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Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave
Tom writes "Everyday objects can produce interesting effects when you stick them in a standard microwave. Grapes spark, matches create superheated plasma fireballs, mini lightning-bolts arc between sheets of aluminum foil, and soap both splits open and puffs up, creating a somewhat vulgar spurt of bubbly excrement that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. However, as cool as microwave experimentation can be, balls of plasma and the like are bad for both your eyes and your microwave, so it's probably best not to try these things at home. update This site apparently is behind a really nasty popup that I missed (yay Firefox) the first time through. You've been warned... here it is but given the overall rottenness of the pop-up, I guess I wouldn't bother. Some folks know no shame. My apologies to the readers.
What? No kitty cat?
I really doubt it. Care to reword that?
While the videos are pretty entertaining, there's a ridiculous amount of spam and popups (particularly on ie). After every video, I was taken to another site where it said I had to order a plasma screen TV just to watch the vid, uuggghhh.
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I take a ripe 1" cherry tomato, insert a wooden toothpick into about the center, and put it on high for about 1-2min. The tomato launches the toothpick across the microwave.
So then I take 20 1" cherry tomatoes, insert toothpicks, arrange them in ranks facing each other at the range of the tested shots, and cook my favorite "tomatoes battle royale".
I'd love to see someone video that to YouTube, maybe with some other characters inserted into the battlefield. Like grapes injected with rubbing alcohol, which will boil and burst faster than the watery tomatoes shoot.
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I remember one time when I was on a weekend drinking session in Belgium, one of my friends proposed that microwaves only heat up objects with water in it. So the digital photocamera should withstand 10 seconds of radiation... I was allready passed out at the moment and learned from the disaster the next day.
A few months later I decided to check whether the flashcard still worked. It did! After viewing the photo's and movies we made before frying the camera, we could remember a lot more about that night:P
This isn't news, nor is it really even funny. Who hasn't done this?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
1. Microwave one of those Hungyman "Beef" Taco dinners with potato wedges for approx 10 minutes.
2. Eat said Hungryman dinner.
3. In approx 40-120 superheated plasma fireballs should start expressing themselves out your posterior.
4. Change underwear as needed.
I'm tired of all the Microsoft/Novell stuff, NASA going to asteroids, the latest PS3 updates, etc.
FINALLY... information that matters to ME in such a way that the whole Britney/Fed-Ex stuff seems to matter to everyone in the US.
(and in case you think I'm being sarcastic and mod me -1 Troll... no, I'm serious...I am very excited about an article about putting various things in Microwaves...I like the patterns it makes on CDs, and I like the electrical storm that the "split grape" shows)
(and yeah, after Dave Barry mentioned toasters & pop-tarts...I did that TOO...my wife was not happy)
(now if only I could get my hands on some liquid Oxygen for the barbeque)
``However, as cool as microwave experimentation can be, balls of plasma and the like are bad for both your eyes and your microwave, so it's probably best not to try these things at home.''
That's why the Internet is so great. Other people run destructive experiments and publish about them, so I don't have to.
When I first read this story I was inspired. I tried placing a microwave inside a larger microwave.
There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
get a casette tape and cheap mini player stick both in the microwave and play the tape. the tape turns cool colors and then the batteries explode!
is Mr. T done eating my balls?
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Your first click on any of the videos will give take you a popup for a poker site. This guy deserves a slash-dotting.
I once burned a hole in the top of a microwave admiring a big plasma blob that was created with cigar smoke. Fortunately it was a MW at work which I owned. I've also exploded numerous lightbulbs (small explosions) in the MW, zapped many cd's etc. Turning a clear pyrex bowl upside down and slightly propped up on one side on the MW turntable will help contain the plasma blob until the bowl breaks or melts. Very cool, I mean hot.
Not the superman villain but UK explosive science show 'Braniac: Science Abuse' - they regularly stick stuff in Microwaves, as well as do other things like demolish safes with tanks etc. It's a great show - here are the Microwave clips on Youtube - http://tinyurl.com/y6oan8
I get the metal objects sparking...
I get the skinned objects exploding...
I even sort of get the soap puffing...
What I don't get is the grapes sparking - what's going on here?
