This thing doesn’t exist, right? Like every other “person invents amazing futuristic gizmo that looks cool in photoshops!”
Jesus I hope the liquid nitrogen part is a mistake in the article.
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This looks expensive. A CPAP mask from Amazon and a trip to the welding supply store and I am good to go.
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I like this a bunch but I want my pod, after my comfortable N2 asphixiation, to launch me into orbit around the Moon or Mars
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Yeah, I just heard about the fat man’s diet this morning. Love it!
Dammit you beat me to it!
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The ultimate sensory deprivation tank.
Just don’t mistake it for a tanning bed.
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Einmal ist keinmal!
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Way too much work. Especially if you’re sick. And - who has the space to store it ahead of time?
I’ll just buy a shotgun. It’s not like I’ll be cleaning it up.
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Overheard in 2018: “Oh, nothing much. Just 3D-printing my self-assembly suicide casket. You?”
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A Get-to-God Pod.
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Does it come with a mansion of glory, or is that extra?
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Straight-to-hell-shell.
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Sigh
When will you guys realize, being dead forever is its own reward?
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Your Purgatory Lorry.
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Bardo Cargo.
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Her-Hades-Benz
(For the ladies.)
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Yes, but would he pass the questionnaire?
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Jared can fill it out for him.
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I can only assume that somewhere in the write-up someone confused “fill with liquid nitrogen” and “add liquid nitrogen to evaporator”.
If memory serves, LN2 has an expansion ratio of roughly 1:700 when it evaporates. By rough eyeballing, a coffin-pod is probably about one cubic meter(just squished a bit, humans being more rectangular than cubic). That would be a lot of liquid nitrogen; but just boiling off enough to drive down the internal oxygen concentration would be quite practical: you will lose some nitrogen as well if you go with the basic “loose deals, modest internal overpressure” approach; but 2 liters of liquid nitrogen would give you 1.4 cubic meters of gaseous nitrogen; likely plenty to displace most of the oxygen in the pod.
Given that surviving some minutes of serious oxygen deprivation is often a lousy plan, you would probably want to err on the side of caution and ensure that the nitrogen supply comfortably outlasts you; but even a pretty conservative margin would put you under 10 liters; likely a fair bit less.
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