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Part 1: http://imgur.com/gallery/qZld7?lr=1478513773
RIGGED!!!
Theresaholeintheworldthere
ellisDtripp25
Black part doesn't work
Phischstaebchen
I wait for racism-comments about #6 :P
Iaimtomisbehave
Phischstaebchen
lol :D
rustyonetwo
#6 but....BLACK LINES MATTER
notunrelevant
The actual quietest room is Microsofts Building 87 which has measured at -23 dB
Flyndaran
The real quietest room is when a southern state prom king comes out at his family reunion.
ScienceGoneTooFar
WallMarx
THis is a shit dump.
ErinFromTheOffice
#1 was an Archer episode
pachyderm
#11
MayaMacskusz
not worthy
MayaMacskusz
Cicciolina as actress
MetalSkeletal
#6 blackbarsmatter
imnotinprisonhidingaphoneinmybutt
I sleep approx 2 hrs outta every 24. I do NOT feel "elite" in any sense of the word. I often daydream about sleeping for 5-6 hrs straight.
UnPossibleMagician
Wait a minute, this is just a clickbait article.. It's a fucking ad in disguise!
groundscreeperwilly
Sweden's not really recycling the rubbish as such. it burns it as fuel for power stations
Ariltongadottir
I think they call it "energy-recycling", but yeah, they burn a lot and use it for heating and power.
jarjarbinkswasthebestcharacterinstarwars
I still heard that less than 1% ends up in a landfill which is extremely good
sailingbirdie
Well, 49% is burnt it CHP plants, 35% is recycled, 15% biologically treated and less than 1% landfill. Source: sopor.nu
kaitoofrose
#2 is what horror stories are made of.
Bricklemeyer
There was actually a neat story on nosleep about this. The narrator stays in the room way longer than she should, past the point when
kaitoofrose
For a tip next time, you can add replies to your own comment to make the explanation a bit more seamless. Still, yay for nosleep!
StoicJ
That isn't even the quietest. Microsoft made their own at -20ish. That's the lowest you can go because of air particles making noise
Bricklemeyer
3 to madness.
Bricklemeyer
2 everyone else started to go crazy and then heard a voice. And from that point on some disembodied voice began stalking her and driving her
PookyButt
Getting 6 hours of sleep is fine to functional, it's getting 6 hours and being happy that's the tricky part
onlyhalfghost
Lemme tell you 'bout this neat stuff called alpha methyl phenethylamine.
aleister94
I sleep six hours because I'm never happy anyways so I might as well get more done
gr33ntextman
I agree- i apparently have the gene for it- i sleep less than 4 a day, and am diagnosed with GAD
steveracer
I'm in the 3% 'sleepful non-elite'
samsonguy920
Bite me
twfeline
I can tell from your supreme level of competence at composition that you've been a little shy of sleep for quite a while.
JohnSmitheson
Saw somewhere that prolonged 6 or 7 hour sleep for months or years can have severe detrimental effects on health and attentiveness.
OSCgal
I believe it. Didn't we learn recently that various build-ups are flushed out of our brain during sleep?
Flyndaran
Hahaha. No. I'm a long sleeper. I perform best with 9 hours of sleep. It takes up time, but I can't argue with my biology.
WhispererInDorkness
Ilona for president
MayaMacskusz
Ilona is actualy Hungarian, but living in both country
uzerok
Transmitting high energy from orbiting solar panels to Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
twfeline
The very subject of many a science fiction story.
Bricklemeyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKXjJ7O0s4
Flyndaran
In the real world, the energy density wouldn't be mega-powerful death ray, but more like really intense daylight.
stealthkat14
neuroscientist here. the brain scan one is meaningless. theres no such thing as a psychopathic diagnostic scan.
myUsernameWasAlreadyTakenAndIHaveAcceptedMyFate
Yes. Barcode readers read the white in the same way that you read the white pages and not the black letters in a book.
myUsernameWasAlreadyTakenAndIHaveAcceptedMyFate
Its more the diffrence we and barcode scanners and any other scanner for that matter reads
tapemeasurepencilpenmouse
So that one episode of Archer was real?
Titititititititititidididididi
I wondered the same thing
DeviIsAdvocate
Which ep? I haven't seen season 7
BigbrotherEdward
It was in season 6
DeviIsAdvocate
Oh. And half of season 6. Need to catch up! Thank you, btw
asinineSkeptic
Which episode are you talking about?
tapemeasurepencilpenmouse
Season 6
baconsmellsreallygood
Season 6 Episode 1 : The Holdout
MisterBelcher
I immediately scrolled down to find this. I knew I couldn't be the only one to think archer right away.