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don't give jagbags like this guy the satisfaction actually steering traffic to his site.
video viewing requires some inane product registration. this guy is trying to get free product thru your clicks, and figures a high traffic generating site like
what's up with that, tomcat7194@gmail.com?!?? run out of friends and family to sell out for your free ipod and mac mini, you gotta try the
WTF! i can't believe CT would actually allow a submission like this to make it all the way thru...
come on CT, wake up, drink coffee, and kill this f*ckin' article!
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Place a six inch ball of pultonium wrapped in one inch of plactic expolsives in microwave. Heat on high until plutonium atoms fuse.
1) Set up cheesy website with somewhat interesting content
2) Add Google Adwords on every page, popup ads, and "you're a winner" onclick pagers
3) Submit to Slashdot
4) PROFIT!!!
Seriously, linking to a page of videos where each link takes you to that pyramid-scheme scam and won'says it won't show you anything until you're done? WTF, Chuck?
They want their fun science back :) w ave+brainiac
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=micro
Ah well. Slow news days happen, don't they?
I viewed it with Firefox and AdBlock.
You mean there were ads? I just saw some text, and empty background, and the videos.
The videos were interesting.
I for one welcome the slow news day.
It is great to code/install/assemble/whatever one day without the interruption of disturbing slashdot stories.
Kid you not. Green olives will spark in the microwave. Place three in a circle with the orange center (forgot what that's called) close to each other and nuke em. Sparks will fly!
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Here's a much better description.
If you are going to watch videos of things in a microwave, it might as well be operated by a guy in a gorilla suit.
http://www.microwavegorilla.com/
right here
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/wontonway.com
the more people that do it the more you will protect others who dont run adblock,hosts file and Firefox
A friend accidentally learned that it's not a good idea to put just any type of mug in a microwave oven.
:)
One night, he was staying overnight in the lab and became hungry so he decided to cook instant noodles using the microwave oven. He got a mug, choosing probably the one nearest the oven, put some water and noodles, and placed them in the oven to cook. It turned out that the mug is actually a metal cup covered with plastic with an attached plastic holder. As expected, the mug heated up so much that the plastic melted and left the mug in a funny, distorted shape.
Unfortunately for him, the mug has a sentimental value to the owner since it was given by another labmate. He was forced to become an assistant to that labmate in a talk in order to replace the mug with an exact copy.
The funny and ironic thing is we are both physics majors and members of an instrumentation physics research lab (the lab that I'm talking about). The owner of the mug is also the professor in the optics course we are taking during that time.
The moral of the story: be extra careful when you're hungry
A much better question, and more importantly, one that is actually relevant to this thread, would be "what happens when you put an operating XBox into a microwave?" We really need an answer to this question, so if you would be so kind as to perform the experiment and post a link to the video here on Slashdot we would greatly appreciate it. You'll get extra credit points if the machine is playing Halo 2 at the time. Don't worry about your girlfriend's reaction, she obviously just bought the machine to get you to stay at her place for more than five minutes and will soon get over the loss.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
a ridiculous amount of spam and popups (particularly on ie).
You must be new. And not just here.
Hey! I've seen microwaved Gremlins, at least I did when watching the film!
On a side note, I think I'm getting old...
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security - Ben Franklin
View the page in Opera if you dont want any spam/pop-ups.
The mythbusters did this some time ago
Unfortunately, I don't have a camera with batteries. Besides, once I did this, then I really wouldn't have any reason to stay more than 5 minutes at her place. Well, let me see if I can find some batteries for my camera. No.
No.
I really need video. Damn.
> It doesnt work, won't play discs. Sony support is slashdotted.
> Apparantly I'm not alone. Fuck this junk.
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Wow, I've seen people complaining for quite a while that sometimes a Slashdot post is old news. Well, here's a new one. This one is decades old. Kids have been putting things in the microwave that they shouldn't for decades now (including some well known cases of things such as jawbreakers that exploded after they took them out...) I mean, no offense or anything, but most of us really did already know that if you put ordinary objects in a microwave interesting -- sometimes dangerous or at least damaging -- things happen.
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http://www.whirlybang.com/microwave/
Furby Doll while microwave humming:
... Pop pOp POP! sssst....'
