On 19/08/2007, at 00:32, S. Berkeley Watkins, Jr. wrote: >> This is a cliche that bothers me. Why do people always get shown >> shattering after they get frozen solid? I really, really doubt that >> it would actually happen. If you drop a chunk of frozen meat on the >> floor, it doesn't shatter, does it? > > Well, if you cool anything fast enough, far enough beyond zero, it's > going to probably be very, very brittle. (Liquid Nitrogen, for > instance, cruises along at around -195 Celsius at the warmest.)
Okay, okay, so I didn't think of the effects of flash-freezing. Yeah, brittle, understood. > But > really, who cares about the strict laws of physics in a world where > the > Earth was once ruled from the Moon and elite bodyguards wear magical > miniskirts? Well, *yes*. But personally, I tend to think it's kind of cool when I meet a world that feels more or less real ... and *still* has elite bodyguards who wear magical miniskirts. :) On that score, "Moonshadow" is stacking up pretty well so far. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angus MacSpon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 65719513 http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~macspon/ --- .-------Anime/Manga Fanfiction Mailing List--------. | Administrators - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unsubscribing - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Put 'unsubscribe' in the subject | `------------ FAQ URL coming soon.... -------------'
