Comments on: Morning Cup of Links: All About Snakes http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16528 Feel Smart Again Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:59:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: n2y2 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16528/comment-page-1#comment-83805 n2y2 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:45:22 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16528#comment-83805 respirocytes are no more than a huge chunk of pie-in-the-sky at the present. The very most optimistic estimations project them as *possibly* being ready by 2030 and even they throw in a bunch of qualifying statements. Right now they are only slightly more plausible than the 100's of patents filed for perpetual motion machines. respirocytes are no more than a huge chunk of pie-in-the-sky at the present. The very most optimistic estimations project them as *possibly* being ready by 2030 and even they throw in a bunch of qualifying statements.

Right now they are only slightly more plausible than the 100’s of patents filed for perpetual motion machines.

]]> By: kp http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16528/comment-page-1#comment-83757 kp Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:39:23 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16528#comment-83757 When I was in college, a few of us chem majors would make nitrogen triiodide all the time. It is not explosive when wet, but it is so unstable when dry that it was very unpredictable... someone walking down the hall, a door closing several rooms over, etc, could make it explode. For fun, we would take an eye-dropper and put little drops of the stuff all around the freshman lecture hall. As it dried, they would randomly explode (just small little "snaps"). When I was in college, a few of us chem majors would make nitrogen triiodide all the time. It is not explosive when wet, but it is so unstable when dry that it was very unpredictable… someone walking down the hall, a door closing several rooms over, etc, could make it explode.

For fun, we would take an eye-dropper and put little drops of the stuff all around the freshman lecture hall. As it dried, they would randomly explode (just small little “snaps”).

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