Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave 205
Tom writes "Everyday objects can produce interesting effects when you stick them in a standard microwave. Grapes spark, matches create superheated plasma fireballs, mini lightning-bolts arc between sheets of aluminum foil, and soap both splits open and puffs up, creating a somewhat vulgar spurt of bubbly excrement that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. However, as cool as microwave experimentation can be, balls of plasma and the like are bad for both your eyes and your microwave, so it's probably best not to try these things at home. update This site apparently is behind a really nasty popup that I missed (yay Firefox) the first time through. You've been warned... here it is but given the overall rottenness of the pop-up, I guess I wouldn't bother. Some folks know no shame. My apologies to the readers.
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"matches create superheated plasma fireballs" (Score:2)
Actually, it does work (Score:5, Informative)
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Well, we can't have you watching such entertaining videos on some inferior non-plasma tv now can we ?
Come on, this is Super Heated Plasma Fireballs we're talking about here, it's only fitting that they're watched on a vision re-production device capable of understanding the concept of Plasma, isn't it ?
Being a member of Slashdot, I expect you to be rather smart, hell, I bet you're A Nuke-u-lar Scientist, am I right ?
Well then, you more than most should understand that a screen capable of using Plasma, will be best for reproducing the effects of the video.
Do you remember early TV sets & the snow effect ?
Of course you do, what if I told you that if you buy this TV, you wouldn't even need to get that video ? You could just turn this puppy on & stare at the screen, BAM, instant Plasma video & you didn't even have to waste your time downloading a video off the internet.
So, will that be Visa or Mastercard ?
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The universe as we know it might implode.
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Perhaps, but not in the sense I believe you're thinking of.
You see, I payed alot of money for this State Of The Art Plasma TV, actually, I'll be paying for it about the same length of time I'll be paying for my house when you figure in intrest & fees.
So yes, if you put it in the microwave, the universe as you know it, will cease to exist, aka, implode.
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On Opera 9 here, no pop-ups, no ads, no redirects to a plasma tv site. The only thing I've seen getting through are the CSS ads where the ad is simply another layer in the CSS, otherwise it's smooth sailing.
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Maybe thats a firefox advantage?
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Cheers, Gene
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Food Fight (Score:5, Funny)
So then I take 20 1" cherry tomatoes, insert toothpicks, arrange them in ranks facing each other at the range of the tested shots, and cook my favorite "tomatoes battle royale".
I'd love to see someone video that to YouTube, maybe with some other characters inserted into the battlefield. Like grapes injected with rubbing alcohol, which will boil and burst faster than the watery tomatoes shoot.
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So why don't you do it? You have the vision already, just need a day or so to shoot it.
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Thanks for the encouragement, but it'll probably take months before I have the time to spend a half-day having a blast with this little feature.
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Prioritize, Dude. Prioritize!
KFG
Photocamera (Score:4, Interesting)
A few months later I decided to check whether the flashcard still worked. It did! After viewing the photo's and movies we made before frying the camera, we could remember a lot more about that night:P
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Not only water, it also heats fat. I'm not pretty sure at the moment, but I think it heats fat faster than water.
Instructions for superheated plasma fireballs... (Score:4, Funny)
2. Eat said Hungryman dinner.
3. In approx 40-120 superheated plasma fireballs should start expressing themselves out your posterior.
4. Change underwear as needed.
Re:Instructions for superheated plasma fireballs.. (Score:2)
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Finally... for nerds...stuff that matters... (Score:3, Interesting)
FINALLY... information that matters to ME in such a way that the whole Britney/Fed-Ex stuff seems to matter to everyone in the US.
(and in case you think I'm being sarcastic and mod me -1 Troll... no, I'm serious...I am very excited about an article about putting various things in Microwaves...I like the patterns it makes on CDs, and I like the electrical storm that the "split grape" shows)
(and yeah, after Dave Barry mentioned toasters & pop-tarts...I did that TOO...my wife was not happy)
(now if only I could get my hands on some liquid Oxygen for the barbeque)
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That's Why the Internet Is So Great (Score:5, Insightful)
That's why the Internet is so great. Other people run destructive experiments and publish about them, so I don't have to.
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I mean... as long as the microwaves aren't being reflected back at the magnetron, what's the big problem with creating plasma in a cup?
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Microwave (Score:5, Funny)
There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.
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Dr Who != reality (Score:2)
Doctor Who has never been one for scientific accuracy or realistic plots. It's about good story telling.
Just look at the whole "Bad Wolf" thing from Series 1.
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There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.
David Lynch called. He wants the idea for his next movie back.
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That's just Charles, shrunk down to tampon size for Camilla
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I put instant coffee in the microwave, and time ran backwards.
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Malkovich.
Malkovich malkovich malkovich?
Malkovich!
Malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich.
Malkovich malkovich?
fun but dangerous (Score:2, Interesting)
IS IT STILL 1995? (Score:3, Funny)
plasma (Score:5, Interesting)
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CDs are great (Score:3, Interesting)
I haven't nuked a cd in years, mostly because it smells awful. But if anyone out there hasn't tried it, you should, and make sure you open your windows and get a fan, and be prepared for a smelly kitchen for a day or so. It's very cool to watch a cd inside a microwave - for a brief moment you'll see a wave of
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I actually did this at work last week. Someone brought me a couple of CDRs to destroy (they had confidential data.
I was feeling a bit blue so I decided to cheer myself up with some pretty effects. 2 seconds does not set off the fire alarms but I agree about the smell!
