[OT] Star Wars technology for safer rinks

[billhoward]

Instead of putting up netting around the entire rink, consider this:

Resurrect the Star Wars missile shield at Lynah. Buy up the leftover stock of Fox Sports smart pucks. Put a couple lasers in the rafters. Track the pucks. (This would make for one hell of a USCHO gametracker, too.) When the pucks leave the rink at high speed, activate the lasers and vaporize the pucks. And from time to time, replace the championship banners that caught fire.

Done properly, fans in the first couple rows might also get rid of unwanted birthmarks and facial hair. A season ticketholder might even undo that cliche butterfly tattoo.

[The Rancor]

it would also save the lynah staff from having to clean up newspapers and flying fish by vaporizing them before they hit the ice, if it works in two directions.

[jy3]

i dont know if my forehead would rather have been burned than bounced upon.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Can you imagine the stink of vaporized fish at the Sucks game?  ::yark::

[French Rage]

We can't use a missile defense system instead of netting, because we need something that actually works and is worth the money. :-D :-D :-D

[Trotsky]

Lockheed Martin will build a prototype for only $30 billion.  They never forget who they're working for.

[David Harding]

They could zap candy bars, too.

[Robb]

Keith,

Do you want to call the Men in Black, or should I?  Trotsky must be eliminated....

[billhoward]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:  Can you imagine the stink of vaporized fish at the Sucks game?  [/q]

If anyone recalls high tech-incinerator proposals of the ~1980s, the promise was that when the heat was high enough, nothing smelled bad and you were left with was a little fly ash, no more. I think reality was there were some incredibly corrosive gases that did a number on event stainless-steel tubing.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]billhoward Wrote: If anyone recalls high tech-incinerator proposals of the ~1980s, the promise was that when the heat was high enough, nothing smelled bad and you were left with was a little fly ash, no more. I think reality was there were some incredibly corrosive gases that did a number on event stainless-steel tubing.
[/q]Actually trash to energy works reasonably well. We have one here and it seems better than burying all that stuff. Of course we are also one of the most recycling counties in the US.:-)

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Actually, it doesn't take much to do a number on stainless tubing.  Boil some salt water in stainless at pressure, and you can make it shatter like glass.  We did it to one of our boilers at one of our H2 plants.

I believe aqueous sulfuric and nitric acid will do it as well.

[David Harding]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

 Actually, it doesn't take much to do a number on stainless tubing.  Boil some salt water in stainless at pressure, and you can make it shatter like glass.  We did it to one of our boilers at one of our H2 plants.

I believe aqueous sulfuric and nitric acid will do it as well.[/q]

We filled a big, new stainless steel water system with what we thought was veyr clean water, then let it sit for a while.  Some microbes got in little crevices, ate the sulpher, and excreted sulphuric acid.  The whole system leaked like a seive.

[Josh '99]

::bang::

[KeithK]

[q]Do you want to call the Men in Black, or should I? Trotsky must be eliminated....[/q]No need to call.  They always know... :-D

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]David Harding Wrote:
The whole system leaked like a seive.
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SIEVE!  SIEVE!  SIEVE!