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Everyday Objects Placed In a Microwave

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the works-for-mythbusters dept.

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.

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  1. That's Why the Internet Is So Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ``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.

  2. Poker Popups... by waterford0069 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your first click on any of the videos will give take you a popup for a poker site. This guy deserves a slash-dotting.

  3. Grapes by waterford0069 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

  4. SpamDot!?!! by capsteve · · Score: 5, Insightful
    DO NOT CLICK THE STORY LINK!

    DO NOT CLICK!

    DO NOT CLICK!

    DO NOT CLICK!



    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 /. will give him the clicks for free product.


    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 /. community? i think this kind of behavior will get your gmail account banned.



    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! ./ get's abused enough, don't let it get abused with this kind of trash or people will think /. has jumped the shark!!!

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    1. Re:SpamDot!?!! by BruceCage · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hear, Hear!

      This story should be removed immediately, it being a slow news day is no excuse for posting something ridiculous as this. Amazing how this even got through.

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      Perfect is the enemy of done.
  5. Re:Photocamera by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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
    He was right on the first point, but utterly stupid to think that the only thing microwaves do is heat water. Microwaves induce electric currents in metal. If you microwave a complex enough electronic device, guaranteed something inside it is going to get a nasty, fatal overcurrent. This is one of the dangers of adult beverages. They make people forget their ignorance and come up with all sorts of terrible "logical" conclusions.
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