OT: Coolest sound ever - golf ball on frozen lake

[Commander Kinsey]

[Dean Hoffman]

It sounds a little bit like the radar sound on the old TV shows. There was a familiar tone way at the end too. I bet everyone of us made that sound whether cold, hot, tired, hungry, etc.

[David_B]

Did you watch and listen at this link found in the comments?

[Transition Zone]

It still depends.

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Golf ball is one thing but skating on thin ice is nuts.

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On Oct 25, 2020 at 4:24:13 PM MST, "David_B" wrote <xOnlH.197982$ [e-mail]:

The sounds at the start sound a lot like when we through rocks across the ice on the lake near us.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

So where are the holes? One assumes you keep on losing balls? Brian

[Commander Kinsey]

[Commander Kinsey]

On what? Supply examples with commentary.

[Commander Kinsey]

Why? Are you under the impression being cold is somehow bad for you?

[Commander Kinsey]

Cool! And I've just remembered where I first heard that sound. As an 8 year old playing on thin ice on the local reservoirs. It's the ice cracking and echoing through the whole sheet of ice.

Me and my friend at that age were told off by some ice skaters that were skating in the middle of the reservoir (it was thicker ice then), because we were smashing up the ice at the edge. The morons actually believed that the ice in the middle was held up by the ice at the edge, and that if we continued the whole thing would sink. FFS even at 8 I had a better grasp of physics than them.

[Commander Kinsey]

Through rocks are ones that get threw to the water underneath? Sorry, threwed. Er, thrown.

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On Oct 27, 2020 at 11:54:28 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0s5tg212wdg98l@glass>:

Oops!

[Commander Kinsey]

Are you doing what I do and thinking in audio inside your head? As I type things like through, I "hear" the word and have to consult the rest of the sentence to determine which one to use.

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On Oct 27, 2020 at 2:08:42 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0s5zoskowdg98l@glass>:

Yup. Absolutely I do that. And today running around multitasking as I make meals, help kids with school work (their school is being stupid... and they have some actual questions), responding to too much here, working on a car, helping someone with tech issues (nothing big... an older person I live near but doing it all online because of the pandemic... oh, and playing a form of online 3d checkers with a friend.

[David_B]

Indeed it is.

Some interesting images here:-

Canal ice breaking boats - worth a Google!

You've led a charmed life! ;-)

[FromTheRafters]

The ice at the edges does indeed help to support the rest.

[Commander Kinsey]

Teachers are usually quite thick. The saying is "if you can't do, teach". Home schooling is best if you have the time.

I did find it funny when my teacher would say "don't be smart". They didn't like it when I told them that was the point of school.

Two things that always need attention - cars and computers. I have an 18 year old car and 6 computers to maintain.

Er..... I just sorted my elderly neighbour's cordless phones. Does that count? He's lucky he didn't blow up his house, he had put alkaline batteries in it instead of rechargeables. I guess at trickle charge they don't blow up, just leak. And as I've said before, I ignore the "pandemic", it's just an extreme version of flu, and we don't panic every time one of those comes round.

I'm playing Fallout 4.

[Commander Kinsey]

I want a

I've broken ice by hand. Have you ever swum across a semi frozen lake? It's quite cool to make a channel through the ice.

I vandalised a lot more than ice. Did I ever mention the CO2 extinguishers?

[Commander Kinsey]

Bullshit. It floats. Think of ice that large without water under it. It couldn't hold its own weight. The middle ice is supported by the water alone. A large sheet of ice in the water will not sink if it's not attached.