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Passenger jets should have tanks of liquid nitrogen that they can spray out the back and cloke the plane from a heat seeking missle. Would only be required during takeoff and landing, & much safer than letting off flares over an urban area.
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Passenger jets should have tanks of liquid nitrogen just for the passengers to play with. That stuff is rad. |
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I'd like a cold Cloke, please. With ice. |
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//liquid nitrogen just for the passengers// |
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"For persons wishing to play with our in-flight liquid nitrogen, there will be a $4.00 fee for the storage dewar." |
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It's not a bad idea. I'm not sure that you could get enough into the atmosphere to adequeately mask the heat signature of a lumbering large craft like a passenger jet, though. |
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I have had the fortune to play with a few liters of liquid nitrogen and found it to be a really interesting thing. Freezing bananas and shattering them, etc. |
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Food stylists use it to make the food "steam" in food shots for commercials and film. |
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Simpler to have the aircraft deploy "chaff" on takeoff and landing. Proven technology, lower cost and complexity. Downside: messy. |
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What to do if the heat seeking missle approaches from the front? |
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I don't think there'd be much of a thermal profile, approaching from the front. You could always have the LN exhaust from the nose of the craft, enveloping it. For something like this I don't think visibility is too much an issue. |
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Yeah, you'll forget about the missle as your plane flies through it's own cloud of liquid nitrogen and shatters |
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