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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • A Michigan-based snowmaking company, SMI Snow Makers, is using the latest technology to create snow for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Their machines create snow crystals that are like two-week-old snow from Mother Nature. But while Mother Nature takes hours or days to manufacture the crystals, SMI's machines make the snow in 3 to 15 seconds.
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Комментарии • 41

  • @kwolf43
    @kwolf43 6 лет назад +5

    Wow great you guys have an excellent job I don't ski myself but I love the winter Olympics thanks for posting , the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics Winter Games brought me here.

  • @skillfulsugar
    @skillfulsugar 10 лет назад +4

    Thats actually really cool.

  • @IgorRogachev
    @IgorRogachev 10 лет назад +1

    They don't know about Syberia! There is free of charge snow landscape for the thousands miles around here for snow sports, including real mountains :-).

  • @castropianoforte
    @castropianoforte 10 лет назад +25

    What's the point of holding the Winter Olympics in a place where snow isn't guaranteed?

    • @ronczeks69
      @ronczeks69 10 лет назад +2

      You just need an enormous amounts of snow for WO. Transporting snow is troublesome and pretty much pointless.

    • @KomodoNameless
      @KomodoNameless 10 лет назад +8

      Games can be held anywhere. International Olympic Committee demands snow with specific density and humidity, so even if there is snow already it will have to be covered with this artificial one. These machines have to be on every Winter Olympic game, even if it takes place in Courchevel in French Alps or on Kamchatka peninsula or wherever.
      AFAIK these machines are being produced in Israel. So funnily enough they are buying snow from Jews.

    • @complex9288
      @complex9288 10 лет назад +3

      Komodo Saurian BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STARVING CHILDREN??? Lol jk. Olympics more important.

    • @mtadams2009
      @mtadams2009 8 лет назад

      +Jonathan Castro I am not sure there is any place that you can guarantee snow, I have skied all over the world and I have had great conditions and I also have been burnt, you just never know.

    • @ayxzer3226
      @ayxzer3226 5 лет назад

      Scott Gibson check out mt baker

  • @kkous28
    @kkous28 10 лет назад +1

    WoW! This is great!

  • @Orcamania5
    @Orcamania5 8 лет назад +2

    I guess their next destination is Pyeongchang, South Korea for 2018 Winter Olympics.

  • @delyfigoli
    @delyfigoli 10 лет назад +2

    MUY BUEN VIDEO ....

  • @johnlawson6203
    @johnlawson6203 9 лет назад +5

    These machines need to be(near mountains or glacier features) set up to increase or help rebuild snow pack densities for areas that rely on snow melt run off as a water source.

    • @a.j.deutsch1792
      @a.j.deutsch1792 7 лет назад +3

      John Lawson, wow that's genius.

    • @johnlawson6203
      @johnlawson6203 7 лет назад +2

      A.J. Deutsch its amazing how i have totally forgot about that comment. Many of the ideas i have are ridiculed since i am never in the position to make them come to fruition. im sincere. Thank you. A.J.

  • @plumbus8363
    @plumbus8363 4 года назад +1

    ssoo... if you used a peaty brown lake or river water, snow would be brown?

  • @tavita
    @tavita 10 лет назад +1

    This guy probably built the snow machine in the mall of Dubai. How many companies are in the snow business.

  • @geraldgodbold2043
    @geraldgodbold2043 6 лет назад

    Ok that makes sense

  • @scrapetv3826
    @scrapetv3826 10 лет назад +21

    Come to Toronto, I have a yard full of this crap you can have for free.

  •  10 лет назад

    Bizim kangallarda böyle aynı ama timsah yok memlekette orda bi sıkıntı var.

  • @Manipulate23
    @Manipulate23 Год назад

    Is it cold?

  • @sandmarchand2728
    @sandmarchand2728 10 лет назад

    Devoir faire de la neige artificielle dans un pays comme la Russie, c'est sûr que je n'y aurais pas cru!
    (tellement qu'il fait chaud en Sibérie)

    • @sandmarchand2728
      @sandmarchand2728 10 лет назад

      Evidemment ce n'est pas en Sibérie. J'espère que ce sera de beaux jeux. L'occasion de voyager, au fond. De découvrir.

    • @omskpravo55
      @omskpravo55 10 лет назад

      Сочи-не сибирь. Сочи это юг России. Там мы загораем!!!
      Это курорт

  • @kosycat1
    @kosycat1 6 лет назад +1

    The only thing is i wouldn't eat resort snow unless it was fresh all that fluoridated snowboard wax is not good

  • @elliottnunez1057
    @elliottnunez1057 10 лет назад

    fan jet and a ir and water any one know what they are ad if theyre still used today it looked like a fan jet at the beginning of video

    • @timmyteabag69
      @timmyteabag69 2 года назад +1

      I’m running one right now

    • @elliottnunez1057
      @elliottnunez1057 2 года назад

      @@timmyteabag69 fan jet ? Or air and water? Hunter Mt. in New York used to use fan jets 99 percent in the mid 80s. Now I think it’s all air and water. And all way above ground. Lol

    • @timmyteabag69
      @timmyteabag69 2 года назад

      @@elliottnunez1057 fan jet, i make snow for pipelines

  • @arctique4596
    @arctique4596 10 лет назад

    Highlighting

  • @Neueregel
    @Neueregel 10 лет назад

    just frozen water

  • @calebwildman3556
    @calebwildman3556 10 лет назад +2

    Third!!!

  • @yokehuatgoh
    @yokehuatgoh 10 лет назад

    err no.. i won't be eating unfiltered snow from lake waters.. 90% contaminated water with giardia. snow from the sky however is perfectly edible.

  • @fruzxy3462
    @fruzxy3462 6 лет назад

    ugh, those horrid jean, bleh