{"id":275,"date":"2010-04-08T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-06-08T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:40:29","slug":"ask-the-experts-more-watermelon-destruction-and-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/ask-the-experts-more-watermelon-destruction-and-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK THE EXPERTS: MORE WATERMELON DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ALEX ASKS: A while ago, I asked what would happen if you microwaved a watermelon and you said not to do it. Fair enough, but what would happen if you put a watermelon in liquid nitrogen and then dropped it off of a tall building?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex, Alex, Alex\u2026 why all the animosity toward watermelons? First, you\u2019re putting them in the microwave and next you\u2019re deep freezing them and dropping them from great heights. You\u2019re probably a big Gallagher fan, aren\u2019t you? (Or too young to know who Gallagher is.) I don\u2019t understand why you can\u2019t just hack the watermelon to bits and eat it, but your question is an interesting one, so I\u2019ll make an attempt to answer it. But first, a warning:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WARNING: Liquid nitrogen is a dangerously cold substance. Liquid nitrogen is not a toy. Do not handle liquid nitrogen without the supervision of a trained professional.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, now that that\u2019s out of the way, let\u2019s get back to your question. Liquid nitrogen is, of course, very cold. Somewhere in the neighborhood of minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit. Which means anything placed in liquid nitrogen, including watermelon, will be frozen solid in matter of seconds. This includes fingers and hands, which explains the warning above.<\/p>\n<p>So the answer to what would happen if you placed a watermelon in liquid nitrogen and dropped it off of a tall building is simple. The watermelon would freeze as solid as an ice cube and break into a thousand pieces when dropped from even a moderate height of about 30 feet. And then you\u2019d have a big mess to clean up and no watermelon to eat for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t find a video of a watermelon being frozen and dropped from a building, but I did find a video of pennies being chilled in liquid nitrogen and shattered with a hammer. 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