BigBenThisHeresRubberDuck
To about 90% of these
onlyhalfghost
the Japanese soldier is legit; bar code scanners use the width of the lines, not the color; can't tell you most of the rest.
Goronhead
#5 is bullshit. All the "predictions" were added on later.
MyHumourProbablyIsntForYou
Black Lines Matter*.
Affray
Black lines matter, but it's the white ones that count apparently.
ellisDtripp25
Deserves more +1
Godzalo
#3 is definite bullshit. The exact causes of psychopathy are WIDELY debated.
Coykoi23518
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjhZfyhvR6w This video of james fallon is one of my favorites.
Coykoi23518
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyAndLa5HU And in this one he really goes in on his thought processes and what exactly he means.
Bricklemeyer
Also it's very, very hard to diagnose. The gold standard test involves being in prison, it certainly can't be done by brainscan.
Bricklemeyer
An interesting read: http://www.academia.edu/24571385/PCL-R_The_Gold_Standard_of_Psychopathy
ZombieXII
(1)It's not worded very well. I went to a lecture he gave and he explained that some of his research consisted of studying scans of people..
ZombieXII
(3)...He later discovered that his own scan showed similar patterns. This of course does not mean that the individual is psychotic.
Flyndaran
Laymen confuse statistical correlation above chance with 100% certainty. No understanding of nuances. :(
DarkUranium
ZombieXII
(2)...diagnosed with psychosis to find patterns. He and his team did identify patterns of activity that differed from “normal” activity.
ZombieXII
(4) Many other factors, including genetics, play a role and like you said, exact causes are still debated.
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
Fun fact: in 1919 $40 is $573 today...carry on
jc128
You clearly do not know how stocks and dividends work, my wayward son
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
NotErichHartmann
Which is obviously not how stocks work...
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
The fact i googled it should show how little i cared of it was true
abacab87
10,000,000 dollars in our money is 697,000 in 1919 money.
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
Think you used the same converter as i did
tangripper
that's why old people are so stingy with small amounts of money
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
Im young and i am stingy lol
tangripper
It are you gay for $20?
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
CheshiresShadow
...My wayward son!
SHiNiXiA
There'll be peace when you are done...
melotprieks
Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more
OldPogue
You are not considering yearly dividend reinvestment for 97 years, plus all of the 2-for-1 stock splits along the way.
abacab87
so what is 10 million dollars in todays money in 1919 dollars?
survivor03
$698k roughly
graygrif
They are saying that $40 in 1919 dollars is the equivalent of $558.22 in 2016 dollars (don't know where the other $15 came from)
TheThingNoNotThatOne
I think he's just pointing out that $40 back then would be a decent part of your monthly salary today.
jaxter86
Lol. This. Just this.
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Applefaces
There's nothing to suggest that. He's supplied an interesting bit of information imo
TheThingNoNotThatOne
But a good idea of inflation
JohannVonTittySprinkles
Lol. Yeah, I don't even know why I bother
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
I just googled it
SilentBlackMist
Re read above statement.
SilentBlackMist
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=SzshWNa4BcvPjwS4xqygDA&q=original+coca+cola+stock+value+today&oq=original+coca+co
SteveCoville
Power of compound interest rates.. 10 million is an reasonable accruement..
jaxter86
a reasonable.
TheRealScotchie
Apparently I'm a sleepless elite...
iCop
I too am a member of this club....
IupvoteWeedstuff
Same
freeupdoots
Congratulations
circlebreaker
Damnation... I'm the exact opposite... >:/
Test0004
Same
Daggaroth
Likewise! though I do tend to hibernate for 10 - 12 hours on the weekends... does that still count?
TheRealScotchie
Even on the weekends when I get to "sleep in" I can't go more than about 8 hours. And I've gotta be really tired.
HeironymousLex
Powderhunter75
Hell yeah! It's either that or poor, over worked father of 6 that has zero time to himself!
justlurkingmovealong
I think I'm a sleepless inferior
TanzaniteStar
about 6 hours seems fine to me.
Foxyfox135
me_irl
ReallyBadAtImgur
I'm a sleepful inferior. I sleep too much and still suck.
