Mythbsters...
Viral Myth or Amazing Truth.

First off, I am a huge fan of Mythbusters. Now, to business. I was looking around on YouTube and I just happened to find a perfect Mythbusters video. It is where someone makes Ice from Water in a matter of seconds. Here is the video I watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-GQk8Q96PY. I have tried this time and time again, but it does not work. In this video you can see effects take place over time, it was just speeded up, but I was wondering, could this be done? I know that I cannot do it, but maybe you could eliminate some variables and try this out. I also talked to my science teacher about this. He said, "There must be some ways, but I don't know how. That video is 100% fake though, no way will that ever work." That was what I predicted. I have almost defiantly figured out this does not work. Of course you are the Mythbusters and it is your job to test this kind of stuff. As I said, I am almost positive that this way cannot work, but I am asking you, the Mythbusters to find a way to make Ice with house hold materials in a matter of time. I would say the time limit is 10-15 minutes. If you cannot find any way of doing this with house hold materials I would ask you to find any possible way of doing this. It could use anything you can get your hand on. Anyone who is reading this, especially if you are a scientist or anyone who works with chemicals or phenomena daily do you have any thoughts?

Like I said, try to find anyway to make "Instant Ice", if there is such thing.

P.S. I know this will most likely not make it to the show, but are you notified if it does?

Thank You.

If anyone else finds a video of the same nature from any source please post them as well.

I know that this is possible with chemicals, but you cannot use it to drink then... I want to add that the ice must be safe to drink! If not there is almost no purpose in this. If you can use it and it does use chemicals they should be ones that anyone (almost anyone -age-) can get.

Thank You.

Love the Mythbusters!!!

Since this is all about "Magic" Ice I was thinking... If you make this ice a certain way using certain things could it be bullet proof? I think this is very Mythbuster fitting. I think maybe this could work using certain articles when making the ice, because some of them might change the density of the ice in some way. Some of these might not even use water so this is all together possible, probably not, but maybe. You would need to have a control (of course), but I think maybe if you could make a few (to a bunch) of different instant ice mixtures that could be tested to see if any could stop a bullet.

Please post your ideas, and please comment in any way on what I have said.

Thank You.

One last thing...

->>>No Liquid Nitrogen!<<<-

To easy that way.

Thank You.

P.S. Please Comment with ideas and anything else you think might relate to "Magic Ice".

The science behind this is time-lapse photography in a cold room. The salt and melted straw have nothing to do with it.

Did you happen to notice the lighting change in the couple seconds it took for the water to freeze, that is the lighting change over hours from the movement of the sun.

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Originally posted by hawkmage:
The science behind this is time-lapse photography in a cold room. The salt and melted straw have nothing to do with it.

Did you happen to notice the lighting change in the couple seconds it took for the water to freeze, that is the lighting change over hours from the movement of the sun.

Stop bumping your own thread. That's strongly discourage and not appreciated. It also counts as spam and can be a bannable offense.

Missed the editing window.

If you watch the video, you will notice the lighting and shadows in the room change. This is a strong indicator of a time lapse: the freezing process had been 'fast forwarded' from what it originally was. Whatever freezing process is used takes more than five minutes, but it was sped up to fit that time frame. Something else that is a distinct (and more likely) possibility is that the freezing segment is reversed. It's not a video of water freezing, but melting played backwards. That's yet another distinct possibility, and also very likely the correct explanation. This is also supported by the time lapse.

Definitely fake. However, by supercooling a liquid it is possible to get a substance that is liquid but will instantly freeze (far faster than the video) if it is disturbed too much.

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Originally posted by BlackZero:

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Originally posted by hawkmage:
The science behind this is time-lapse photography in a cold room. The salt and melted straw have nothing to do with it.

Did you happen to notice the lighting change in the couple seconds it took for the water to freeze, that is the lighting change over hours from the movement of the sun.

Stop bumping your own thread. That's strongly discourage and not appreciated. It also counts as spam and can be a bannable offense.

Is there a reason that you quoted me when admonishing the OP?

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Originally posted by Nuclear_man:
Definitely fake. However, by supercooling a liquid it is possible to get a substance that is liquid but will instantly freeze (far faster than the video) if it is disturbed too much.

I had this happen to a beer once which I left in the freezer overnight. It was very cold but liquid. As soon as I opened it, it froze up into a slush in a matter of seconds. I've never been able to duplicate the effect so it might have been a bad beer or something. It sure was tastey :-)

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Originally posted by ViralVideoMyths:

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Originally posted by Nuclear_man:
Definitely fake. However, by supercooling a liquid it is possible to get a substance that is liquid but will instantly freeze (far faster than the video) if it is disturbed too much.

I had this happen to a beer once which I left in the freezer overnight. It was very cold but liquid. As soon as I opened it, it froze up into a slush in a matter of seconds. I've never been able to duplicate the effect so it might have been a bad beer or something. It sure was tastey :-)

So is slushy pop lol. Really though, it is extremely difficult for it to work, but apparently they used to sell supercooled coca-cola or something. Where when you opened it it instantly turned to slush (you need to really cool it for it to turn to pure ice). Essentially you need to cool it in such a way that ice crystals don't form, and that isn't easy. There's an opposite effect called "super-heating" that can happen if you microwave a glass of water, where it gets heated beyond it's boiling temp, but the bubbles don't form. So when it's disturbed, it rapidly boils in a fraction of a second. I doubt it would be very pleasant to try to take a drink when that happens.

Anyway, to reliably super-cool something you need a laboratory to set up the conditions right, kudos to you for being able to pull it off even once on accident.

butane is in lighters it is also freezing cold it could be tru BUT it is not good to eat

Very simple act what you dont know is that in the water is sodium acitate is in the water when you push the straw in nothing happens but as soon as you remove it the reaction begins and it becomes instant ice not eatable and is a version of hot ice so dont touch it until its fully cooled thats how the trick is done and its busted on the way that they show you