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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?
High-speed Road Trip (18.000KPH)
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.
If you want to know how to build something similar yourself, Kent Fukuzura has some easy to follow instructions.
I guess jewlery stores will now use transparent aluminium instead.
That device is very similar to my 'Death Ray TM'
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?
I have no idea:
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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...
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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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