X-Message-Number: 1303
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Timothy Freeman)
Subject: Re: Stiff Rat/Lives
Message-ID: <>
References: <>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:03:43 GMT


In article <>  writes:

   I recently saw a program, I think on PBS program, discussing the 
   liquification

   of natural gas, for transport to Korea from Alaska. They had very interesting
      segment in the program, that described experiments in cryogenic experiment.
   Camera's rolling, they dropped a mouse in Liquid natural gas (Poof Instant
   Stiff!) they then pulled him out and dropped him in warm water. Then with no
   apparent disorientation, the animal slid out of their hands and jumped off 
   the table.

I've seen someone put their arm in liquid nitrogen up to the forearm
and stir it around for a few seconds with no ill effects.  He said he
had put his bare arm in past the elbow as he was fishing around for a
dropped tool in a dewar.  Apparently heat flows slowly from liquefied
gasses into warm flesh, probably because the liquid boils before it
touches the flesh, and gasses generally insulate fairly well.  (Don't
try this at home, and don't try it at all if you are wearing metal
rings, a wristwatch, you have a wet hand, you have clothes on your arm
that could get soaked with Liquid Nitrogen, or in general you don't
know what you're doing.  If you do it anyway, don't sue me. :-)

Did you see that the rat was stiff, or are you assuming it was stiff?
Even if you saw it was stiff, body parts get stiff long before they
freeze, so I suspect the rat was never frozen.  
--
Tim Freeman <>    CompuServe ID 71045,2267 checked occasionally.
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

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