Post Race!

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[Part 1]
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Originally Posted by dday9

You can see water that deep? I can't see past a few inches of water.

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The water clarity in mountain lakes is quite impressive. The water clarity in Louisiana bayous is impressive, too, though in a different way. Gators would be a lot less effective in mountain lakes.

I've only seen clear water like that once. It was so weird to actually see where the fish are.

Going to GIF's I see.

Almost hypnotizing.

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Originally Posted by dday9

Going to GIF's I see.

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There's GIFs too but they're rare.

56701 - La Vie En Rose

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Originally Posted by dday9

Back to binary talk I see.

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Yep, you can't keep the binary down.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

$0. My sister bought it for my father kind of on a whim as a birthday present. As for the bike I am swapping, which has (I think) the same frame, I forget what I paid, but it was under $500, while the bike my sister bought was more than that. There may well have been various discounts and other things that reduced the price. In fact, there almost certainly were, as I bought it at a place where I can always get 20-30% discounts if I wait long enough.

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Hmmm, that price range is for standard mountain bikes rather than racing models, and that means that there may be some lingering doubt about your mountain bike's ability to cope with the 1000 mile all terrain trips you take. Even so, grabbing your Dad's bike whenever you need it might be the cheapest solution.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I could do with out the binary drivel.

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Well you are the only programmer I know who is overtly anti-binary and put off by the sight of 1s and 0s. :p

1010111000o102

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Originally Posted by Witis

Well you are the only programmer I know who is overtly anti-binary and put off by the sight of 1s and 0s. :p

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1's and 0's are quite phallic.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

By the way, I'm not claiming the kind of cold resistance in those videos. I did go swimming in water as cold as the first video, but for a good cause: I lost the third of five fishing lures I had for an eight day trip when a trout bit the lure off the line, then dropped it. I could see it in about six feet of water a ways off shore, so I went in after it. I spent some time trying to fish it from the bottom with the rod tip, but when that failed, I dove for it a couple times. In the end, I wasn't able to retrieve it, as I couldn't stay under water for more than a few seconds. The diaphragm begins spasming as soon as you submerge in 32 degree water, so holding your breath becomes exceedingly difficult. On the second or third dive, I managed to cover the lure with sediment, and wasn't able to find it after that.

After the relatively short time spent in the water (5-10 minutes), and a couple dives, I was fairly hypothermic, and had to return to bed to warm up.

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Hence you see my point about Wim Hof's abilities potentially being CGIed. That or he has combined a genetic advantage and then trained himself over many years to be able to withstand the freezing temperatures like he does. His Wiki page makes his world records seem legit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof. It is suggested that Hof "seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines (flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques." They would have to be quite progressive meditation techniques to create that sort of response.

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Originally Posted by dday9

Almost hypnotizing.

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It would be more hypnotizing if they jiggled.

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Originally Posted by boops boops

[part 1]
bor

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Not quite, [Part 1] bin

56728 is the Babba Yaga, though she is usually depicted as an old woman.

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Originally Posted by Witis

Hence you see my point about Wim Hof's abilities potentially being CGIed. That or he has combined a genetic advantage and then trained himself over many years to be able to withstand the freezing temperatures like he does. His Wiki page makes his world records seem legit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof. It is suggested that Hof "seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines (flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques." They would have to be quite progressive meditation techniques to create that sort of response.

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Yeah, but he's not unique. There is that woman who did the swim in the Antartctic just for grins. She has been studied a bit more, and it turns out there is a small segment of the population that handles heat loss differently from the bulk of people. It may just be genetic.

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Originally Posted by dclamp

1010111000o102

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precisely.

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Originally Posted by dclamp

1's and 0's are quite phallic.

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Ah, there is a coder in the house. =)