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- lavawalker, on 05/18/2008, -0/+46Direct link: http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/the-microwave ...
- mikem94590, on 05/18/2008, -2/+25From what I can understand, they had "the right camera setup to capture the digital destruction in all of it's glory".
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -0/+18I almost posted the same thing one time when I couldn't come up with anything sensible. But I decided not to.
- Mawds, on 05/18/2008, -0/+17Nice pictures, although the word 'jump' made me very angry.
- NeoCortex, on 05/18/2008, -0/+16A tactical nuclear strike. It's the only way to be sure.
- merdiesel, on 05/18/2008, -1/+16Looks like a planet about to explode.
- JJCDAD, on 05/18/2008, -1/+16I only see one gorgeous shot. ?
- Qays, on 05/18/2008, -0/+10AOL CDs
- brotorious, on 05/18/2008, -0/+10You can see thunder?! Amazing!
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -2/+12If you mean how the pictures were taken through the protective barrier, there's software out there that's pretty good at filtering out things like cages and auto-filling what should be behind it, like Akvis Retoucher. It's not accurate, but with some Photoshop work after using it, you can get pretty decent photos with it.
http://akvis.com/en/retoucher-tutorial/lioness-in- ... - dyranios2, on 05/18/2008, -1/+10Would this be an effective way to destroy any information on a disc?
- consoneo, on 05/18/2008, -0/+8I have a feeling he meant "...through the metal mesh that protects from the microwaves."
- Darren07, on 05/18/2008, -0/+7Followed by: Gorgeous shot of messed up Microwave.
- jks139, on 05/18/2008, -3/+10Anyone know how he got such clear images?
- fishpen0, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Other fun things to nuke:
-Silverware (not the expensive set that matches the china - wife/mom will kill you)
-Balls of tin foil (try different arrangements of balls and strips)
-Onions ( Whole explodes, chopped/sliced/diced is like firecrackers)
-grapes (fire) - inactive, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Getting footlong'd will never catch on. You recieve F, for failure.
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -3/+9And now a video featuring Rick Astley
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU - desertDenizen, on 05/18/2008, -0/+5I would have preferred to have to think of the answer. :)
- ElusiveByte, on 05/18/2008, -0/+5Here's a long exposure I took. I think a long exposure is the key to getting a good picture because the various arcs are short-lived. The room was totally dark, and I held the shutter open for 3-4 seconds as the CD provided its light show. I used a tripod, of course.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elusivebyte/447123440 ... - supermajic, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4Incinerating it would probably me more reliable but that's an interesting question..
- Mawds, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4RAWR!
- sega01, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4I wonder if DVDs look any different than CDs when microwaved. They are so much more dense but to my knowledge are very similair in design. Perhaps someone could also fork out the money to try a Bluray or HD-DVD :-).
- brbeaird, on 05/18/2008, -1/+5Buried for "hit the jump."
- vikki77, on 05/18/2008, -0/+4How many microwaves have my tax dollars paid for? I'm sure there's a less expensive way to destroy CDs.
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3I buried you on accident, when I really meant to digg you up for reminding me of the countless hours of throwing, smashing, breaking, burning and generally ***** with of AOL CD's. Good times, good times...
Then I remembered that I could undigg you and then click on the right button. THANK YOU DIGG SO MUCH FOR THE NEW COMMENT SYSTEM! IT ROCKS!
"A++++ comment system, would use again!" - curseoflou, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3nice story.
*puts gun in mouth and pulls trigger* - magnetarc, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3Additionally...
-A bar of soap (expands)
-Crisp packets (shrinks)
-Xmas tree decorations (interesting fireworks display)
-DVDs (different fireworks display to the CD)
-Lightbulb (illuminates - but will explode after a short period)
Safety note - don't try a cup of water. May seem harmless enough, but it will 'superheat' to above boiling point pretty fast and becomes very volatile. It will explode in your face with a little interaction (adding say, some coffee beans or simply moving the cup).
Oh, and eggs aren't so fun. - Dsenff, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3Reminds me of when we were moving. Me and my friends took about 20 AOL CD's and put them in our old microwave...It was the most...uh..."Gorgeous?" thing I've ever seen.
