What happens when you throw boiling water into the air

[VITE1]

When the temp is -20f.

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[Truck Guy]

I did not know it would do that!

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Truck Guy

I did not know it would do that!

Neither did I.

[Truck Guy]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Neither did I.

You think at our age and living in the frozen tundra of the North,
We would know these things!

[navyndi2]

pretty cool,

[78SA]

Why don't they ever show the ground where it hits?

[Kevin_73]

My balls have the exact same reaction to temps that low.

[Martini Girl]

Very cool!

[C5SilverBullet]

Awesome.

[jaxgator]

Pretty cool. Too bad it wasn't filmed in the daytime where we could really see it.

[Mirroredshades]

coolio

[Tossin]

Get some liquid nitrogen and you can do it year round. Freaks people out...

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Truck Guy

You think at our age and living in the frozen tundra of the North,
We would know these things!

In the Chicago area, we learn that at an early age.

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by Tossin

Get some liquid nitrogen and you can do it year round. Freaks people out...

It's also incredibly useful at picking up all the dust on the floor.

[Tossin]

Originally Posted by Entropy

It's also incredibly useful at picking up all the dust on the floor.

and scaring the crap out of people with exploding centrifuge tubes. The 50ml conicals are the best.

[Entropy]

Originally Posted by Tossin

and scaring the crap out of people with exploding centrifuge tubes. The 50ml conicals are the best.

FTR: The small eppendorf tubes hurt like hell if you get hit above the eye.

[Tossin]

Originally Posted by Entropy

FTR: The small eppendorf tubes hurt like hell if you get hit above the eye.

One late night while I was doing crystal prep for the synchrotron I was goofing off and had one fly past my face. I decided that after 20 hours, it was time to go to bed.

[SnowDale]

Originally Posted by Tossin

Get some liquid nitrogen and you can do it year round. Freaks people out...

Liquid nitrogen = fun

I used to work for a physics professor that had a "Fun with Physics" presentation that he would take around to all the local schools from kindergarten to seniors in high school. We used liquid nitrogen a few times.

Best demo: We would blow up some balloons, put them in a cooler and pour liquid nitrogen over them. The air inside would turn into a liquid and the balloons would shrink up. We would announce to the class that we are working on some top secret experiments that would save the world countless hours, and one of our first inventions is balloons that blow themselves up. You reach in the cooler, grab one of the shriveled up balloons, and throw it on the table. The air inside turns to gas again, and the balloon blows up. "Imagine all the time saved getting ready for parties!"

We'd also freeze a carnation, pour a little bit on the tabletop, throw a beaker full at the class, stuff like that.

[Uncle Pervey]

What I wanna know is if you were able to reach in through 40 layers of clothes and coax Mr. Johnson out, if you took a piss at 40-50 below, would it freeze before it hit the ground?
Would you end up with a Pisscicle hanging off of Mr. Johnson? Or would it just freeze solid where it hit the ground and form a piss stalactite, or a pisstalactite?
Just wondering....

[Sleestak]

Lol, a few weeks ago I was showing the QC lab people at work that water would boil in their vacuum chamber then scared the piss out of them as I downed it and acted like it scalded me.