macmankev:

livfm:

It sounded interesting enough, and it was although I don’t know why freezing water using heat would be helpful because the techniques they described sounded more complex than just buying a giant freezer. Anyway it just annoyed me because it seemed blatantly obvious nobody had read this article, and those who had wouldn’t have liked/reblogged it because it was just a bunch of chemistry with two interesting sentences. What I’m saying is that I want that fruit person again but made of a mandarin and not a banana.

It’s interesting science, but I think you’re right, no one actually read the article. I think many people were even thinking about heat as temperatures above freezing when in fact it’s just supercooled water being heated up. The water itself still has a temperature below the freezing point. The part I actually find more interesting is how the charge effects the way the water freezes.

And I agree, we need more fruit people.

This reminds me of this particular encounter from a few months ago.

Me: “I learnt about high temperature superconductors today! It’s really cool.”

Rolphus: “Wow, how warm? and how do they make them?”

Me: “Well, they can get up to 120 Kelvin! Isn’t that fantastic?”

Rolphus: “Er…”