Ready For a Swim

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May 17 2007, 2:26 pm
Look at these directions from my house to the Eiffel Tower, they are not wrong, just funny.

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May 17 2007, 2:29 pm
You know, Google should try to get a contract with an amphibious car company. Those are due for a comeback.
May 17 2007, 2:31 pm
In response to Jtgibson
Jtgibson wrote:
You know, Google should try to get a contract with an amphibious car company. Those are due for a comeback.

But where would we get the gas?
May 17 2007, 6:37 pm
In response to Shlaklava
It should be a hydrogen-powered car that uses electrolysis, so that it runs on... wait for it... water.

Whack in an inlet pipe, and hey presto - driving the car refuels it. How cool would that be? =P
May 17 2007, 7:11 pm
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
It should be a hydrogen-powered car that uses electrolysis

That's not exactly how electrolysis works, unless you're planning on having your 'car', with an overall (+) or (-) charge, travel along an electric current in the water all the way across the Atlantic. ;)
May 17 2007, 9:04 pm
In response to Gakumerasara
I meant that it would take in water, use electrolysis to separate the hydrogen and oxygen within the car (separated from the outside ocean), and then feed the hydrogen into its fuel tanks. No electric currents in the ocean itself are required.

In case you didn't realise, the suggestion was not made entirely seriously. =)
May 18 2007, 2:33 am
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
I meant that it would take in water, use electrolysis to separate the hydrogen and oxygen within the car (separated from the outside ocean), and then feed the hydrogen into its fuel tanks. No electric currents in the ocean itself are required.

In case you didn't realise, the suggestion was not made entirely seriously. =)

Oh I know. ;) But even if you had some type of internal hydrolysis system to generate hydrogen, you'd be doing little more than wasting energy, because splitting water takes more energy than does burning an equivalent amount of hydrogen. Otherwise there would be no energy crisis, and the universe would probably explode. ;P
May 18 2007, 3:01 am
In response to Gakumerasara
Gakumerasara wrote:
there would be no energy crisis, and the universe would probably explode. ;P

Ah well. You win some, you lose some... =P

I'm aware of these problems; it just amuses me to picture cars driving through water and refuelling themselves as they go...
May 18 2007, 7:20 am
i didn't know you cross the southern tip of a ghost Australia, either.
May 18 2007, 7:22 am
In response to Crispy
Did ya ever think of a water wheel?
When you drive it turns the wheel. (i.e. making electicity)
All you really need is a HUGE thrust to get ya moving. Probly something like a rocket...or two

(And yes I know I probly spelled something wrong but I`m not to worried about it)
May 18 2007, 9:27 am
In response to digitalmouse
digitalmouse wrote:
i didn't know you cross the southern tip of a ghost Australia, either.

Google made a fake continent there...why didn't you get that memo?
May 18 2007, 9:33 am
Where's the funny part?
May 18 2007, 9:37 am
In response to Hikki
I don't think it would give you enough energy. You'd need a stationary water wheel in flowing water, and sure, you could generate some, but it gradually slows down. You could use the energy you generate to turn the wheels, but then what would you be using to generate the electricity? You're better off with oars.
May 18 2007, 10:50 am
Heh my buddy did the samethign except from New York to Europe or something..It says to swim over 3,000 miles to Europe..0_0
May 18 2007, 11:32 am
In response to CaptFalcon33035
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
Where's the funny part?

Go ahead and swim for some 3 thousand miles over the atlantic and you will see why it is so funny
May 18 2007, 12:06 pm
In response to CaptFalcon33035
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
... You're better off with oars.

yes, oars powered by 50 people, all named George.
May 18 2007, 1:52 pm
In response to Gakumerasara
Gakumerasara wrote:
Oh I know. ;) But even if you had some type of internal hydrolysis system to generate hydrogen, you'd be doing little more than wasting energy, because splitting water takes more energy than does burning an equivalent amount of hydrogen. Otherwise there would be no energy crisis, and the universe would probably explode. ;P

On the other hand, hydrogen fission or fusion can generate considerably more energy than the energy required to divide water into its constituent parts. If you split atoms or otherwise go nuclear as part of the process, you get a heck of a lot more energy than just the expansion of gas when it touches an open flame.

It's the same concept behind a Bussard ramjet, except with an extra processing step involved.
May 18 2007, 2:31 pm
In response to digitalmouse
digitalmouse wrote:
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
... You're better off with oars.

yes, oars powered by 50 people, all named George.

And one of them is a clown, but he likes to be called by his middle name: Bob.
May 18 2007, 2:32 pm
In response to digitalmouse
digitalmouse wrote:
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
... You're better off with oars.

yes, oars powered by 50 people, all named George.

Was that a guess? Or was that found from my profile?
May 18 2007, 10:25 pm
In response to Shlaklava
I wasn't looking at the directions. :P
I told I couldn't see it. I guess it was kinda funny.

However, swim doesn't necessarily mean you have to dive into the water and start paddling yourself because the way I see it, swim just means, generally, to travel through water.
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