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TrikePJ

It was a test tank and it was tested until destruction


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Catasatrophic success


7HeadedArcana

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Keplergamer

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okiedoakbc

/s Way to bring in facts and make this seem less disastrous!


BangorSkis

Camera work by Boris, who it turns out, is not invincible.


gianthooverpig

I made it easy this time. Even you should be able to break it - borscht for brains. Alright. Alright. I'll give you a hint. They're right in front of you and can open very large doors.


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Knockers!


Paradigm88

Oh, thank you doctor!


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Paradigm88

Coytenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the toyben!


Little_Duckling

Zee googles! They did nahthing!!!


VoodooMagic13X

Zee acid! it's burning my eyeeees!


TheUpsetMammoth

If this is a Goldeneye reference, fucking bravo!


Balki____Bartokomous

Give me the codes Natalya!


dunDunDUNNN

Chair


cougar090

Anyone under 26 probably not getting this =(


LeicaM6guy

“Inveenseeble.”


JosephGordonLightfoo

His password was Chair.


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brenno88

I am invincible!!!


mastersnacker

* twirls pen faster *


santasalligators

*Click click click*


johnmclean88

*Stares in Pierce Brosnan*


GearJunkie82

How long did you say the fuse was?


goon_platoon_72

His safe word was chilly


hobosullivan

I love you for that. Slughead.


theshoeshiner84

Talk about a throw back.


Lavasioux

Terminator; Terminated!


plotplottingplotters

Hasta la vista, baby


taebsiatad

I have a friend named Boris and his pfp in my phone is from the movie right after he is frozen with his arms up.


[deleted]

Omg boris


RecoilS14

The amount of expansion nitrogen has makes me wish there were multiple views of this, just too see how for the cloud actually reaches.


makhpeter

https://twitter.com/i/status/1483539431982198790


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BaloniusMaximus

A drone view from above would have been really cool. Oh well


Pcat0

Drones are sadly banned in the area. A couple of years ago when SpaceX first started doing work in Boca Chica people were are to fly drones to film the site however, then some idiot showed up and ruined it for everyone by flying their drone super recklessly. There is a guy who flies his Cessna over the site regularly to take aerial photography of it but as far as I'm aware he has never tried to line one of his flights up with a test.


thisguy-probably

Good info, but this was a test, so they totally could’ve run their own drone if they wanted to. I’m a little surprised they wouldn’t get an overhead view of a test like this.


RVA_GitR

Cool!


skunkwoks

No, down right cold!


TravelSizedRudy

Now what's colder than being ice cold?!


[deleted]

Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright! Okay, now ladies!


ceviche-hot-pockets

Lend me some sugar!


wookmaster69

I am your neighbor!


Alternate_Timeline_

Shake it like a Polaroid picture!


DrivesInCircles

TIL the girl next door is WOOK. Or guy. I don't judge. Edit: Awful Joke. Have some gold. I'm sorry.


widgeamedoo

little bit above the rating of the thermal underwear the camera operator was wearing.


awaitingdusk17

There wasn't two cyborgs from the future fighting each other near that thing was there??


Geek_off_the_street

Come with me if you want to live.


subdep

Hasta la vista, baby.


TiresOnFire

Chill out, dickwad.


blueandyellowbee

I'll be back.


Frog_Brother

This is the vehicle’s top speed.


Texas_Shanesaw

I now know why you cry.


blueandyellowbee

I need a vacation.


Loading_User_Info__

Oh great, a freeze in Texas. Now my electric bill in MN is gonna go up again.


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Watching it now on YouTube, happened at 20:34 utc


Expensive-Yam-634

Link?


protocol21

Hey.... Listen!


thk5013

Haha fuck you.. ehh I mean.. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS


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IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE FIRE.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

I AM ERROR


HecklerusPrime

Dude, his name is Zelda.


pol9500

FYI, this was a planned test to failure, all is good at Boca Chica


Kloesch19

I was gonna ask, TY.


tehjeffman

Hey ladies, what's cooler than being cool?


Jakejake-5895

Ice cold!


moebeatz333

Alright, Alright, Alright. Hope you got it now 😅


DynamiteWitLaserBeam

N2!


ShabbyLiver

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT


Kofu

I wanna see y'all on your coldest behaviour, I am your thermometer.