AmazinglyCoolNameHere
I'm jealous, I wish I could sleep that little regularly and then have all that time during the day
Superchief86
Me too. I accept this title with pride.
greatwhite67
I'm another one but mentally it took some getting used to at first! Still consider myself an insomniac
Textuality
Same here. I generally get about 5-6 hours of sleep a night, and I function fine.
NiceLegsDaisyDukesMakesAMAAANOUTOFYOOOUUUU
Me too! Eeeeyyyyy~
JustACommentFarmer
I'm pretty sure that fact is bullshit. It just doesn't sound right, way too many people sleep that much and function properly.
Affray
3% of the world population is 216 million people. Not so tiny when you consider there are just north of 300 million people in the US alone
WhenYouMissoutOntheCoolUsernames
Me too!
JaneCalamityJane
I get less than 3 and often none. It only started about 10 years ago, after I turned 30. I'm never tired, either. Just bored from 11-7.
TheRealScotchie
Brutal
RetardedLobster
Found the top 1% of 1% elites
DarkUranium
TheBalto
With so much free time you can certainly try some productive things.
Garouleloup
like browing Imgur!
mynamesbryson
I function way better after 4-6 hours than I do 8 or 9.
Test0004
Me too. If I get more than 8 hours of sleep, I can barely get up in the morning.
ifound5dollars
I get a migraine if I sleep less than 8 hours or more than 12. 4-6 is a nightmare.
Frisbeetime420
Me too! I thought i was crazy
nero4ty2
so are most parents of kids 1-4 years old
TheRealScotchie
Not a parent here.
nero4ty2
just saying you're not alone and that the statistic is most likely false
TheRealScotchie
Yup. Probably.
GeneralBullshit
#2 as someone with a slight tinitus, no.
StoicJ
That room was beat recently anyway at -20 or something by Microsoft. It's deafeningly quiet.
Flyndaran
Bro-fist. I was born with tinnitus. At the high end of my hearing. As my hearing range goes down with age so does the damn ringing. WTF?
GeneralBullshit
Really? What kind of noice do you hear? If you can describe it
WoopDeFrickenDoo
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
GeneralBullshit
I'm not sure what I was expecting...
WoopDeFrickenDoo
I heard that in India they call it the "voice of God" :) So tin ears have that going for us.
GeneralBullshit
I would pay a noteworthy sum of money to get the little god in my ears to shut the fuck up. Luckily (or unfortunately), I'd say mine is weak
mobial
Barcodes are made of white and black bundles of stripes -- #6 is just stupid and misleading.
skwint
No no it's a conspiracy - you can remove the black bits and it still works! It's just to prevent people making their own!
modelrockettier
Strictly speaking, they don't read the white or the black, they read the contrast. E.g. a light yellow and dark blue barcode would read fine
modelrockettier
Source: used to work at a company that made barcode scanners
bepadapbadabop
I think their idea is that a scanner reads the reflection back and since black absorbes it then it van only read the white. Still uses black
mobial
ಠ_ಠ — OK
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Flyndaran
Interesting idea. Do our eyes see black, or merely define it in relation to all the other lights we see around it?
IaMtAcOcAtMaI
Cupcake dispensing ATMs in Houston Texas also, boiiiii
LadyMidnightToker
Dallas, TX as well!
cupcake13
And Nashville.
sodaklegend
And chicago
PanTroglo
And Las Vegas, and coming to Austin.
twfeline
Used to have a cupcake vending machine at work that had damn fine cupcakes. Miss it.
JackaLackaDingDong
The guy who grew his own chicken sandwich...did he start with a chicken or an egg?
waterbottlewhale
shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up AHHHHHH
zeemode
I read that whole article as "man had tiny farm, makes a fucking sandwich ... who cares"
yoshimasta
That, detective, is the right question.
itgotupanditdancedaway
Dude.
solojuan
Surely the cockerel came first?
dronir
It's a Youtube series, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLXfVEsLI-qSO5XzEa0pOJyXlNVZJBupK
BozoThePie
If you wish to make an chicken sandwich from scratch you must first invent the universe.
dereks
This made my morning! Thanks!
TheyHunger
Damn. I'll have to sharpen my knife.
itxtalone
He went to a chicken farm and I assume bought a lice chicken from them
MozEmpire
What is a "lice chicken?"
itxtalone
live*
Branmaster4
These are the questions that matter.
contemplativeobserver
Probably started with some dinosaurs. Then just went from there.
iamOzymandiasLookOnMyWorksDumbassAndDespair
Obviously eggs have been around for millions of years before chickens. It's not even close.
