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pat_in_the_hatits very hard to actually burn to death. in most cases, its the smoke that gets you first. it scars the little sacs in your lungs (i forget what they are called) and you eventually suffocate to death.
Anathemai think it would depend on how it was done. if i were put in an oven and the temperature raised by one degree every minute until i was dead, versus putting me in a freezer where the temperature was lowered by one degree every minute until i was dead, i think the freezing would be more bearable. slowly cooking would be a total nightmare. i hate having sunburns enough, i can't imagine full body burns that slowly get worse and worse until you fucking die..
but if it were quick. if you were thrown into a giant pit of boiling oil versus being thrown into some other chemical liquid of equal negative temperature (idk, maybe liquid nitrogen), i think you'd succumb to the oil faster. there'd be less time for pain after your nerve endings were all instantly scalded off. i'm not really sure what would happen if you were immersed in an extremely low temperature liquid, but i imagine it isn't pleasant.
ZimmermanI'd take the nitrogen for sure, actually. At temps that low I'm pretty sure you'd solidify really quickly. Like to the point where if you were dropped, you would shatter.
Anathemai think it would depend on how it was done. if i were put in an oven and the temperature raised by one degree every minute until i was dead, versus putting me in a freezer where the temperature was lowered by one degree every minute until i was dead, i think the freezing would be more bearable. slowly cooking would be a total nightmare. i hate having sunburns enough, i can't imagine full body burns that slowly get worse and worse until you fucking die..
but if it were quick. if you were thrown into a giant pit of boiling oil versus being thrown into some other chemical liquid of equal negative temperature (idk, maybe liquid nitrogen), i think you'd succumb to the oil faster. there'd be less time for pain after your nerve endings were all instantly scalded off. i'm not really sure what would happen if you were immersed in an extremely low temperature liquid, but i imagine it isn't pleasant.
JustGoWithIt"alveoli"
As for scaring the lungs that is partially true. Most thermal damage would occur in the airways and not the alveoli themselves. Like you said, most die of suffocation either through a reaction such as present within asthmatics where the airways close. Or from a deprivation of O2. In many cases the volume of oxygen in such situations can be as low as 10%. The rest is CO2 which our body works to get rid of, so taking in that high of quantity is normally not very healthy. A lack of oxygen and to much CO2 results in other parts of the body to stop functioning (Brain first) followed by others and eventually leading to MOF. Kind of a crappy death.
I'd rather freeze to death on top of a mountain with my skis on my feet.
ZimmermanI'd take the nitrogen for sure, actually. At temps that low I'm pretty sure you'd solidify really quickly. Like to the point where if you were dropped, you would shatter.
Anathemai want that on mythbusters now.
lets see what happens to a corpse when dunked in liquid nitrogen.
fuck it, lets do it with a real person and see how they react..
