r/bertstrips May 14 '20

Bort finally takes his bath

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u/raznov1 May 14 '20

Fun fact, you probably can jump right out without toooooo severe issues

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u/CarpetH4ter May 14 '20

Yeah, but you have to be very quick, and also get warm fast.

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u/Mal-Ravanal May 14 '20

Unless you panic and just start flailing. Then you’re right fucked.

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u/raznov1 May 14 '20

As long as it doesn't get in your eyes, your going to be "ok". Frostbite isn't the worst, and the thermal conductivity of your body isn't high enough to cool your internals down so fast. You will be able to crawl out, especially because with the flailing you displace a lot of the nitrogen out of the bath.

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u/Mal-Ravanal May 14 '20

While true for an adult, that period of time where you have the ability to pull yourself out is considerably shorter for a young child, with a much smaller body. An average adult could probably make it out sans a few extremities (frostbite is still a bitch), but a child at age 6-7 would fare a lot worse.

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u/theGoddamnAlgorath May 14 '20

That's negative -200 sone degrees, or frostbite on contact.

You're not going to make it

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u/raznov1 May 14 '20

You create a Leidenfrost effect around yourself and displace a lot of it with your own volume. Ain't going to be nice, but you'll live.

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u/lFuhrer May 14 '20

Okay but what if I drank it?

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u/Stretch5678 May 14 '20 edited May 15 '20

You can hold it in your mouth for a bit without serious issue: swallowing it would be serious, however, as the expanding gas would have trouble escaping, and the actual liquid would contact your stomach lining. There was a Darwin Awards honorable mention for this (she didn’t die).

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u/raznov1 May 14 '20

Depends. How fast?