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Flashpoint
02-09-2007, 08:44 AM
Sometimes they actually hit on good ideas...for hockey!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6295567.stm

Can you say "Outdoor Rink in Texas"?

:D

The US military has appealed to scientists to help develop a novel weapon - artificial black ice.

The plastic-like substance, the brainchild of the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), would be used to force slip-ups from enemies.

The "polymer ice" would be designed for hot, arid environments, "as found in Iraq and Afghanistan", it said.

Quick, somebody email the NHL!
Looger
02-09-2007, 08:45 AM
wouldn't it get carved up by the blades???
kipperfan
02-09-2007, 08:48 AM
I take it the substance they are going to use will be similar to the substance used to make the "ice" on the "hockey treadmill" one of which being in the Lindsay Park complex.

If so....maybe its the reverse...the military is taking technology that the Ice Hockey industry has already created!
fanforever1986
02-09-2007, 08:54 AM
little does the US know, the taliban has skate blades built in to the bottom of their shoes...designed with the help of inspector gadget.
Fozzie_DeBear
02-09-2007, 09:17 AM
Are they developing an armoured zamboni?
GoinAllTheWay
02-09-2007, 10:42 AM
Are they developing an armoured zamboni?

:D
Ford Prefect
02-09-2007, 11:07 AM
Black ice ... hmmm ... might be a little hard to follow the puck.
Looger
02-09-2007, 11:15 AM
bah, we'll just highlight it with a dot, and blue - pass, red - shoot!
Ford Prefect
02-09-2007, 11:23 AM
^^^ That's very Foxy.
tkflames
02-09-2007, 11:26 AM
Hehehe...this reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong throwing a banana and all the other mario carts slipping on it...
Fozzie_DeBear
02-09-2007, 03:39 PM
Good point maybe the Canadian Forces should use banana peels (if they can afford it)
Flashpoint
02-09-2007, 04:30 PM
Anyway, I forwarded the article to a member of the hockey media. They said they would take it to the GM's meetings in Florida and might mention it if the subject of bad ice came up.

Who knows. Maybe we will need to come up with white pucks someday for markets in the southern US.
CaptainCrunch
02-09-2007, 04:35 PM
And the new commish of the NHL




http://www.yojoe.com/action/00/00images/cobracommander9.jpg

Hail Cobra and his new roster of super weapons