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Or just take your microwave outside.
Braniac has been doing this for ages.. (Score:4, Informative)
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I've just been told Santa doesn't exist.. (Score:2)
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Warning Braniac does fake thier results (Score:3, Informative)
Presumably they ended up faking an explosion where they placed lithium?? (Something highly reactive around lithium) into the bath tub. It just didn't explode so they blew it up using explosives. Much worst than the Mythbusters where their explosions actually happen and if it doesn't they make it clear they are blowing up stuff.
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no cesium is a shitload WORSE
i've seen small ammounts of lithium sodium and potassium dropped into water in a school science lab, approximately the same ammount of each and the lithium was the least violent of the three.
the teacher couldn't demostrate more than that for safety reasons but she showed us a video where they did the entire sequence from lithium through to cesium, lithium was pretty uneventfull, sodium burnt relatively gently, potassium burnt violently, ru
Clarkson beat 'em to it (Score:3)
The experiments I remember as being even more fun were the potato canon (a potato placed in a spaghetti tube with hair spray in the bottom that was heated to the point of ignition) and its larger brother, the turkey canon (similar principle, but with a stee
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1414369/ [imdb.com]
Well, I'm not sure being a Brummy counts. He's also the same guy who crashed in that 'fast'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/09/21/uhammond.xml [telegraph.co.uk]
(well, it used to be fast)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bbc-puts-brakes-o n-top-gear-after-crash/2006/09/26/1159036516486.ht ml [smh.com.au]
car a month or two back...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/richard_hammond.shtml [bbc.co.uk]
I wonder what happened exactly. Some mec
Grapes (Score:4, Insightful)
I get the skinned objects exploding...
I even sort of get the soap puffing...
What I don't get is the grapes sparking - what's going on here?
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Also, why is it bad? (Score:2)
From my (perhaps uninformed) perspective, when you're frying an egg or a slice 'o' bacon, the object is obsorbing the energy/heat from the microwave. Perhaps the grapes or tinfoil etc are emitting energy, but unless that actually gives a surge back into the components of the microwave how does that
SpamDot!?!! (Score:5, Insightful)
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don't give jagbags like this guy the satisfaction actually steering traffic to his site.
video viewing requires some inane product registration. this guy is trying to get free product thru your clicks, and figures a high traffic generating site like
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WTF! i can't believe CT would actually allow a submission like this to make it all the way thru...
come on CT, wake up, drink coffee, and kill this f*ckin' article!
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This story should be removed immediately, it being a slow news day is no excuse for posting something ridiculous as this. Amazing how this even got through.
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View with Firefox and AdBlock (Score:2)
You mean there were ads? I just saw some text, and empty background, and the videos.
The videos were interesting.
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Fun Mr Wizard experiment (Score:5, Funny)
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Is this your idea of "cold" fusion? =)
Re:Fun Mr Wizard experiment (Score:5, Interesting)
Better yet, take the ball of plutonium and form two hemispheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around it to fit closely. Put the ball in one hemisphere. Then, using a screwdriver as a spacer, lower the other hemisphere over the plutonium ball. Make sure not to slip. If you see a blue flash from Cerenkov radiation inside your eyeballs, write your will after you've stopped barfing.
(They actually did similar experiments at Los Alamos in the 40s. And, yes, the screwdriver did eventually slip. Not only once, but two people actually got "bit by the dragon."
-b.
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Unfortunately, even then you will still end up with unpopped kernels.
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Slashdot used to have standards (Score:2)
2001 called... (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=micro
Ah well. Slow news days happen, don't they?
Green Olives (Score:4, Interesting)
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I don't know how that tradition started.
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Don't try that when you're hungry (Score:2, Interesting)
One night, he was staying overnight in the lab and became hungry so he decided to cook instant noodles using the microwave oven. He got a mug, choosing probably the one nearest the oven, put some water and noodles, and placed them in the oven to cook. It turned out that the mug is actually a metal cup covered with plastic with an attached plastic holder. As expected, the mug heated up so much that the
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I once decided to boil an egg in the microwave and got the fright of my life. I placed the egg in a small bowl of water and then that in the microwave on high...
The explosion sounded just like a hollywood action movie explosion. Bang-BOOOOOMMMMM!!! The explosion was so powerful, that it blew the door right open, breaking the thick strong plastic latch on the door.
It was not a cheap quality microwave either. It was a large Panasonic.
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Pop-up? (Score:3, Funny)
Links directly to WMV's (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/chipbag.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/bulb.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/ornament.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/soap.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/matches.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/foil.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/egglow.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/lemon.wmv [wontonway.com]
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/GRAPEMED.wmv [wontonway.com]
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Google Ads + popups? (Score:5, Informative)
Direct links (Score:2)
Here are some direct links to the videos...
.... Chip Bag [nyud.net]
.... CD [nyud.net]
.... Light Bulb [nyud.net]
.... Egg [nyud.net]
.... Tin Foil [nyud.net]
.... Lemon [nyud.net]
.... Grape [nyud.net]
.... Soap [nyud.net]
Unfortunalely in wmv format, but playable in Mplayer.
Soiled Socks & Underwear are Interesting (Score:2)
And I forgot to bring my change of clothes.
So, I did what I thought was the next best. I put my underwear and socks in the Amana RadarRange in the breakroom and turned it on.
And, promptly forgot about it as I went about giving myself a sponge bath using paper towels.
No sparks; no plasma; oh no . .
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