- IEatHamburgers, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3You gotta wonder how he took a shot of that thing without getting the camera nuked as well.
- Aroundtheworls, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3From the website comments:
The fractures first grow via a fascinating effect called “electromigration.” Once the aluminum layer has been spontaneously sliced into separate sections, high voltage appears across the fractures, and arcs start leaping across.
Try this: put one or more glasses of water in the microwave. It slows down the whole “zapping” process.
The arcing is not quite a “radio antenna” effect. An empty microwave oven contains an extreme e-field because of resonant rise. Any two conductive objects will be at two different voltages with respect to ground. The voltages can be pretty high (many kilovolts.) If two sharp-edged conductors such as the foil segments in a CD are very close together, the high voltage between them will cause arcing. It’s purely a voltage effect rather than the electric/magnetic effect present in a radio antenna. (An unloaded microwave oven is very much like a Tesla coil.)
But the aluminum layer gets sliced up before all this high-volt stuff happens. Why? It’s because there are large currents induced in the aluminum foil by the radio waves. The current isn’t nearly enough to hurt the foil. But if tiny defects exist in the foil, such as microscopic regions of insulator, these defects cause the “lines of current” to become compressed near the defect. It’s sort of like a lightning bolt, but rather than lines of e-field being attracted to the sharp tip of a plasma streamer, instead lines of charge-flow are pushed away by the sharp tip of a growing fracture in the aluminum. The lines are squeezed and the current density increases. If the tip of a fracture was infinitely sharp, the current density in the metal in front of the fracture would be infinitely high. A microscopic region of aluminum “goes away,” and the fracture gets longer. New fractures grow from the sides of old ones.
It’s like “inside out lightning bolts,” since the fractures are a network of insulators growing in a conductive environment, and the growth is caused by currents rather than voltage which concentrates at the tips of the growing fractures. - PBMainiac3, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3should be noted this is generally a bad idea to try this at home
- jjremy, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3I thought grapes made plasma?
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2I actually cooked an egg, still raw and in its shell, in a microwave once when I was younger.
It quite violently blew the door to my microwave open and rendered my microwave completely useless. I had a fun time explaining that one to my parents...
"I wanted a hard boiled egg, but I'm not allowed to boil anything! You said I couldn't! *watery eyes*" - I used to use excuses like that all the time. Everyone thought I was half retarded, when in reality I was just a damn good liar. :P - desertDenizen, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Irreverent iridescence.
- CaviMike, on 05/18/2008, -2/+4How about a link to the pics?
http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/the-microwave ... - fishpen0, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump Jump
- frogsoblivious, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2He prob shot it with a macro lens, off camera flash, and high shutter. and a tripod.
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -1/+3When I was in the Marine Corps, working at the pentagon, this is how we got rid of sensitive files.
True story. - MiamiRox, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Holy *****, if I did that to my mom's microwave she'd beat my ass into next week.
On a lighter note, I remember back in the day taking the small doritos bags, poping them in the microwave for about half a minute and shrinking them. Great Success. - kuyman, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1What would be the point of all that when you could take off the door of the microwave, trick the microwave in to thinking it was still attached and pointing an old manual focus camera with a fast (f/1.8 would do) lens prime at it and pushing the shutter? I just saved him 2000 dollars.
- wafu, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Absolutely gorgeous my dear.
- kuyman, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1With a film camera, probably. You can do crazy things with old manual focus cameras like exposure them to crazy stuff like radiation. As long as it doesn't fog the film, you're fine.
- vikki77, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Really cheap hot dogs spark if you cut them into pieces.
- Witchbaby, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Define "gorgeous"
- JBmtk, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Am I the only one who saw what he did there?
- jimek, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1No.
- macinfloydvolk, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1In my computer shop I destroy unwanted CDs of customer data/information in this exact way. My microwave is an old one I don't care about but typically ten seconds it good. Leaves the CD unusable and as a small shop I don't have to pay a grand for a professional device. I'll get into how I hand hard drives in another comment sometime.
- matschig, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1I just stick my hard drives in the microwave. Works.
- matschig, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1A++++ If i was a bee, and you were my keeper, i wouldn't sting you!
- evilpoptart, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1wickedly beautiful.
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