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Liquid Nitrogen and Swimming Pools Don't Mix
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:17 am
by TexasStooge
What's dumb? Dumping liquid nitrogen in a hotel swimming pool, although the fog effect looks cool though.
What's dumber? Jumping in the pool that recently had liquid nitrogen dumped in.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:19 pm
by Ptarmigan
I've eaten ice cream that was frozen by liquid nitrogen. Really good stuff. It's called Saturnian Ice Cream because liquid nitrogen is at -320 degrees Fahrenheit, the same as Saturn's atmosphere.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:06 pm
by Category 5
I've been sprayed with liquid nitrogen before (accidently) Frostbite pretty much instantly.
What an idiot.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:48 pm
by whereverwx
I don’t think that’s dumb. It was actually a very cool experiment, if you ask me. Besides, that was a very small amount of liquid nitrogen that was dumped into the pool, which, when compared to it, is huge and would have a very diminutive affect on the water temperature. A good analogy would be dumping buckets of ice into the Gulf of Mexico and expecting it to cool.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:53 pm
by senorpepr
calamity wrote:I don’t think that’s dumb. It was actually a very cool experiment, if you ask me. Besides, that was a very small amount of liquid nitrogen that was dumped into the pool, which, when compared to it, is huge and would have a very diminutive affect on the water temperature. A good analogy would be dumping buckets of ice into the Gulf of Mexico and expecting it to cool.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The water temperature probably wasn't
that much different after the liquid N[sub]2[/sub] was added. That was a good analogy, calamity.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:36 pm
by O Town
Iagreetoo. They use that stuff at
SeaWorldall the time in the whale tank, and the whales and people swimming with them are just fine.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:06 pm
by Cryomaniac
Ptarmigan wrote:I've eaten ice cream that was frozen by liquid nitrogen. Really good stuff. It's called Saturnian Ice Cream because liquid nitrogen is at -320 degrees Fahrenheit, the same as Saturn's atmosphere.
Oh hell yeah, I've had that, it's nice as hell, and the advantage is that it can be made to order. When I had it we made it ourselves at university, but I'm pretty sure someone would charge a huge amount for it in a resturant.