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Post number 7744

lagado — Wed, 16 May 2001 18:34:46 -0800

Fun with microwave ovens including how to make cost effective decoy radar systems for confusing NATO bombers.

By: dukejohnson

dukejohnson — Wed, 16 May 2001 19:38:48 -0800

i am so trying the burning toothpick when i get home!

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Wed, 16 May 2001 19:57:46 -0800

Thankfully, I searched that site and no references to small animals (that was so '70's!.)

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 16 May 2001 20:33:24 -0800

wow. even better pics here.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 16 May 2001 21:42:46 -0800

how about the chain saw made from a chevy 350. (link to follow) i invade knoxville tomorrow. i love this post.

By: lucien

lucien — Wed, 16 May 2001 22:54:14 -0800

The only thing putting me off trying out some of these um, "experiments" is the fact that I'm dismayed by the thought of the work involved AFTER the fun is over. "Coming over for a few drinks?" "Not tonight, I'm cleaning exploded light bulb and congealed unidentified stuff from the microwave" "Oh. OK, but can you please return those CD's you borrowed?" "Uh...." The NATO story is a classic. Um, does this mean if you have a faulty microwave, your life is endangered in more ways than one?

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 16 May 2001 22:56:19 -0800

Apparently the spread of CD/Microwave information about the Internet started originally through alt.folklore.science with the alleged help of Annals of Improbable Research though I can't verify that. Can anyone? Here's some more CWOTs for ya. Physics in a Microwave Oven featuring "Finding the hot spots in your microwave with fax paper." Fun With Grapes a case study. nifty fractal pattern etched into the aluminum of a CD. More Fun Things to Do with Microwave Ovens How Things Work: Microwave Ovens Reasonably Safe Experiments (hardly): including Exploding Egg and Bubbling Soap.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 16 May 2001 23:37:48 -0800

That oven-as-missile-decoy story has characteristics of an urban legend: strangeness from familiarity, little guy beats big guy, money beaten by cleverness, well-whaddya-knowness, etc. Has anyone seen any non-amateur sources that back it up? And if it's true that they tried it, did it really work or did it just back them feel good? It reminds me of people who hang a compact disc from the rear-view mirror because, they think, it defeats police radar. (And the bunny-cooked-by-radar story sounds like an urban legend within an urban legend.)

By: leafy

leafy — Thu, 17 May 2001 01:25:01 -0800

A confusing NATO bomber: 'I'm going to bomb you! No I'm not!'

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 17 May 2001 03:16:16 -0800

Lord only knows how toxic the fumes must be after making lightning with your old Huey Lewis CD.

By: lagado

lagado — Thu, 17 May 2001 05:14:50 -0800

That oven-as-missile-decoy story has characteristics of an urban legend My thoughts exactly, pracowity. Still, sometimes it's nice to give a budding meme a nudge on its way to urban mythdom.