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Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)
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#12Thankfully this article uses GIF thumnails instead of the full sized images. Thanks to that, I was able to load the page very quickly with my 500 Mbps bandwidth.
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#13In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk. The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because of the smoke. There was so much smoke everyone thought the building itself was on fire.
In the late 90s, someone in my house decided to put an orange in a microwave for 30+ minutes just for the hell of it.
Nothing happened for the first 20 minutes or so, but then the orange cracked open and belched out thick black smoke that smelled _disgusting_.
At some point I'm going to sacrifice an old microwave and recreate this experiment outside; I'm desperate to know what the heck is going on with that microwaved orange.
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#14In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk. The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because of the smoke. There was so much smoke everyone thought the building itself was on fire.
In the late 90s, someone in my house decided to put an orange in a microwave for 30+ minutes just for the hell of it. Nothing happened for the first 20 minutes or so, but then the orange cracked open and belched out thick black smoke that smelled _disgusting_. At some point I'm going to sacrifice an old microwave and recreate this experiment outside; I'm desperate to know what the heck is going on with that microwave…
A niece did something like that as her high school science fair project. She got a cheap microwave from Walmart, then tested theories on how long various items would last before becoming a smoking pile, based on their sugar, fat, and protein content.
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#15In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk. The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because of the smoke. There was so much smoke everyone thought the building itself was on fire.
I assume you commit seppuku at that point to restore your honor.
No, just sudoku
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#17There is a surprising amount of energy in food. It's also possible to make a thermic lance using materials such as spaghetti or bacon:
https://hackaday.com/2011/02/11/thermic-lance-made-from-spag...
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#18(1994)
Added above. Thanks!
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#19This is the web I really miss!
Right?
The crazy thing is I remembered the title from way back then as soon as I saw it in my RSS feed. The web was a small place.
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#20In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk. The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because of the smoke. There was so much smoke everyone thought the building itself was on fire.
In the late 90s, someone in my house decided to put an orange in a microwave for 30+ minutes just for the hell of it. Nothing happened for the first 20 minutes or so, but then the orange cracked open and belched out thick black smoke that smelled _disgusting_. At some point I'm going to sacrifice an old microwave and recreate this experiment outside; I'm desperate to know what the heck is going on with that microwave…
Wild guess: sugar burnt black, which smells horrific.