Bill B., the CO2 Mad Scientist at Burning Man '07 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaci/1373813742/
...where we CHALLENGE NATURE HERSELF by endeavouring to convince passersby to allow us to place fuming chunks of dry ice... IN THEIR COFFEE, A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAAAAA! http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaci/1373814478/ Actually it quickly turns your coffee into cold, coffee-flavored club soda. Appropriately monstrous! Looks cool though. I also convinced lots of people to handle dry ice with their bare hands. One doesn't receive frostbites unless one pushes dry ice against skin for about one full second. So just keep moving it around. Or, when frightening your audience by chewing up dry ice while breathing out a plume of white fog, it's a very good idea to spit out all the particles within about two seconds. It has been found that large chunks of dry ice will survive unchanged for several days in sunlit desert environment if enclosed in many alternate layers of inch-thick styrofoam and aluminized mylar sheets. Ooo! Ooo! I also accidentally invented a new kind of food! If you drop a large pellet of dry ice into beer, it's like "Mentos" and launches a fountain of foam. If this foam accidentally pours into a styrofoam container of pellet-type dry ice, the foam freezes almost instantly. The result is white, low-density material shaped like fish vertebrae, and resembling popcorn. It's edible. And if a good microbrew was used, it tastes great! However, it seems to strongly amplify the smell of the original beer, so any "cryo-popcorn" made from slightly skunky beer will taste horrible. Henry Weinhart's "Blonde Ale" worked well. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
