The Beauty of Water Blasters, Water Fights, and More
Artistic creations related to water fights, water warfare, and other fun water-blasting-related activities
It’s been awhile since I did one of these. Granted, while I haven’t played the video game, once-upon-a-time, I used to play Shadowrun, a role-playing game set in a similar sort-of dystopian future. I’ll post up a larger version of this graphic on iSoaker.com soon so that some of the other changes to this screen capture from Cyberpunk 2077 become more apparent.
Update: Posted on iSoaker.com.
Enjoy and soak on!
Posted a brief review on the Nerf Super Soaker Fortnite HC-E water blaster. This trigger-based water blaster doesn’t pack much power, really being equivalent to other small squirt blasters.
Really targeting fans of the Fortnite video game, not much value in terms of its soaking capabilities. Check out the review to read more details.
Soak on!
Image from universetoday.comWell, NASA has recently done some testing of its heat/flame control system that helps keep the launch platform safer during rocket launches. Granted, with an ability to release about half-a-million gallons of water in 60 seconds, we are REALLY talking about a water gun with output rated at ~1,066,667x. Its ability to produce the 100′ man-made geysers is a nice effect. Granted, there appear to be three primary nozzles so each one has an output of a mere ~355,556x
Not bad… I want one!
Soak on!
In light of all the privacy and data issues on Facebook (plus given the fact that I never really liked that platform), I’ve opted to remove the “iSoaker Warriors Facebook” page.
All-in-all, not much of a loss, truthfully. There wasn’t any major content on there, anyhow, and its visibility was mediocre at best. Besides, with what little free time I have these days, might as well focus on developing content where I find most enjoyment, anyhow.
Soak on!
Something a little different:
Though it may be awhile (and a little impractical) to try to load this stuff into a water blaster, scientists seem to have determined a new state for ice. Granted, they used some lasers and diamonds to compress water ice VII even more.
From the Nature Physics article: “Using time-resolved optical pyrometry and laser velocimetry measurements as well as supporting density functional theory–molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations, we document the shock equation of state of H2O to unprecedented extreme conditions and unravel thermodynamic signatures showing that ice melts near 5,000K at 190 GPa.”
To think steel melts at ~1,650K and here we are talking about water, but under some serious pressure.
Granted, with that heat and pressure, not sure one would want to be hit by it.
Soak on!
iSoak’D 162: Santa (2017) – Epilogue posted on iSoaker.com. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
England may be rainy, but it get EXTRA soaked recently when iSoaker was in town. Check out my iSoakin’ London pictures on iSoaker.com. Soak on!
Many avid water warfare enthusiasts proclaim “We want high performance water blasters!” Those familiar with the Super Soaker CPS Series will often point back to the water blaster models released between 1996-2002 and declare those are the blasters to serve as golden standards and preferably to beat!
However, taking a step back, what do we define as a high performance water blaster? Sure, attributes like styling, build, ergonomics, and durability are important, but they are not measures of performance (or are they?) For sake of argument, this current discussion will focus on water stream generation performance. However, even limiting the discussion to this still leaves plenty of room for a lot of complexity. Perhaps in some future article, we can view water blasters more holistically.
Last weekend, I finally had time when Mother Nature was cooperating well enough to permit me to do some range testing on some of my newer water blaster acquisitions. As noted on iSoaker.com, range tests were completed for the Water Warriors Drench Force, Water Warriors Steady Stream X, Xshot Typhoon Thunder, Nerf Super Soaker DartFire, Nerf Super Soaker Zombie Strike Revenge Infector, Adventure Force Super Storm, and Adventure Force Hydro Blitz. For those interested in the various stats, please visit the specific water blaster model’s page of interest. Instead of merely listing results in this post, I want to share some of my other observations from the range tests. Continue reading “Thoughts on Water Gun / Water Blaster Range Testing (2017)”