'Glub Glub Blub - Oooh wii hee hee Aaahzzzz z Pssttssss ZZZZZzz
Of course, you will need to do a Furby Post-Mortem.
(Once the flames are out.)
as you wish - slashdotting the popup, it's already slow....
I use IE 7. Never even saw a popup. Perhaps the poster should switch?
End of Line.
I bet it will have some nice effects w/the RFID chip!!
How the hell did this get posted on the main page? Is there a lack of stories or is this really front page material? These videos aren't even new. I think I saw the soap video a month ago in a mail from a friend who keeps spamming me with stupid videos.
http://www.badscience.net/?p=270
Presumably they ended up faking an explosion where they placed lithium?? (Something highly reactive around lithium) into the bath tub. It just didn't explode so they blew it up using explosives. Much worst than the Mythbusters where their explosions actually happen and if it doesn't they make it clear they are blowing up stuff.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/cd.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/chipbag.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/bulb.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/ornament.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/soap.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/matches.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/foil.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/egglow.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/lemon.wmv
http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/GRAPEMED.wmv
What I wonder is why these reactions would be bad for your microwave. Does it cause the device to draw too much power? Is it backfeeding, or it is just more a concern of setting small fires up in the microwave?
From my (perhaps uninformed) perspective, when you're frying an egg or a slice 'o' bacon, the object is obsorbing the energy/heat from the microwave. Perhaps the grapes or tinfoil etc are emitting energy, but unless that actually gives a surge back into the components of the microwave how does that cause lasting damage?
That's gotta be a violation of Google's terms of service.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
Here are some direct links to the videos...
.... Chip Bag
.... CD
.... Light Bulb
.... Egg
.... Tin Foil
.... Lemon
.... Grape
.... Soap
Unfortunalely in wmv format, but playable in Mplayer.
I used to zap CDs in the microwave, both for the show (it's cool to watch) and the results (the cd looks cool afterward). I was one of the few people who actually looked forward to a new AOL sign-up cd.
I haven't nuked a cd in years, mostly because it smells awful. But if anyone out there hasn't tried it, you should, and make sure you open your windows and get a fan, and be prepared for a smelly kitchen for a day or so. It's very cool to watch a cd inside a microwave - for a brief moment you'll see a wave of electricity spread from one side to the other, right across the surface of the cd. And afterward, the pattern will remain etched onto the aluminum of the cd itself, so you'll have a cool looking cd.
Trial and error shows that you'll get the best results by keeping the microwave time to a bare minimum, maybe only 1 second.
.. or that's what it feels like. I didn't actually see the Newton's cradle one, just the other ones that were on telly. I hope it's not all faked, but the guy who plays Dr Bunhead on Braniac has admitted the bathtub thing was staged.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0, ,1821144,00.html
I heard that Wildcat is on the spoke.
X rays!
What kind of microwave oven would offer enough room for an XBox?
Take your javascript and shove it up your ass: http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/cd.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/chipbag.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/bulb.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/soap.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/ornament.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/matches.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/foil.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/egglow.wmv http://www.wontonway.com/microwave/lemon.wmv
"Is it just me, or does season two really kinda suck?"
Doctor Who has never been one for scientific accuracy or realistic plots. It's about good story telling.
Just look at the whole "Bad Wolf" thing from Series 1.
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This fellow has been at it for some time:
http://www.powerlabs.org/uwavexp.htm
I'm looking forward to seeing the details on his latest 2kW microwave gun:
http://www.powerlabs.org/images/uwhorn.jpg (full page not up yet)
http://www.powerlabs.org/
Interesting guy.
that I didn't RTFA!
http://www.amcottbakeoff.co.uk/services.htm
my bad- that turned up on google images search for "giant microwave" but nowhere does it actually say microwave?
has anyone mentioned microwavecam.com?
Those were awesome but even better was the google ad at the bottom. Mine was for an industrial strength microwave generator :D Can anyone guess what I'm thinking? Yeah, I'll meet you at the match factory!
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
Put a continuous row of mashmallows in the microwave with no rotation. With the right time, the marshmallows puff up in the form of a standing wave. You can measure the wavelength of the microwaves approximately.
