Jeff Dantzler wrote:

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

Urk!

After reading that I tend to believe your "doesn't swallow" theory.

Probably the belching was just a "special effect" added to make us
believe he swallowed the LN.

But my memory reminds me that he sure left us with the impression that
the LN went "down the hatch".

Tomboulian was a consultant on the project we were working on (A rocket
lofted diffraction grating spectrometer IIRC.) and a mentor to several
of us. Thinking about it now, if his swallowing was just simulated, then
he was taking quite a risk that one of us young guys would try it on our
own with results comparable to those of that poor sod in the link you
provided above. We had no reason to think chicanery was involved.

I wouldn't try that!

I didn't!

Jeff

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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."