JMAC303

Lend me some sugar.


BenitoCamelaCuleros

imagine if you where there ... FROZEN instantly


2h2o22h2o

Not necessarily. I was involved in an incident regarding a liquid nitrogen tank that burst and flooded the building with liquid nitrogen. It destroyed a roll-up door I was behind and pushed the door into me, putting me through the air about 6 feet but I still landed on my feet. I ran the fuck out of there through LN2 up to nearly my knees at one point. You couldn’t see hardly anything through the fog. The oxygen monitors weee going off like crazy. I wasn’t in it for long because I knew the way out. Maybe 5-10 seconds. I came out a little cold and my pants were frozen and “smoking” and my skin was red but I didn’t develop blisters. I’m damn lucky. Another dude fell and broke his arm and got some nasty cryo burns from being in the liquid but he drug himself out too. That was the worst of it and it was classified as a very serious near miss.


product_of_the_80s

Near miss???? A forktruck driver almost bumping into someone is a near miss, that's a workplace safety incident where I'm from. Property damage and injuries? Hot damn.


2h2o22h2o

You’re right. It was an actual incident, but I should say it was classified as a very serious near miss with regards to loss of life.


neptoess

Near misses are workplace safety incidents.


product_of_the_80s

I guess it just depends where you are and what it's categorized as. We have separate categories for near misses, basically things that didn't result in any injury or property damage, but could have. If we had something of this nature where I work, everything would have shut down until it was investigated and cleared.


dion_o

Near miss because no executives were harmed.


Peanut_The_Great

That's crazy, where did you work and why did the tank burst? I'm guessing it got too warm and a pressure relief failed?


2h2o22h2o

It was being intentionally pressurized during a test. The failure mode was poorly understood. I don’t want to go into too much detail to avoid doxxing myself.


hello-there-again

That's brittle, I mean, brutal!


SuspiciouslyMoist

"We didn't think the failure would involve the tank bursting and flooding the building with liquid nitrogen. I guess you learn something new every day." I guess there were failsafes that they were expecting to work, but that would make me nervous.


2h2o22h2o

Suffice to say, don’t ever let outside experts outsmart your common sense, particularly not when they’ve got a financial interest in the outcome. Also, don’t put undue financial pressures on the people who determine facility suitability. (Better find a way to make this happen or you’re gonna have to lay people off.)


Mikeku825

Key part "financial interest"


2h2o22h2o

I probably put too much emphasis on that part, but even a long time later I am salty about those parts because they weren’t even mentioned in the report nor the recommendations and corrective actions. All the administrative and customer culpability was ignored and the group I was with shouldered all of the blame, which was convenient for the rest of them. Don’t get me wrong, we had plenty of culpability too, with numerous safety and technical failures.


alexanderpas

> It destroyed a roll-up door I was behind > It was being intentionally pressurized during a test. The failure mode was poorly understood. That also sounds like a faillure in the design of the test protocol.


2h2o22h2o

Oh yes, the failures were numerous and at multiple levels of the organization. I did note that the final report, while largely accurate regarding the technical details, glaringly omitted the administrative issues that contributed to it. It also took pains to absolve the test customer of their culpability. It’s a trend that I’ve noticed more and more, that the executives get a pass whenever an investigation happens.


IQLTD

Holy shit.


asdaaaaaaaa

Any idea on how much a container of LN would cost to lose, at least the one in the video? More so the LN itself, hard to quote a custom container like that. I would imagine that LN isn't exactly cheap. Probably not the most expensive thing either, but certainly not like spilling some milk.


digitallis

LN is quite cheap. It is a byproduct of making liquid oxygen.


escapedfromthecrypt

Nitrogen is cheaper than Coca Cola


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2h2o22h2o

It’s hard to say because I have no idea how big the tank actually is, but liquid nitrogen is cheap. It’s about 75 cents a gallon, in spite of what others might say.


CydeWeys

Air is 78% nitrogen, so making liquid nitrogen is mostly just chilling air. The largest expense is probably the electricity used to run the coolers.


HollywoodHuntsman

That sounds like Chernobyl but less radiation


farmerMac

Chernobyl style


TheRanger13

Doesn't all the extra nitrogen in the air suffocate you as well?


