Mercury Fish

1. Woogie
   June 4th, 2009 at 11:49 am

   Calls to mind an episode of Jonathan Creek. Nice.

2. helicene13
   June 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

   I suppose you mean : -320°F?

3. Miss Cellania
   June 4th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

   Why yes, and that would be only -212 centigrade. Sorry for the confusion.

4. LisaL
   June 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

   And, WTH was the point of doing this?

5. Skipweasel
   June 4th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

   Very neat - but yeah, I did a double-take at the temperature, too.

6. Skipweasel
   June 4th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

   Lisa L - what do you do for fun?

7. LisaL
   June 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

   Well, I certainly don't waste my time cooling mercury in a fish mold for the heck of it.

8. SenorMysterioso
   June 4th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   it doesnt have to be a fish LisaL, could be anything you like

9. Woogie
   June 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

   LisaL: The same reason people climb Everest and things like that.

   Because they're idiots with nothing better to do.

10. Skipweasel
    June 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    Thinking back, perhaps a mould of a tuna would be more appropriate.

11. seefish3
    June 4th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Great piece of nerd video! I love the dorky voice-over guy, too. Sounds like one of those "workplace safety" films that OSHA makes you watch.

12. judebach
    June 4th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    that was one of many interesting articles from Popular Science Magazine!

13. Tony
    June 4th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    The temperature in the blurb should really be corrected. It makes my head hurt seeing -320 degrees.

    When I was a younger man I used to play with mercury from broken thermometers with my bare hands. Probably explains my neurotic personality.

14. LisaL
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    Well I wouldn't call them idiots o_O I just don't see a point in doing it. *shrugs* Whatever floats their boat.

15. Miss Cellania
    June 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    I edited it. Tony, I hope -212 makes your head hurt less.

16. Wes
    June 5th, 2009 at 3:35 am

    LisaL, there's this thing called fun. You may remember it from your youth.

17. BikerRay
    June 5th, 2009 at 4:32 am

    Cooling to that temperature is a bit extreme - mercury solidifies at -40 (C or F, take your pick).

18. ted
    June 5th, 2009 at 7:19 am

    Yes, but it doesn't take the form of a fish until at least -100.

    They should have tried for a dolphin.

19. Kelly
    June 5th, 2009 at 7:52 am

    I feel an odd compulsion to beat it with a bamboo pole.

20. kukeit
    June 5th, 2009 at 9:27 am

    I'm really worried now...my mom broke a thermometer a couple of months ago and I kept the mercury in a little plastic cup in my room and now I see it's disappeared..spilled on the floor somewhere...I knew it was poisonous but I didn't know it was so poisonous that you shouldn't even breathe around it! what do I do???

21. kukeit
    June 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    oh now I found the mercury it's on the window sill...I'm going to chuck it out right now!

22. OddNumber
    June 5th, 2009 at 9:36 am

    kukeit - I'm really hoping that either you're joking or that I don't live next door to you.

    Kelly - HILARIOUS!

23. Simon Says
    June 5th, 2009 at 10:33 am

    That fish isn't gonna last long... maybe just enough for the photo to be taken.

    Liquid nitrogen is pretty expensive and vaporizes really fast due to the much higher ambient temperature.

24. Kalel
    June 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Why? Just for the halibut.

25. Andrew Dalke
    June 5th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Liquid nitrogen isn't expensive. It's roughly $1-2/gallon.

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