MetaFilter posts tagged with microwave

Try putting a lightbulb in a glass of milk

mippy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:20:21 -0800

Microwhat is a website where people microwave stuff, just to see what it looks like after 60 seconds on setting 9. [warning: blinky]

Microwave science!

ocherdraco — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:01:23 -0800

Measure the speed of light using your microwave. (via The Puzzler, who is, incidentally, a mefite)

How to Microwave Gourmet Popcorn in a Brown Paper Bag

swift — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:35:46 -0800

How to Microwave Gourmet Popcorn in a Brown Paper Bag.

Seriously, don't try this at home.

empath — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:29:25 -0800

Microwave vs Cell phone.

Who's taking up all the space in the freezer?

sevenyearlurk — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:27:19 -0800

This meal wasn’t so much a lunch as an act of vengeance. The brave -- or perhaps just lazy -- souls at HeatEatReview sacrifice their tastebuds and stomachs so that cubicle dwellers like me can eat only the finest processed foods at our desks every day. Actually not like me, I'm having another damn salad.

Micro Maniac

daninnj — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:28:03 -0800

What happens when you put marshmallows, footballs, eggs, gum, Christmas lights, or ketchup packets in the microwave? The results of 21 products cooked to a soggy mess. (Flash, music, Kraft Blue)

Got oil?

sunshinesky — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:10:23 -0800

Need oil? Try microwaving your plastics.

Microwave Cookery

Chinese Jet Pilot — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:15:00 -0800

The cavity magnetron is the secret weapon that saved Britain in World War II. In 1946, Dr. Percy Spencer stood too close to a magneton and invented the microwave oven.

This is why you're not

parmanparman — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:39:53 -0800

$15 microwave -- this is why I'm hot. Via. $15 microwave -- this is why I'm hot (break it down now)

Fry me with a nuke

infini — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:21:47 -0800

Wanna get nuked? the Active Denial System [just say no?] was launched yesterday - its a microwave ray gun that makes people feel like they're going to catch fire. Wasn't there a ray gun at a certain point in a book we trashed a while earlier?

Graphite, a microwave oven, and thou.

OmieWise — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:58:48 -0800

Foudre en Boule avec des micro-ondes (Making ball lightning in your microwave). Complete with movies and audio spectrum analyses. From the Plasma Research website. Also: how to build a stable plasmoid in your microwave; simple ball lightning generation in your microwave; and, last but certainly not least, how to build yourself a glow discharge plasma panel. "This panel is not able to generate some thrusting effects, but you will be able to explore some OAUGDP properties like the air drag reduction effect and to test the EM Cloacking effect."

Protestors Finished in Under a Minute

lerrup — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:22:35 -0800

Scary Sci-fi inspired riot control being discussed in the New Scientist. I did check to see if this had been posted before...

It sounds a lot like science fiction.

dsquid — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:25:25 -0800

It sounds a lot like science fiction. It moves at the speed of light and it can penetrate walls. The U.S. military has firepower that uses electromagnetic energy to blind, stun or kill targets. Defense contractors are eager, but the weapons are not yet being deployed.

Marshmallows-A Take-Home Lab

thatwhichfalls — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:02:55 -0800

How to calculate the speed of light with a microwave and some marshmallows
via Making Light

Pentagon readies microwave bomb for Baghdad

Postroad — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:37:45 -0800

Pentagon readies microwave bomb for Baghdad There go the blogs in Iraq! Might be worthwhile going to war just to test this new toy, says one cynic, the poster of this link.

Physics inside a microwave oven.

jragon — Fri, 24 May 2002 19:42:23 -0800

Physics inside a microwave oven. I came across this informative link while looking up some physics information. I thought this short movie of a grape in a microwave was amazing. My microwave has never done anything as cool as this.

Fun with microwave ovens

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.

"I get this strange burning sensation when I riot."

werty — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:38:53 -0800

"I get this strange burning sensation when I riot." The Pentagon wants to produce a crowd-dispersal weapon that sends electromagnetic waves up to 700 yards, making people in its wake feel like their skin has been stuck in a microwave. Supposedly there are no side effects. (The NY Times' coverage has a photo of the device strapped to a Humvee.) One of these could really come in handy on the morning commute.