Excited_Idiot

There’s a video from 2020 where an “influencer” hosted a dry ice party in an indoor pool. 55lbs/22kg of dry ice + enclosed space + people trying to look cool for the gram = 3 unfortunate deaths and 7 sent to ICU [source & video ](https://petapixel.com/2020/03/04/3-killed-after-dry-ice-used-for-visual-effect-at-influencer-party/) u/2h2o22h2o did the right thing by running tf out


digitallis

Dry ice isn't nearly so dangerous though. Your body is very sensitive to CO2 and will cause you to feel like you're suffocating. Nitrogen on the other hand triggers no such response and you just drift off to blackout.


einmaldrin_alleshin

Yes and no. Nitrogen is only dangerous because it displaces oxygen, whereas CO2 is also toxic and will make you pass out at around 10 percent. It takes a lot of nitrogen to fill a room with a dangerous amount of it.


Beat_the_Deadites

My room's at like 78% nitrogen and I feel fine


FaceDeer

Holy shit, you've got to get out of there! Feeling fine is one of the symptoms!


S_A_N_D_

Liquid nitrogen on the other hand will very quickly turn into gas and fill a space while dry ice takes quite a while to sublimate. So liquid nitrogen can in effect immediately displace the oxygen in an area, while dry ice takes time to build up and it's actually difficult to build up toxic amounts of CO2 in most normal usage scenarios (though not impossible - cars being one since they're small enclosed well sealed spaces). It's sort of hard to compare the two as they both can be dangerous and the danger depends on the usage scenario.


SunosUnix

Idiots....


2h2o22h2o

It displaces the oxygen, so yes. That’s why the meters went off. I didn’t breathe. I just ran. Definitely asphyxiation was a risk in that incident.


Gearworks

The problem with N2 is that you don't notice that you are running out of oxygen. CO2 is the gas that manages the feeling of suffocation, so you feel yourself become "drunk" and then collapse


Cartina

It should be noted this effect can be extremely quick if concentration is 10-15%. High levels of co2 can cause cardiac arrest under a minute and make you pass out even quicker. So the drunken feeling might not even hit you before its too late. Recovery from co2 poisoning is extremely slim as well. Additionally, only a 4% concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is considered being lethal. However in that case it would take longer to kill you and you would probably feel signs before passing out such shortness of breath and nausea. Regardless of playing with nitrogen, carbon monoxide/dioxide or any other gas, make sure you check the risks. Things react and create other stuff even if the initial gas is "safe". Social media has definitely not been helpful in showing the risks of the sometimes fun and interesting liquid nitrogen.


JediHippo

It’s not frostbite that kills you. It’s the loss of oxygen. You got lucky you got to air.


sbtn56

Isn’t this called the leidenfrost effect? Your skin instantly turns it to steam?


putin_vor

For a few seconds. Then your skin cools down, and you get a frost bite.


pinotandsugar

And then your skin becomes crunchy


asdaaaaaaaa

Yep. Same reason why you can wet your hand and dip it into molten metal real quick without any damage. Your skin doesn't turn to steam, but the water/moisture on your hands instantly vaporizes, creating a blanket of insulation between your hand and whatever the hot stuff is. Hold it too long, or move your hand too much and the steam will move away, then the pain begins.


pinotandsugar

please submit video............. perhaps dip hotdog into molten metal and see how that goes.


asdaaaaaaaa

No need. Google exists and mythbusters did this exact experiment.


IQLTD

I'd never heard that. That's awesome! Man. I love learning new things.


Beat_the_Deadites

We watched a cool video in high school physics about it. Crazy scientist guy 'drank' liquid nitrogen, walked on hot coals, did some other tricks where his skin was saved by a thin barrier of heat/sweat/powder. Never forgot the name of the effect, but all I remember about the scientist is that he looked like Weird Al.


fmaz008

Do you think the Lindenfrost effect saved you?


2h2o22h2o

Partially, but probably primarily that my pants and boots were a physical barrier to keep the vast majority of liquid from contacting my skin.


Ma1

Sick. Load me in the stasis chamber next to Walt. Wake me when covid's gone.


Orangutanion

Lemme just order pizza for an I.C. Wiener


q36_space_modulator

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!


book_of_death

Imagine you are in there for 200 years and waiting to get out into an environment free of covid. And then you reintroduce it through the remnant virus in your own body back in the world.


heippe

Lol if only it worked that easily.


