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feignedaffections:sighinastorm:paradisemantis:kwanzaalord:castle-of-aaaaauuugghhh:itsfrenchthellama:dazedwinter:braydaaan:kiss-the-g1rl:unshaped:filling a bathtub with the substance, throwing the person you hate the most in the tub and throwing the ice cube in the tub right after …. it would be oversuch evil minds in this placei love this evilness Nah, don’t just throw it in you gotta flick it dramatically over your shoulder without looking as you walk away, preferably with a darkly humorous one-liner.“The cold never bothered me anyway”IT GOT BETTERno it fucking didn’tITT - Tumblr doesn’t understand volume of liquids or the fact that a human body, while mostly liquid, would resist this sort of chemical change effectively meaning that unless you had previously restrained or killed said person this would not be an effective means to harm or kill someone. The reaction from one ice cube, even if it interacted with the whole tub (unlikely), would be much slower because of the volume of liquid that had to react and the body would occupy a fair bit of space itself and not react to the change well. You’d just have an angry person (maybe) breaking out of a thin layer of ice and wondering what the fuck your problem is.I think this is just supercooled water. The idea as I understand it is that your enemy sinks into liquid, but then is challenged to break out of a solid (before they freeze, drown, or are crushed to death). I think it could work, but not for something as small as a bathtub. Better have a polished glass swimming pool filled with distilled water.The bolded is correct. This is a shitty way to kill someone. First, the reaction would be entirely too slow. This would happen so amazingly slow in a swimming poo if at all in a swimming pool. Is the air also going to be cold? If not how are you going to keep the water super cooled? You would also need a much larger piece of ice to nucleate the reaction in a swimming pool. Your enemy, unless they were sedated, would escape easily. I supposed if your enemy had the speed of a banana slug and the brains of a sea anemone and would just stand there as the water cooled around them enough to start dropping their body temperature and then proceed to ignore the surge of hormones that would urge them to GTFO because homeostasis is being violated then this would be a great way to kill them. Boring and slow, but it would kill them. If your enemy is a banana slug then I would ask you what is wrong with you to have such a weak and pathetic enemy?Yeah, I was imagining this happening in winter, and under an enclosure, so nothing blew in. And sustained contact with freezing-cold water does have a sedating, paralyzing (damn near palsying) effect.The size of the starter ice is immaterial. The cooling isn’t coming from the ice; the water is already cold enough. It’s a chain reaction. Once it begins, the water nucleates upon the new ice it forms from itself, in geometric expansion. What does that radiation rate look like in the glass? About an inch per second? Let’s say it’s one inch per one second. So if it’s radiating from a single point, in 6 seconds it will have frozen a half-cubic-foot of water. Ho-hum. In 30 seconds (60 inch sphere), it will have frozen 65 cubic feet of water. Fair obstacle. In one minute, 524 cubic feet. In five and a half minutes (”die, fucker! ::pulls up a seat, opens magazine::), it would create enough “ice” to fill 87,000+ cubic feet–the volume of an Olympic regulation swimming pool. I say “ice” because I don’t think it would freeze solid at first, but into a thick slurry–a quasi-plastic substance which I think would be humanly impossible to swim through without shovel fins. I guess it would only take someone 40 seconds to get out, unimpeded. Now I’ve made these calculations based on a model of completely spherical growth, unbounded, expanding from a single point. This is obviously not what would happen, as pools have rules*, and ice floats. So conservatively, the sphere is halved and the times doubled for the unbounded phase of expansion. But let’s say I fling in the contents of a gas station bag of ice. Hundreds of starter nucleation points. Then what? -- source link
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