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Dunno anything about these folks' rings, but I got my wife an engagement ring with Martian basalt in it. Thankfully she is also a nerd, and in fact studies the Moon and Mars for her research. Otherwise I don't recommend this tactic, as it's likely to get you slapped rather than engaged . . .

Then perhaps you can explain this?

...and someday we'll be using grapes as fuel!

Thanks - very interesting post AC: echoing your post below as it isn't modded up....

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Re:I WOULD worry about the laptop (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05, @06:41PM (#12983620)

> Consider this: Why can't you brown foods in a microwave without special equipment?

While it's quite easy to blacken and burn food from the inside out, or even make it burst into flames, that elusive trick of giving your food a gentle surface browning with a microwave oven will definitely require special equipment - to absorb the RF and transform it to heat in a more controllable manner, external to the food, which then gets applied to the surface of the food in the form of conventional heat for that browning effect.

> The temperature of your flame is much, much higher than you will ever attain in a microwave.

Wrong!

Try putting a single sliced grape in your microwave, and then try telling me that the blinding fiery arcs of electrified plasma are somehow below the boiling point of water.

http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/

It's a plasma arc, for crying out loud! How hot is that?

The main thing to realize is that more than just heat is involved. High voltages and powerful electric currents also pass through the food, affecting its chemical nature.

Try actually eating a grape that's been microwaved as per the above URL, and then consider how much microwave radiation you want your gonads exposed to.

Consider this: Why can't you brown foods in a microwave without special equipment?

While it's quite easy to blacken and burn food from the inside out, or even make it burst into flames, that elusive trick of giving your food a gentle surface browning with a microwave oven will definitely require special equipment - to absorb the RF and transform it to heat in a more controllable manner, external to the food, which then gets applied to the surface of the food in the form of conventional heat for that browning effect.

The temperature of your flame is much, much higher than you will ever attain in a microwave.

Wrong!

Try putting a single sliced grape in your microwave, and then try telling me that the blinding fiery arcs of electrified plasma are somehow below the boiling point of water.

http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/

It's a plasma arc, for crying out loud! How hot is that?

The main thing to realize is that more than just heat is involved. High voltages and powerful electric currents also pass through the food, affecting its chemical nature.

Try actually eating a grape that's been microwaved as per the above URL, and then consider how much microwave radiation you want your gonads exposed to.

I was most impressed by the small scale sparkling and fireworks.

Surprisingly, grapes are a lot of fun too.