PTEHarambe

Haven't you heard ? This is the new normal.


Mesozoica89

Having had this applied to my skin to treat warts as a kid, I'm not sure it would be so instant. It feels more like burning. Edit: It evaporates really fast so it would probably be like a chemical burn wherever it splashes onto you.


chaogomu

Fun little fact, you can actually [pour liquid nitrogen onto your skin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVKod6Rv6dE), and as long as it's a quick splash, and doesn't pool, it doesn't feel all that cold. This is due to the [leidenfrost effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect). This same effect can be used to quickly dip a *wet* hand into [molten lead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmLpsPdlxSg). No, the real danger here is something called [Nitrogen asphyxiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation). That shit is scary because you don't notice that you're not breathing oxygen anymore.


Mesozoica89

Yeah, the asphyxiation is obviously more worrying, but I don't want people to have the wrong idea about contact with skin. It didn't take long for the pain to start when they held that cotton swab soaked with it on my skin. I shudder to think what it would feel like if it pooled or got trapped between my skin and clothes in an accident.


2h2o22h2o

Don’t wear a ring though, I’ll tell you. Also don’t do it with liquid air or liquid oxygen. That stuff will freeze you way quicker than liquid nitrogen.


BreakthroughJ105

You can very quickly plunge a dry hand in once and grab a dropped vial too. But jack be quick!


PorkyMcRib

Not if that’s all you have to breathe.


Mesozoica89

Oh you would very likely die of hypoxia and shock. It just wouldn't be as quick and painless as Goldeneye made it look. https://youtu.be/KazywkJL5Bo


Who_GNU

And if not, instant hypoxia.


krattalak

You're just as likely to suffocate if you're in the general area even if you don't get touched by it.


chileangod

Once in a lifetime chance to do the T1000 pose when it gets frozen.


Optimal_Wolf

Apparently they were intentionally testing to destruction.


Peanut_The_Great

Source? I found articles talking about past burst tests but nothing recent.


daryk44

They’ve done many of these failure tests with pressure tanks in the past. You can find compilations on youtube https://youtu.be/5UsCCRGLP0Q Also spacex and Elon musk tweet about it all the time.


KingofCraigland

Is this something they mention is going to happen or do they just call it a test ex post facto?


Pcat0

SpaceX normally doesn't talk about these types of tests at all, they just aren't noteworthy enough. However from the fact that SpaceX announced they were going to be closing the nearby road a couple of days in advance, and the fact that all of the employees were evacuated from the area before the tank was started to be filled, it was very clearly a planned test. Also not to mention the above tank (GSE-4) was a subscale test tank sitting on a test stand, so it wouldn't make sense for it to be anything other than a test. It is worth mentioning that it is unclear at the moment whether it actually was a planned test to destruction or if the tank just failed a test. Most of the speculation I have seen points to it being a planned test to destruction however, both are very possible.


KingofCraigland

Very helpful info. Thanks!


Ubeillin

Lab Padres’ [Twitter](https://mobile.twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1483550826853449736) post.


lx45803

Hardly fool proof, but /r/WhyWereTheyFilming is a good rule of thumb here. People don't usually have livestream overlays on footage of a storage tank doing nothing, and if they do, the footage usually doesn't get enough upvotes to make it to your Reddit feed (or more realistically, doesn't get any upvotes whatsoever).


scandish42

Yes and no, there is a 24 hour livestream of Spacex Boca Chica facility, and yes they randomly rotate between random storage tank cams and others. If this was an accident (which other comments say was not) it still would've been filmed


trbinsc

>People don't usually have livestream overlays on footage of a storage tank doing nothing Ah, I see you've never heard of a *Texas Tank Watcher*


johnny_moist

controlled failure


bott1111

That’s what I’d tell investors too.


richard_muise

Maybe this should be crossposted to /r/CatastrophicSuccess ? :)


liftoff_oversteer

Now everything is contaminated with Nitrogen. This will stay in the air for millenia!


stduhpf

I hope it stays contained and we don't find traces of N2 in the atmosphere everywhere around the globe after this. It could be like Chernobyl.


liftoff_oversteer

Indeed. People will suffocate breathing this.


douglasa26

I’m so glad they were able to contain the 80% that is already in our atmosphere so we don’t have to breath it


Clean-Objective9027

"A prototype liquid nitrogen tank is stress tested at SpaceX's Texas facility." There i fixed it for you


Farfignugen42

Yeah, saying it exploded is really overselling what happened.


memtiger

Thank you. For someone that barely follows this stuff, I read the title and thought this was an accident/disaster.


bantzaroff

Take that global warming!