Back in, ooh, 99, 2000ish if my memory serves, Jeremy Clarkson had a short-lived chat show called, surprisingly enough, Clarkson. One of the regular segments was putting something (like christmas lights, for example) into a microwave to see what happened.
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The experiments I remember as being even more fun were the potato canon (a potato placed in a spaghetti tube with hair spray in the bottom that was heated to the point of ignition) and its larger brother, the turkey canon (similar principle, but with a steel bin).
When I saw Brainiac, it immediately reminded me of those segments of Clarkson. Plus, you know, it was fun for about half a series, but it's got old now. There's only so many ways you can blow something up
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
EVER.
It has none of the charm or actual science of Mythbusters and yet the people who make it think they're the coolest, funniest, sexiest people in the world. What they don't realise is that they're actually English.
-caitsith01
Did anyone else here the voice talking after the lightbulb exploded? :)
I found a scorpion hanging around the spoon rest on my stove (I live in Arizona), so I popped it in a disposable plastic container, popped container into microwave, and nuked for 10 seconds. Three seconds later, the scorpion's innards exploded through its anus leaving the exoskeleton intact. Looked neat, but the smell of cooked scorpion is not appetizing.
5. ????
6. Profit!!
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Try "will it blend" on youtube instead.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-774555780 8969038697
Tons of great shit, sustained grape-produced plasma, soap, peeps, many CDs -- all filmed in microwave and put to Bloodhound Gang's "Fire Water Burn" (the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire...). props to MicrowaveCam.com, the makers of the original movies. I wonder what kind of toxic gases were released into the atmosphere during the making of this film?
Once upon a time, when I used to ride a bicycle 25 miles each way (total of 46 miles per day) to and from work at a certain aerospace company in Seattled whose name begins with a B, I got soaked in pouring rain.
And I forgot to bring my change of clothes.
So, I did what I thought was the next best. I put my underwear and socks in the Amana RadarRange in the breakroom and turned it on.
And, promptly forgot about it as I went about giving myself a sponge bath using paper towels.
No sparks; no plasma; oh no . . .
But the stink.
Yes, that stink spread throughout the whole building.
Fortunately, it was 5:30 AM when I did it and no one was around and this was in the days before pervasive surveyilance TV.
No one saw me, but when people arrived later that morening, they were greeting by the smell of cooked underwear and socks.
Opps!!
Cleara
That blue flash is not due to Cherenkov radiation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident for more information.
Screw that - just eat at Taco Bell ;) 10 minutes later.....
Disclaimer - I used to work for TB. I'd eat their food for my lunch breaks (Customized steak quesadilla with extra jalapenos, fresca mix, and with baja sauce, what?)
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
and cut it to lambda or lambda half (2.4 GHz --> either 6 or 12 cm). Put it in Microwave. Turn it on. Watch the wooden shell disintegrate as the graphite starts to glow with a bright white you'll never forget :-)
Just go to blinkx.com type "microwave" and hit search...you will get almost every microwave experiment video...that's ever been posted to the web.
I can't believe that blinkX hasn't be slashdotted either it is the way cool way to search...
A coconut, obviously...
I once visited your shitty excuse for a country, and after a night drinking your shitty excuse for beer (fizzy piss, basically) in a shitty excuse of a nightclub, I was looking forward to visiting Taco Bell. I really don't know what the fuck it was I ordered, but it was what everyone else got. It looked like a rabid mongrel with diahorrea had shat uncontrollably all over what appeared to be the wrinkled, scraggly, labyrinthine labia of an experienced whore that had been stretched out but poorly ironed, with some puss-like cheese substance dribbled over the top. It was fucking disgusting. I forced a single mouthfull down but it was so foul, so rank, that I became immensely angry and had no option but to shoot everyone in the restaraunt.
What would really be awesome is to see Brainiac putting some thermite in the microwave and nuking it.
Good god, man! That was one of the funniest things I've ever read on /.
I've got Firefox with NoScript and Adblock + Filterset.G Updater w/ Whitelist enabled and all of these extensions seem to come pre-configured to allow Google text ads but I don't see them. Does anybody know how to remedy this?
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
This was the funniest thing I have seen all week. I laughed so hard I actually cried!
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