Locolarue
The real bitch was starting months and months ahead to grow his own wheat for the bun. Oh and mayo. IIRC that was also a pain.
emparier
Prison spread?
WillCorrectInaccuraciesForFood
He had mayo? Did he distill his own vinegar? Press corn or olives for oil?
dracuella
Mayo is basically just eggs and fat and butter is a great substitute (requires a cow, though) and vinegar is easy from fermented apples :)
dronir
He built a press and pressed oil from sunflowers and mixed it with an egg yolk.
WillCorrectInaccuraciesForFood
Neat
FestiveLoveSock
I wonder if he decided to go with cheese on his sandwich.
Exousa
he did. his youtube channel is How To Make Everything.
AlternateRealityJesus
Sigh.....Time to look up ilona staller now..
Biggz71
.
Abomb2933andstuff
.
Hoop66
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNWu7Ejm_TM
Fancyrobot101
Same
Azagol
Doht
CleverUsernameNotTaken
bruh.
OinkOinkalot
Sounds like lone stalker
lapmore
but she's 60....
LizLemmon
She is too. http://www.eonline.com/news/711500/christie-brinkley-61-looks-half-her-age-without-any-makeup-on
melotprieks
She wasn't 30 years ago. And age is just a number
101stLegion
"I've had older."
ScQ85
I can see why sadam turned her down
AlternateRealityJesus
Yea not the best face. Nice body though
Fingding
Let me know if it's worth checking into
dephress
I found her Wikipedia page interesting reading, she was pretty human rights oriented.
AlternateRealityJesus
Some nice retro stuff. Props to anyone who can find digital stuff, it's all probably buried in film.
GngrbrdMan
Meh...if you have seen porn, you'll know what to expect.
hernibs
Jeff Koons' ex-wife, which may or may not influence your arousal, I mean, opinion of her...
OverpricedCrayon
In that case I've seen everything there is to see of her...and him :(
TheGhostofLouReed
You'll want to search for "Cicciolina."
thisismyworkphone
@thirdpartypreached
niijuunii
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jabreakitJubawdit
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CorvusSolus
oh
Sgtsnowbal
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dulciusexasperis
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BurritoTBaggins
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MandalorianMerc13
Zippity do dot zippity day
irishpopeye
.
itsRomulus
.
wetfart92
the fuck, isn't she Hungarian? I'm so confused. I remember seeing her in Hungarian TV talkshows.
PepsiIsBetterThanCocaCola
Fuck it, dot.
figmeant
.
SeniorAwesomepants
Sigh* ...
Iwantb00bs
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Phaggotboy
.
Ivebeenhavingtheseweirdthoughtslately
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PieIsDelicious313
. Must research later
daJukeCity
.. Research
kaashaa
I'm working on my thesis, any tips?
mypotatohas47assholes
Just one.
ARandomHelljumper
.
TenrouIsland
Thank
whysenpai
You
holydiver1337
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idontevenskate
Ah but of course.
Ximien
.
FlyingBananaHammock7
Praise ye
MemeStealingSkeleton
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Regarding your username, what's your view on poo flaps?
MemeStealingSkeleton
They are a bag of deplorables
ihatewarmpickles
TheMaleStretch
What're we all dooting about here?
renegadesurvivor
I hate myself
SkyrimForTheDragons
It's okay. I hate you too
thirddamacount
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ILiekTurdles
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Thegreatoot
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GREATEASYPIES
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cobyjack
Mhmm
Ishouldprobsblystoptalkingnow
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PenisCork
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BILLBILLBILLBILLBILLBILLBILLBILLBILLBILL
Autodots, roll out!
dfspence
R
Jantwan
dot dot dot, ditto dot
donkeymoney
Ahem... "." *COUGH COUGH*
LuchadorTonkas
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PraiseDickbuttLordAndSaviorOfUsersub
.
Enoan
The last one, via microwave lasers we have been able to wirelessly transmit power for years, the problem is when something gets in the way.
hstein3
I recall hearing something about using radio waves to vibrate crystals that would produce electricity. Might have been BS, though.
coffeeismyfriend
Why do two of the commenters on this have Hitler in their usernames?! Coincidence… OR NAZI PLOT?!
mrgooglegeek
Out of curiosity, how is power transmitted in the case of NFC or RFID?
Cellestia
I think he was talking about doing Nikola Tesla style.
golanthanatos
and they're concerned about wind turbines killing bird now....
