Jeff Wisnia wrote:

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?

He probably doesn't swallow.

Look he

http://www.alcaudon.com/humor/humor_nitrogen.html

I wouldn't try that!

BTW, if any one in Seattle wants to try an experiment w/ LN, let
me know--I have access to it. We could see if a lock will actually
shatter. Personally, I doubt one could break say a bicycle U-lock
like this. Mythbusters any one?

One day I was fooling around in lab. I made a finger out of aluminum
foil and poured some LN into it. LOX condensed out of the air and
dribbled down the outside of the finger. I collected some in a tube
and dropped a match in... POOF!

Jeff Dantzler