Ah, so that's where all this excess CO2 in the atmosphere comes from, a Mad Scientist operating from the Black Rock Desert! :)
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Beaty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:27 AM Subject: [Vo]:OT: my dark secret > > 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 >
