A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean

Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by the_pwner224 on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:06AM (#20080328)

Flash freezing (using liquid nitrogen to freeze something really quickly) is used successfully for smaller objects, such as frozen berries and frozen vegetables that you can buy at the grocery store. The Wikipedia page on flash freezing links to this [0] site with some more discussion. The Wiki page also says that flash freezing still can take a few hours, so there are still ice crystals created, but a lot less/smaller than if you just put it in the freezer.

Overall it seems it's just a matter of waiting for technology to advance to the point where we can very move a 150 pound 2-meter-tall 1-foot-deep object from 98 degrees to 30 degrees, and at that point the science fiction will become reality.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120111233417/http://www.biotec...

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by simcop2387 on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:41AM (#20080661)

The size matters significantly for this. Much larger and it becomes difficult to remove the heat throughout fast enough to do a flash freeze.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by bduerst on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:50AM (#20083026)

This is correct. Flash freezing an entire human body consistently would be incredibly difficult.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by ChrisRR on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:38AM (#20081160)

Even speaking as a brit, your mixture of metric and imperial and metric fascinates me.

I personally would've written 150lb, 6'6 tall, 1ft deep, 37 to 0 degrees

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by OJFord on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:58AM (#20081249)

150lb? That always strikes me as distinctly American, as opposed to 10st 10lb.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by saalweachter on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:47AM (#20082532)

I'm so glad America got away before y'all went stone-crazy.

Redefining the hundredweight, seriously?

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by OJFord on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:32PM (#20089055)

Hey, for a '1,000 pennyer' I'll advocate for your pound-as-largest-unit madness.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by saalweachter on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:09PM (#20089442)

You had options! The London stone for wool was 12.5 lbs, which would give you the same 8 stone to the hundredweight without redefining a hundredweight as 112 lbs.

Or if you wanted to go the other way -- there were plenty of other definitions of the stone in use at the time, after all -- you could have gone with 16 pounds, to maintain parity with the dram and the ounce. Y'all still likely would have screwed up the hundredweight, as 128lb, but you might have at least fixed things by making the ton 16 hundredweight/2048 lb, which would at least have been some lovely binary fractions.

But 14 pounds? That's just madness.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by ChrisRR on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:30AM (#20084219)

Oops yes, I would actually have said 10 stone 10. I just copied the comment text because I was focusing on the 2 meters

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by Zenbit_UX on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:24AM (#20083368)

Tell tale sign of a Canadian.

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