Bruce L. Bergman wrote:



Now if you have some Liquid Nitrogen in your back pocket (in a
stainless Thermos, naturally...) you might get a lock cold enough to
shatter, but that stuff is hard for the average criminal to get.

-- Bruce --

You just reminded me that circa 1960 I watched with disbelief as the
then fiftyish Dr. D.H. Tomboulian, of the Department of Physics at
Cornell University, tossed a small paper cup full of LN down his throat
like it was Jack Daniel's, with no apparent pain or ill effects.

He did belch up a storm for the next few minutes though. He told us the
moisture in his alimentary canal had something to do with keeping the
tissues from being damaged during the time it took for the LN to boil off.

I never had the nerve to do it myself.

Anybody here seen, or maybe even tried, that stunt?

Jeff
--
Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."