What happens when professor doesn't allow laptops in class...

[Pegun]

...and you break his rules:

Smash

Searched for professor, laptop, smash and didn't find anything.

 

[Red Squirrel]

liquid N2 is fun. I remember making ice cream with it in high school.

 

[Aharami]

wow that dude's got a chip on his shoulder

 

[Analog]

stupid.

 

[Kalmah]

If he didn't buy me a new one, and/or there was unreplaceable data on it.. I would find his car and do more than slash his tires. A matter of fact, I would do more than go out of my way to fuck with him as bad as I could.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I can't watch this at work, but if it's what I think it is (pretty sure) then it's OLDER THAN TIME, and is also fake - eg the student was in on it.

 

[Balt]

Since they admitted it was staged, you would at least think they could have gotten a camera shot of the actual smashing.

 

[Meghan54]

If he didn't buy me a new one, and/or there was unreplaceable data on it.. I would find his car and do more than slash his tires. A matter of fact, I would do more than go out of my way to fuck with him as bad as I could.

Oooooo..........tough guy!

 

[joesmoke]

first its this... next thing you know hell be teaching 8 year old kids to freak dance!

 

[D1gger]

It says right in the description:

In an effort to make a point, a professor freezes a student's laptop with liquid nitrogen then smashes it. NOTE: THIS WAS STAGED! the laptop was not functional at the time.

 

[joesmoke]

Oooooo..........tough guy!

if u cant handle da tuffness den u best stay off da internets :awe:

 

[clamum]

Sorry, -10/stagedfail.

 

[Kalmah]

Oooooo..........tough guy!

Haha

Seriously, I'm not trying to be an E-tough guy. If it wasn't staged.. I would be so pissed that I would end up at the police station.

 

[Bignate603]

If he didn't buy me a new one, and/or there was unreplaceable data on it.. I would find his car and do more than slash his tires. A matter of fact, I would do more than go out of my way to fuck with him as bad as I could.

You do realize that it was staged, right?

 

[Cattlegod]

yeah this looks like it was just a fun demo/etc at the start of a new semester

 

[yhelothar]

As long as that rule doesn't include my tablet. I <3 my tablet so much. I haven't needed to bring paper or print out lecture slides since I've gotten one.

And that kewl LN2 shattering trick doesn't work if there's no water involved in the shattered object.

 

[Nik]

Oooooo..........tough guy!

I would have, too. I'd be incoherently outraged and I'd probably have done something about it right then and there.

 

[Bignate603]

As long as that rule doesn't include my tablet. I haven't needed to bring paper or print out lecture slides since I've gotten one. The hell if a professor is going to restrict me from using it.

After sitting in classes and seeing 95% of people using computers just surfing the internet I can completely understand that he doesn't want laptops there.

And that kewl LN2 shattering trick doesn't work if there's no water involved in the shattered object.

It most certainly does. At very cold temperatures many materials get incredibly brittle. Plastics and even some metals can shatter like glass if its cold enough.

Shattering pennies

 

[Newbian]

As long as that rule doesn't include my tablet. I haven't needed to bring paper or print out lecture slides since I've gotten one. The hell if a professor is going to restrict me from using it.

Then I guess you won't be attending his class and get a incomplete.

 

[yhelothar]

After sitting in classes and seeing 95% of people using computers just surfing the internet I can completely understand that he doesn't want laptops there.



It most certainly does. At very cold temperatures many materials get incredibly brittle. Plastics and even some metals can shatter like glass if its cold enough.

Shattering pennies

hmmm so some materials...
I just tried shattering a crumpled up paper dipped in LN2 when I was bored in my physics lab :awe:
Thing didn't work. Then my TA told us that usual items that shatter are ones that have liquid inside, like a flower or an animal.
I wet the paper and retried it and it shattered.

 

[eits]

that was kinda dumb... it was staged. no fun.

 

[nerp]

hmmm so some materials...
I just tried shattering a crumpled up paper dipped in LN2 when I was bored in my physics lab :awe:
Thing didn't work. Then my TA told us that usual items that shatter are ones that have liquid inside, like a flower or an animal.
I wet the paper and retried it and it shattered.

Paper was dry and thin, warmed up too quickly. Strike it while in the cold stuff next time.

 

[jman19]

Found this amusing until I saw it was staged...

 

[skyking]

banana peels are great, they have a built in handle. dip them in about 3/4ths and use the remaining part to swing them into the table top. We used several gallons of N2 a day at the machine shop i worked at.

 

[Jeff7]

It most certainly does. At very cold temperatures many materials get incredibly brittle. Plastics and even some metals can shatter like glass if its cold enough.

Shattering pennies

And metals will start to show signs of brittleness at relatively warm temperatures. They did a demo for us in an early class, I think it was the Charpy test, on a steel sample. At room temp, it showed signs of stretching before breaking. But on another sample cooled down to something like -20°F, or whatever it was, it wasn't too terribly cold, it looked more like the failure mode of a much less ductile material - only from that small temperature change, it became considerably more brittle.