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Liquid nitrogen vaporizes, forming a gaseous layer which protects exposed skin. You *can* put it in your mouth, and look like you are breathing steam, but you can't swallow it (as the gaseous layer gets forced aside causing you frostbite when the liquid presses against your internal linings, and it rapidly expands in your stomach, which makes you expand too, possibly fatally). See http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000-25.html

You can wash your face with it, but your hair / body hair *can* perforate the gaseous layer, resulting in localized frostbite, and hair loss. If you jumped into a pool of it, it would kill you, but *just don't do that*. Geez.

It's like the difference between a hot coal, and a pot of hot coffee. Drop the hot coal on your lap, and it will vaporize the top layer of your clothes, causing no real damage (and creating lots of comic relief for observers), unless you leave it there for a significant period of time. Drop a pot of boiling coffee on your lap, and you may no longer be able to reproduce. But people just assume that the hot coal is more dangerous, because it is hotter.

because Americans used to be CAN-DO GIANTS with ENORMOUS BALLS of STEEL

as opposed to some nationalities...

This is Darwinism at work. Let the expired drive-by tweeters and texters be declared, en masse, the next Darwin Awards winners.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

Reported deaths: 1 (heart attack)

Let's put that in perspective, the Bhopal disaster (chemical based) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release

In fact, 1 death is on a par with the number of deaths related to people putting lava lamps on stoves (that we know of)

You mean, like this?

Resistance is Futile
1999 Darwin Award Nominee
Unconfirmed by Darwin
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html

There are plenty of dumber people in the world who kill themselves by trying to accomplish something truly stupid every year.

All hail the Darwin Awards...

If someone can get this to actually work, it may save lives in the future! http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html Sorry...

Sometimes human beings have to die, just a little, for something really spectacular to happen.

...as a warning to the others, perchance? :)

The less apt individuals don't pass on their genes. That's the whole point of the Darwin Awards.

Is there some fund or organization that I can contribute to that will distribute GPS devices to morons^H^H^H^H^H^H disadvantaged families?

The less apt individuals don't pass on their genes. That's the whole point of the Darwin Awards.

Apparently a 1999 Darwin award winning entry, and I found a CBS news article that mentions it. But even stranger is the fact it wasn't one person involved, but two "coordinated" car bombings -- and both of them detonated an hour early.

Combo-fail!

You might want to check their slush pile:

http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/new/pending20101229-052307.html

Like this one

This nutjob is apparently already in the running for a Darwin Award...

http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/new/pending20101229-052307.html

Yep, and if they're really lucky tehy may even win an award for it!

Better a live fool 100 times than a dead fool once.

There IS though, such a thing as being too cautious.

"Funny you mention Darwin though.. . The guy traveled around the world, visiting remote deserted places for years at a time in a era where such voyages were still the equivalent of playing Russian roulette. Also gross stupidity?"

Um.... what? Don't you know why it's called the Darwin award?? HAND IN YOUR GEEK CARD IMMEDIATELY!

It's unfortunate how people can apparently avoid a Darwin Award thanks to technology. The gene pool is unfortunately and obviously affected by this issue. I fear for the future...

And of course, there's an excellent source of proof that human beings can get themselves killed in amazingly stupid ways: The Darwin Awards.

Congrats! You just established a new level of profound stupidity for slashdot. I fully expect to find your name published here in the near future.

The popularity of the game led to development of numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.

Source: Wikipedia

How do you or Mobile1UP know that Sony wasn't planning on porting Lemmings to iPhone/iPad/Android? Firstly, you don't. Secondly, it's irrelevant! It's not a condition of copyright, patent or trademark law that you have to make your work available on all platforms past, present and future. The intended purpose of patent and copyright systems is indeed to provide incentive to produce, and therefore advance the state of the art, or enrich culture. However, Lemmings on the Amiga did that. Job done. They (now Sony) have copyright in the original game. That's what they get for developing the game (or rather..buying the developer of the game).

Besides which...you can buy a Lemmings game on a current generation console! How is that letting the property stagnate? And how in the name of Zeus' butthole did you get modded insightful? To have the bare-faced cheek to rip off a game, which, with the exception of a single-screen disclaimer that it's not authorised by SCEE, is indistinguishable from the original Lemmings, and then to try and distribute it through the Apple App-Store is possibly the most retarded thing I've ever seen since Sony tried to install rootkits on their customer's machines. We all love to support "the little guy" against "evil corporations" but this was the single most obvious outcome since that guy tried to play Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol.

