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[FuSoYa]

SOLIDIFIED HELIUM! These are actual pics taken near -270 degrees C. That is fucking cold, but look how pretty this stuff is! I want to eat it.

 

[screwdriverqueen]

they sort of do look like cousins of the everlasting gobstoppers in the willy wonka movie.

 

[FrostGiant]

If you ate it I wonder how long you could talk in that high voice.

 

[FuSoYa]

my favorite is the last one. it reminds me of math. but in a good way

 

[FrostGiant]

How the hell does that remind you of math?

 

[FrostGiant]

How the hell does that remind you of math?


Aside:
Dude, Andromeda, "II=I". Cool shit. I'm really getting into this cd. I think I might like it better than their first one.

 

[FrostGiant]

Hey, what the hell. It said I couldn't post that. But sure enough, there it is.

 

[Russell]

Technically speaking the last one is taken at -272.9 degrees Hence 0.1 degrees above absolute zero !

 

[FrostGiant]

I've heard absolute zero will never be reach based on the fact that every time they approach it, they also reduce the value of absolute zero. But damn that's cold!

 

[Demonspell]

The new Andromeda is incredible...

 

[Russell]

I've heard absolute zero will never be reach based on the fact that every time they approach it, they also reduce the value of absolute zero. But damn that's cold!

No, that's not true. Absolute zero is fixed (it's at the point where it is so cold the atoms in a substance don't vibrate ), but it's impossible to get to it, because if you think about it, how do you make anything that cold? They've got something like a millionth of a degree of it, by (I can't remember exactly how) alligning and ordering all of the molecules in the substance which somehow takes all the energy out. But that's as near as you can get

 

[Static]

Wooooooooooooooo.

 

[xfer]

I wonder if it is possible for anything to *taste* that? Can anything organic withstand being burned by absolute zero?

 

[minxnim]

omg this post is like a chemists dream come true. i love this post to pieces.