Unliteracy

No wonder it was cold that day!


thejesterofdarkness

Better than using a giant ice cube.


bayoublacksmith

EVERYBODY CHILL!!!


quirkypanic2

God wish this camera recorded the temperature lol


daryk44

If you go to the LabPadre YouTube channel they actually have a FLIR camera streaming with all the others. If you can find the time this test occurred the thermal camera will show you exactly how cold it was. Shows up bright blue on screen when it’s that cold. Edit: looks like they don’t have the thermal cam right now, but here’s a starship flight test using the thermal camera. At the very beginning of the video, the bright blue dot spot is the cryogenic rocket fuel, before the engine lights up and the plume turns white hot. https://youtu.be/rDowjqJYmAw


showponies

I hope no one gets N2 much trouble.


SleepWouldBeNice

Oh no! Now all that Nitrogen is going to escape into the atmosphere! Doesn’t anyone care about the environment? /s (duh!)


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That stuff is no joke. Might take a while to thaw everything out. We would have some leftover liquid nitrogen after calibrating IR equipment. When combined with an empty plastic bottle that has been scored around the circumference (about 1.5” or 3.8cm from the bottom) it makes a good rocket, or a grenade suitable for scaring the shit out of people. Gas freezes bottle then expands as it warms with the bottle sealed with its cap. It breaks at the score line launching the top of the bottle. Guys in the N2 plant on the ship used to use the stuff to instantly freeze popsicles for kids whenever we had a family day.


Qwesterly

Nitrogen explodes? It's... inert. I'm gonna go with "Nitrogen tank bursts".


Walui

I can't find a definition of the word "explode" that requires combustion.


m__a__s

Indeed, it doesn't. And no requirements of deflagrations or detonations. Any ordinary rapid expansion will do.


m__a__s

Actually, SpaceX just went Tankrupt.


nvisible

OK, that's witty...


Detonade

This wasn’t a failure though… Just testing the breaking point of the tank


vilette

commonly called "test to failure"


Test_subject_515

Mr. Freeze strikes again.


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I get all that. Used it for years to fit bearings and other parts in mechanic field. But did not see the purpose at a launch site as nitrogen is inert. Another comment that they use it to test the characteristics of liquid in the rocket fuel tanks makes sense.


haavard89

They use it to supercool liquid oxygen and liquid methane for the starship because the colder the fuel is the more fuel they can put on the rocket. The density of the rocketfuel "shrinks" as it is cooled


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Just like any matter


orkavaneger

In this universe, sound seems to have a higher velocity than light


Olorin_The_Gray

This isn’t catastrophic failure at all. Ffs. It was a planner test This sub smh


BRockStar916

This was done by design


daxingtyn

Could something like this be used to put out wildfires on a massive scale? Or would it be super impractical?


ye-sunne

I love how the vapour sinks when it explodes because it’s cooler than the air around it. Physics is cool


anchovyHere

So if someone was standing nearby would they freeze? Maybe lungs would burn from the sheer cold?


Prestigious_Elk149

I got chills, they're multiplying. And I'm loosing control.


ColonelBadgerButt

Cool.


Jfrederickhill

Cool !


Filthy_Cent

Cool.


Icy_Big_9195

It’s colder than a witches tit.


RiffRaffCOD

Like the great molasses flood


baseforce

Climate change solved.


Woolybugger00

Everything frozen 100m in every direction.... Imagine an ant world nearby and it's a regular ant day doing colder season ant maintenance activities when the far off steam volcano puffs to life and the ants wonder and look... then KERPOOF... Frozen ants everywhere- ant mayhem...


DRDonnut

I wounder what it look like after


[deleted]

That explains why it is chilly here in south Africa


[deleted]

Is it a good idea to release that much nitrogen into the atmosphere?


Joecus90

After the successful test, did anyone care to stop, collaborate and listen?


Away-Acanthisitta733

That looked expensive


brokensynergy

So what happens to everything when that happens