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Using Microwaves to Drill Through Glass
Linux_ho writes "UPI is reporting that Israeli researchers have developed a drill that can melt a small hole in glass, ceramics, or concrete with no dust or noise. Nature.com reports that it doesn't work very well with good heat conductors or materials with very high melting points, but the researchers envision a wide variety of manufacturing applications, and possibly some medical uses as well."
Can it be suction-cupped onto a piece of glass to cut a perfect circle out?
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I've always wanted holes in my windows.
What kind of time are we talking about for the average hotpocket? I'm just thinking about the immediate benefits here.
...Burglars and Bankrobbers Corp. raised it forcasts for the financial year 2003 after a R&D breaktrough.
What a great way to make holes in complicated glass pieces. I see a brave new future for the science of "pipe" making.
Stoners of the world unite ! Yay for those ingenious asians
>What is the advantage of using a microwave over a CO2 fire-extinguisher?
because if you use your microwave, you can keep the extinguisher handy for putting the fire out afterwards..
If you want to know how to build something similar yourself, Kent Fukuzura has some easy to follow instructions.
Yeah, but after experiments with CD's in microwaves, you have to agree that it would look good... whilst being totally ineffective...
I guess jewlery stores will now use transparent aluminium instead.
That device is very similar to my 'Death Ray TM'
This sounds like a nice invention for burglars. Now they no longer have to make noise when trying to break the window.
Next week on /.: invention of a burglar alarm that can detect microwaves.
This probably would have solved the cracking problem in Apples now defunct cube...
Who are you? The new #2 Who is #1? You are #617565. I am not a number, I am a free man! Muhahaha.
...top secret weapons labratories?
Physicist #1: Oh man, this Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray bottle would make a killer bong!
Physicist #2: Ah, they shatter on the drill press, I tried it last week.
Physicist #3: (eyes red and bleary)Hey, what's wrong with the microwave? I wanna make this popcorn.
Physicist #1 & #2 (in harmony):Microwave?
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...the price of tinfoil hats has doubled overnight in response to the news. A foil hat manufacturer, when asked, was quoted as saying "Well, we had to double the price. People gotta protect themselves from those orbiting mind-control lasers, alien mind probes, and now they gotta worry about Israeli scientists drilling holes in their heads!"
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I'm assuming the microwaves don't work any more after they use them to drill the whole?
Think "Return of the Pink Panther in the 21st Century..."
What else is a silent, dustless, precision glass cutter good for?
Vortran out
P.S. - This is a joke. Please do not feel compelled to point out that the thing probably fills up a whole lab and has all the portability of a pile of bricks.
Knowledge is like ignorance.. too much can be just as bad as not enough.
...until you can mount one of these on a shark's head... that would be frickin' cool!
And then you could sell it here...
"For every right, an equal responsibility..."
Sir? Could you please stop your tank a moment? We need to cut a BIG HOLE in it. Hello? Hello?
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What else is a silent, dustless, precision glass cutter good for?
An easily escaped, slow-starting, elaborate death-machine for the next Bond film?
"Vell, vell, Meester Bont! Vonce dis meecrovawe emitter has reached your krotch, it vill begin to heatink it unt den ve vill be pushink a rod into it. Dis process vill be takink about tventy minutes to begin. Ve vill be leavink you to your fate now."
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I didn't have anything in it, and accidentally hit the cook button instead of the minute timer button. 20 Minutes later, POOF! The whole thing caught on fire. Turns out that the mixing belt failed, so it was all focused on the door. The engineer said, "Lucky you didn't loose the whole house! I've seen them burn straight through glass light bulbs...."
Pictures and story here.
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