Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave?

msaulters writes "After repeatedly setting off RFID scanners in a truck stop, the author discovered the culprit was a wad of $20's in his back pocket. In a paranoid attempt to keep the government from tracking him, he attempted to fry the embedded chips in his microwave, with interesting results." Alex Jones has interesting theories about a number of things, but evidently a lot of readers were interested in this one.

Comments

Experiment

[Mazzella!]

Here's something to try:
1. Cut thin slices of AL Foil As thin as you can get it, .5cm... 1/4 of an inch or less.

2. cut peices of paper up into roughly the shape of a 20-spot. Cut the paper from different sources, news paper, printer paper, fax paper, etc.

3. glue the AL foil strip to a peice of paper, then , stick another peice of paper on top, glue another strip of foil above the other location, another peice of paper, etc.

4. Stick stack of paper with embeded AL Foil into microwave.

Observe results.

It is my hypothesis that each strip of AL foil will gather a charge, and try to discharge through the paper, therby setting it on fire/scorching it.

BTW, ever cut a grape in 1/2 but leave a small peice of skin attached, and pop it in the microwave for 4 seconds? /\_/\ Arc...Sparc...Bang.

Re:'Quotes'

[dolphinling]

And whatever child or grandchild posts appear here (if any) mod them up, again, on general principles.

w00t, free mod points!

Re:Haha

[Plac3bo]

yea, gravitron...and the most skilled people were able to stand perpendicular to the wall(i only ever saw this done by the ride operator). you had to be stoned to enjoy the full experience.