Nothing is stopping Mobile1UP from making their own version of a "Lemmings" game, with their own graphics resources/levels and their own music etc. Do you think they'd be happy if someone came along and made such an exact copy of one of their original games and started distributing it through the App-Store?

(Did you know you can get 440 wired residential without a permit?)

Yeah, but you need to use an insulated ladder and cable splicer if you don't want to end up on YouTube.

That'd be a lot more likely to end up on Darwin Awards.

And she would have won a Darwin Awards...

OBLIG: http://www.darwinawards.com/

Death is not actually required for a darwin award. Inability to further reproduce is sufficiant for that part of the critera. This can be achived without death for example by blowing your balls off

For those still able to breed they have a category "at risk survivours" (previously termed "honourable mentions")

Some Welsh guy got one for cutting his bollocks off, isnit. http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-14.html

Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard.

He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror.

Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. "Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything," the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported.

WTF? If you wear a condom you can't reproduce!

But would you be able to feel the whoosh?

(Yes, I'm aware, and was mocking GP for suggesting that having unprotected sex could qualify one for the darwin awards

Shouldn't this article have a link to the Darwin Awards somewhere in it?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Please, if you're going to buy a jetpack, please don't breed FIRST.

... Also, never underestimate the fact of self-preservation, when encountered in a life threatening situation, people tend to do the right thing and move away from danger. People are self-regulating when it comes to life and death.

And in this spirit, ladies and gentleducks, we proudly present you the 2010 darwin awards.

You can get the same thing with an alcohol enema.

And we've all been there, right?!?

Right...?

2007 Darwin Award WINNER: The Enema Within

read through the Darwin Awards
I'm shure you'll find some stunts there, that are crazy enough for you... happy imitating...

Interestingly, men seem to take risks, even "no win" stupid ones, much more often than women (sorry, no peer reviewed citation for this impression).

For example, most recipients of Darwin Awards are men - why? Females are badly underrepresented - indeed, of the six nominees on the front page as I write this, only TWO seem to be female - THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, women don't even get to compete for the award in equal numbers -- let alone win in equal proportion to their gender. The UN must pass a resolution immediately that more women must be encouraged, perhaps mandated, to do stupid life- (or at least gonad-) threatening things.

The rules say that already having reproduced doesn't automatically disqualify you.

A metaphor with many meanings

Yeah... like this? http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html Much better than the old JATO!

Since you just need to remove yourself from the gene pool, you don't have to lose your life. You could just horribly maim your genitals!

seems to be what happened here http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-14.html

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Yeah, but at least I had the common sense NOT to do several things that are almost guaranteed to make you appear in the obituaries. You will probably notice that the Darwin Awards rarely if ever show freak accidents. It's usually awarded for doing something that is almost guaranteed to kill you, and that you, as a being more or less capable of thinking coherently, should know that. Care to show me the logic in:

Taking a billiard ball in your mouth"
Digging out armed land mines to place them somewhere else?
Juggling grenades?
Using the blunt end of a loaded shotgun to crack open a window? (last line, not that the other short mentionings were any smarter...)
Cutting off your balls over a bet?
Or your head?

And so many examples more that are impossible NOT to end up lethal.
How do you want to defend ANY of those "logics"?

Too busy teaching her how to play Russian roulette responsibly.

Lesson #1: Don't use a semi-automatic pistol.

We already have enough problems with people running into walls, other people, walking into intersections and getting run over by buses -- and that's with just iPods and bluetooth ear leeches. People go driving off bridges, across corn fields, etc., with navsat equipment... And before we solve the human interface problems here, we're talking about immersing people further?

We've already addressed this problem. It's called the Darwin Award!

They have Honorable Mentions, too.

Do you honestly believe that more than 50% of all germans felt it was right and proper to cart off a couple of million Jews to to concentration camps?

Might I suggest that you learn a little bit of history. Start with "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R Browning and then maybe "The SS, Alibi of a nation 1922-1945". After that read up how Hitler managed to come to power and exactly what he told people before he did. Then, ignorant little fuck that you are, maybe you'll deserve the "darwin award" you asked for. As it you're lucky to escape with a proper Godwinning (note clause II.5) and a realisation that you're really lucky to escape with just unanswerable insults. You little toe cheese.

then duct tape a lawn chair on top of it

Didn't I see this on the Darwin Awards?

The story reminded me the Jato Rocket Car urban legend. The speed reached there is even lower than the one that got that motorcycle.