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Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters
gollum123 writes "Reports about a study that found microwave ovens can be used to sterilize kitchen sponges sent people hurrying to test the idea this week — with sometimes disastrous results. A team at the University of Florida found that two minutes in the microwave at full power could kill a range of bacteria, viruses and parasites on kitchen sponges. They described how they soaked the sponges in wastewater and then zapped them. But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge. "Just wanted you to know that your article on microwaving sponges and scrubbers aroused my interest. However, when I put my sponge/scrubber into the microwave, it caught fire, smoked up the house, ruined my microwave, and pissed me off," one correspondent wrote in an e-mail to Reuters."
... i hope he sticks his fucking head in and rids us of his stupidity.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Mrs Premise: Busy!? I just spent four hours burying the cat.
Mrs Conclusion: Four hours to bury the cat?
Mrs Premise: Yes, it wouldn't keep still, wriggling about, 'owling.
Mrs Conclusion: Oh, it's not dead then?
Mrs Premise: Oh no no, but it's not at all a well cat and as we're going away for a fortnight, I thought to better bury it just to be on the safe side.
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
Fuck, I sound like some Eugenics Nazi but really stop running yourselves down, have a shower and go out and breed people!
While all you are doing is observing what is happening in the world, I'm sure there are plenty of fucktards that would try to burn you at the stake for stating the facts.I did my part - I have 4 kids of my own.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
More bleach in the environment, great. But what is more interesting is this paranoiac obsession in the US for everything to be sterile. What's that all about?