body part still gives off heat and the amount and type of cloth covering the body decides how much of that heat escapes the body. Fun experiment to try is to hold a piece of ice in your hand for a while and watch it melt as your body heats slowly warms the ice to melt. You may even see the ice crack if you hold it long enough. For more information on Ice, you can refer to this Wikipedia article by the same name: Ice.
This means that the ice absorbs as much heat as it can and what it cannot absorbs changes the matter's phase back to a liquid.
Let's say you are using a wooden crossbow. Every time you touch the crossbow, you transfer some amount of heat energy to the wood. That heat will stay with the wood for a short period of time and be transferred or "let off" to whatever else the wood touches or is near. If the ice touches the heated wood and then you happen to be holding the crossbow, you might have a bit of water to deal with on your moving parts due to the ice trying to retain it's phase.
Does that make my point more clear?
"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening a mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." G.K. Chesterton