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A Foundry in Every Kitchen
WolfWithoutAClause writes "Bored with making the same old food or
plasma in your microwave? David Reid sounds like he is. He's using his domestic microwave oven to melt iron, silver and bronze! Over 900C! I don't know about you, but I'm going to be checking the temperature of my pizza rather more carefully in future..."
This is sweet! I could forge my own One True Ring - Deep inside Mount Panasonic, a master ring was made on High-Power to rule them all!
This ranks right up there with using liquid oxygen as charcoal lighter. The mpeg is quite impressive, though.
The dogcow says "Moof!"
Of course this will require a follow up visit to repair the damage done to your opposing teeth.
... if the microwave ran cooler (pun intended).
If the microwave could somehow have a thermostatic control, I could take a bag of grade-5 bolts and nuke them to a grade-8 tensile strength. The button for 1040-steel alloy can go next to the popcorn button.
:-)
To properly control the grain structure of the metal, the heating & cooling processes have to be controlled precisely for temperature vs. time (very non-linear and not instinctive). Introduce a quenching process in the microwave, and I bet you could make some serious bucks selling/operating this thing.
The dogcow says "Moof!"
Take one green grape (not seedless) and cut it width wise, leaving the skin on one side intact so it forms a sort of hinge. When you lay it in the microwave it should look like a pair of breasts.
Run the microwave for 10-15 seconds. The grape will spark and then burst into flames. Many all-nighters in college were punctuated with breaks to show people this wonderous phenomenon in the dorm microwaves, and now you too can try it at home. yay.
That's what the microwave at work is for!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
When i used to work as a repair tech for a local clone computer shop, i used to go and grab all the aol disks outta the modem boxes, and nuke em in the back room nuker (5 secs does it nicely), then tack em up on the shop wall. When customers would ask what the hell had happened to the cd's, i said it contained a vicous trojan horse that destroyed your tcp/ip stack (this was back when aol software had a hugely nasty habbit of utterly corrupting your ip stack) and that i was sterilizing the cd so that people didnt accidently destroy their OS. Customers would nod agreeingly afterwards.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
I've no quarrel with frozen pizza designed to be microwaved. When hunting and gathering one must accept what one finds. But you savages who defile perfectly excellent cold left over pizza have no place in a civilized society. Some social ills make me wonder what horrible childhood pain would cause a person to behave in such a disturbed manner. But those dysfunctional individuals microwaving delectible left over pizza, clearly they must be shot, incinerated, with their ashes encased in glass rods, buried under a mountain or maybe a salt flat, then covered with lye and never spoken of again.
When people ask "What's this world coming to?" you can be sure that people who microwave perfect precious left over pizza are at fault. Filthy animals!
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
Oh, you're all geeks.... the lot of you... Not nerds like the site says, GEEKS!
The worst thing about this is that some of you here will actually think this will Get you chicks!
Argh! I need my pills? Where are my pills?
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