@DavidStratton What do you do? Are you a programmer?

@PaulVargas I was, until about 8 months ago. Now I'm a business analyst. But I'm still a programmer at heart.

@DavidStratton why you go dark side on us?

@fredsbend but wait, I grew up Baptist and I know at least some of them were also theistic evolutionists...

@fredsbend There is a typo, which makes it invalid.

Why would denominations be in favour of typo errors?

Like whattttt?

@AJHenderson Ah-ha! They must be Catholic!

@El'endiaStarman haha, somehow I don't think that quite works out

@Zoe perhaps it is a divinely inspired typo

@AJHenderson Put someone's head in a sauna and their feet in an ice bath and they'll be just fine on average!

hmm, ice sauna challenge

manage to dump a bucket of ice water on your head in a sauna before it all melts...

that sounds like an actual challenge

@AJHenderson Woosh!

Well...I doubt the ice would actually melt that fast.

@El'endiaStarman then clearly the sauna isn't hot enough

@El'endiaStarman Unless it's dry ice.

Heat capacity time!

@Zoe Speaking of which, Destin (of Smarter Every Day) actually did the ice bucket challenge with dry ice!

And relatedly, Matt Parker of Numberphile did the dice bucket challenge.

my brothers in law wanted to make a boiling water challenge

Eeep. I feel like that would be more painful, and perhaps more damaging...

nominate Justin Beiber, the Koch brothers and Obama to donate a trillion dollars to charity or dump a bucket of boiling water on their head

Ahh-ha ha.

and then dump a simulated bucket of boiling water on their head

and run off screaming

@El'endiaStarman Wow, must be 100x colder

@Zoe except it isn't, unless a piece of dry ice gets stuck

doesn't matter how cold you put in it, liquid water can't get colder than 32 degrees

unless you put in additives

or change the pressure

@AJHenderson Except in the case of supercooled water, which has to be very pure.

@AJHenderson That's true

But I felt like he put water in the dry ice mixture

@El'endiaStarman yes, or the other two criteria I added

@Zoe More likely the other way around. All the steam/fog you see is the CO2 escaping from underwater.

@El'endiaStarman Yea same thing, dry ice into water. Because if not, he wouldn't get that wet

Speaking of which, several summers ago, my brother and I put dry ice in a bottle half-filled with water and turned it into a rocket/bomb, just like you can do with baking soda and vinegar.

And that reminds me of the time we had one so powerful and so good that it literally pushed all the dust on the road away, out to about a 10-foot radius.

@El'endiaStarman we used to do that with those containers you get from the 50 cent toy vending machines

@El'endiaStarman that's awesome

we'd do it with vinegar and baking soda for those ones though, in the top part we put a baking soda paste to keep it in place, then vinegar in the bottom, super glue the edges, let it dry, then flip it and run

it'd send the bottom part a pretty good distance in the air when it broke free

Yeah, the one I talked about was vinegar and baking soda. Didn't make that clear.

Nice. We didn't do that sort of thing though; usually the cap busted off or the side split open. That particularly powerful one was an example of the latter; the Sprite bottle basically split from cap to bottom.

What we also did to get more impressive results was throw them like 10 feet straight up into the air.

we had all kinds of rigged up things that I would make. I also made my own rocket motor igniters

using tissue paper and steel wool

and wire leads and a 9 volt

Oooh, nice. Said brother was definitely a model rocket enthusiast. Made the rockets out of paper and bought the engines/launcher/igniters/etc.

I'm amazed I never got in to trouble as a kid, I was a hacker and a bit of a pyro, I was just always smart about it

@Zoe Oh yes, I've seen that once before. Very impressive indeed.

I looked at the "Local church" question again, and you make it clear that the service is not only a little unusual for Christianity, but bring up specific issues of concern. Apparently the booklets are studied as much as or more than the Bible. That isn't a healthy sign. Unfortunately I know little about them, except a little of their history and are regarded as more stand-offish than most groups.