Freezing

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1. Wow Dr Katie is a boundless font of icy knowledge.
   Well done her.
   Kind of hoping she got back to the lab after this an immediately chucked some dry ice in the liquid nitrogen just to satisfy her curiosity.

   Awesomely unexpected twist on musical interlude this week.
   Certainly going to be listening to that a couple of times so I can mess with the next person I catch singing let it go at work.

   Lastly my favourite pop culture freezing the terminator 2 T1000 liquid nitrogen bath and awesome resulting shattering effect man that was an epic special effect

   Oh and more recently the movie snow piercer where those who oppose the train’s enforcers are subjected to an unlikely form of corporal punishment their limbs are pushed outside of the train carriage in which they live and into the global ice age raging outside and a little clock in run. They are pulled back in once frozen sufficiently solid and the limb is promptly shattered with a sledge hammer.

   1. +1 for that Snowpiercer reference – that was a pretty grim scene.

2. Thank you soooo much for those alternate lyrics to the Frozen song. My girls (5 and 8) are obsessed with that film and constantly sing the song, so now I can take solace in some more appealing (and frankly more sensible) lyrics. Bravo! If I knew how to make that little animated gif of the guy slow-clapping appear, I’d add it here.

   1. Actually, Joe, any chance you could post the lyrics somewhere? A few were a little hard to make out, but they certainly made my drive to work easier. 🙂

3. fascinating episode! I love your more science-y ones.
   Dr. Katie Marshall was an excellent choice in guest, I definitely would love to hear more form her.
   in pop culture: this Mitchell and Webb sketch answers what happens when the cryogenics companies go bankrupt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Lzr3cwaPs

4. Reasonably sure these are the lyrics
   Just a little unsure of that bit before neutron blasts
   Like I said listened to that a couple of times : )

   The guys speak low on the show today
   A bronze bull is getting hot
   A cry of pain escapes its mouth and puts my stomach into knots
   Evil duos creeping in the corner of my mind
   Just can’t deal with it, I know their right behind

   And now I’m blind I just can’t see,
   What is this thing that’s crawling inside me?
   I learn and burn cause now I know
   This fucking show!

   Make it gross,
   Make it gross
   Please tell me things I’ll abhor.
   Make it gross,
   Make it gross
   Till I pass out on the floor
   I don’t care what you’re going to say,
   Tell me awful things
   Make my own troubles seem far away

   It’s funny how child labour makes traffic seem not bad
   And the stuff that used to bug me is just a little sad
   I want to see what I can take
   To test my limits till they break
   True bugs, tumours self-surgery!
   Ted Bundy!

   Make it gross,
   make it gross
   I can deal with infanticide!
   Make it gross,
   make it gross
   You’ll never see me cry!

   I don’t care what your going to say
   Tell me awful things

   A teratoma is a lump of nasty gore
   This maggot cheese just wants to go and crawl right out the door
   (A botfly)? pierces me just like a neutron blast
   I am a soda jerk
   This stuff is such a gas!

   Make it gross
   Make it gross
   Ocular myositis be damned
   Make it gross
   Make it gross
   And after I’ll still stand!

   I don’t care what your going to say!
   Fecal emesis
   Makes my own troubles seem far away.

   1. Big up yourself*, Him Again! Thanks very much. 🙂

      Say, Joe, will that song make Toren’s “Comments Not Allowed” album, perhaps as a hidden track or something? (Speaking of which, Toren, any news?) 😉

      * Surely I’m not the only one who remembers Ali G, innit?

      1. I no longer have a good recording space since I moved, and more importantly I am having computer difficulties which is making recording multi-track music impossible (at least in Audacity, and I’ll need to take the time to learn a new program) – BUT I might be teaming up with someone who can handle the technical aspects. I feel bad about taking so long to do this, I probably shouldn’t have made it a perk in the fundraiser before it was available. But it will get done at some point. Live and learn! Thanks for the reminder, Derek.

         1. No wuckas. 🙂 I’ll wait patiently, fear not. I know it’ll be worth it.

   2. Very close! I’ve created a page with a high-quality download link, lyrics, and even links in the lyrics to the appropriate episodes. The version in this has been given a final once-over edit to clean up a few spots.

      Make It Gross – Lyrics & Download

      1. Thanks very much, Joe.

      2. Thanks joe

5. Excellent episode again!! Wish you would have included ice-nine from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cats Cradle. Looking forward to the next episode!!

6. No love for Captain America and the Winter Soldier, my favourite frozen & revived buddies?

7. Fascinating and mind-blowing article on the physics of freezing below Absolute Zero (I think): http://theconversation.com/the-journey-to-the-other-side-of-absolute-zero-31746

   Relevant in a sciency type of way.

8. The Judge Dredd comic has made use of cryogenics too – naturally, there are cryogenics-related crime. Such as thawing out a patient just enough to pump them for blackmail info, then putting them back under. But don’t worry if Dredd catches you at it, and you get shot in the head – Justice Dept. will just stick you into THEIR cryovaults, until medical science can patch your brain up, and they’ll thaw you out to serve your sentence 🙂

9. dat frozen music ! nice one guys.

10. Not exactly cryogenics, but a common form of death sentence in oldie-time Russia (maybe still today) was to strip a person naked, tether them to a post and throw a bucket of water on them. Oh, yeah, this only happened in winter when the temperature was below -20C. The victims would freeze to death. Another fun way to die horribly!

    By the way, Dr. Katie was awesome. Once again, kudos to your guest expert finding skills! Kevin got her once, though. She was trying to speak, but his joke was just soooo bad she had to pause! Good job Kevin!

11. Yes guys, it was very cold (sometimes as low as -50 C) flying unpressurised airplanes in WWII. Why do you think bomber jackets were thick and fur-lined?

12. You covered the freezing experiments conducted by the Nazi’s in WWII, but no mention of Japanese Unit 731. Come to think of it, that probably warrants attention in other episodes that you do as well – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

    In pop culture, you could watch the 1988 shockumentary ‘Men Behind the Sun’ which has some gut-wrenching/eye-bleaching scenes of victims of the unit having their arms frozen and then stripped to the bone or smashed. Or perhaps better not to watch it. Humanity, ffs ._.

    1. Sounds delightful, I will check it out for a future “War Atrocities” episode. Yuck!

    2. We touched on some of what Unit 731 was up to in the LICE episode: https://causticsodapodcast.com//2014/02/09/lice/

       1. Thanks! Unit 731 showed up in that lice episode at 1:18:40 if anyone’s interested.

13. Follow up from October 27, 2015:

    Woman freezes to death in cryotherapy chamber she operated solo after her spa closed for the night.

    http://kdvr.com/2015/10/27/woman-freezes-to-death-in-cryotherapy-chamber/

14. Another follow up: Buzzfeed tries cryotherapy (just so you can see how the machines work).
    
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