Patzer
10 kW is power, not energy :(
TheStealthHippopotamus
On the plus side the object doesn't block the flow for long
Noevilgifs
Also there's the problem of if something can withstand the large amount of energy that's basically a sustained EMP
Ryebread91
And the massive loss of energy while doing it. Would take an enormous amount of energy just to send enough to power a light bulb.
Promethianfire
I know how these things go. I've played SimCity
AutoFox
Gerard O'Neill proposed a scheme like this back in 1974; unfortunately it required a 15 square kilometer solar power satellite to work.
isaidsomethingcool
Re: last one - Dunno if it's the same company, but Wi-tricity is working in the same thing.
battlepants
Reminds me of a story that I heard from my networking professor about Environmental impact assessment. There was a company that opened a (1)
battlepants
secondary building across the highway and were looking on ways to transmit data between the two buildings. They settled on a wireless (2)
battlepants
technology (IR, I believe) and it worked great... until the annual migration of the geese. Partially baked geese falling on the highway. (3)
RedIronCrown
"Microwave laser" is a misnomer. "Maser" is the term you're looking for, and they're older than lasers. Yes, I am fun at parties.
HitlersArtCritic
Imagine a plane suddenly frying hundreds of people because it accidentally flew over a power station transmitting said microwaves.
Enoan
The metal of the plane would block it, potentially damaging the landing gear.
HitlersArtCritic
Well, I'm thinking the thousands of watts of power from the solar panels orbiting earth would mean increased frying power.
Bystandr
It would fry the inside of the plane , too. Think of putting a foil box with food inside. The spark show cooks it still. So too, the plane.
MerToo
well hang on we're talking about a beam that the aircraft would only intersect for a split second, so iono if much would happen
Enoan
Also, I like how both people who replied to me are named in reference to Hitler
Germankipp
Who's Hitler? I didn't see those comments
Medicdroid20
It's ok. With this comment your world has become 1/3 not Hitler.
R2d2US
#Maths
FirstThingThatCameToMind
I need you to be perfectly honest with me, for my safety and yours. Are you Poland?
Enoan
Belgium, so a bit better.
LizardEnterprises
Also air diffracts it, the same way it does with visible light, so even a tight beam at the source would require kilometers of receivers...
borgmaster
Well if its from orbit I imagine the only thing in danger is planes who dont check their flight plans.
losboccacc
A cloud or heat wave could diffract it to a much wider area
cleetdog101
I'd think the biggest problem is how would the electric company properly bill/rape/over charge me? Harder to monitor kW used id think?
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cleetdog101
So like a wireless tower for a neighborhood - hardlined to a power source. Kinda like with internet/modem/wireless router.
SirWinstonTwoMonocles
Didn't Tesla claim to have transmitted power wirelessly and harmlessly?
Bystandr
That was different. Tesla used a diffuse field , whereas the microwave laser is concentrating the power into a beam.
ebap
Harmonics. There is a theory that one can harness the earths naturally occurring static discharge at various frequencies and send them thru
ebap
2/2 the earth via transmitters and receivers. Tesla never went crazy. He just got royally screwed in life for giving the world AC while dumb
ebap
Shit Edison was a stupid hack
VictusVonGuyver
Edison wasn't stupid, Edison simply cheated by paying off the patent officer to see others registered patents and steal them.
TheBasementLoli
Even if it did, it was too ahead for it's time and ignored, most likely kept secret to be monetized when perfected. Fuckin Edison.
IsignedUpWithGmailButDontWantToUseMyName
He did, but it was loud and didn't reach far
scabab
Bullshit. Omnidirectional wirelessly transmitted power obeys the r^2 law. Either you beam it in a microwave, or it dissipates exponentially.
GentlemenFreakFlagsFree
For a closed system tho
1metalnation
But omnidirectional power transmission does work, it's just wildly inefficient. No one said the scale on which is did it, but EMF works
scabab
well yeah, by bullshit i didnt mean impossible to attempt, i meant impossible to make any practical use of
whitewolf2759
Dat Gaussian beam though.
justanotherimgurianbidenhistime
The standing wave theory.
Flyndaran
He claimed a few nonsensical things. He was mentally ill. Genius but wandered over to nut-bar land quite a few times before the end.
donkeymoney
Batteries.
SirWinstonTwoMonocles
Heh. No. Like he was building a massive tower that he didn't get to finish or something. By this time many people thought he had gone crazy
JohnnyTitelips
He did, yes. And he did it with a bunch of shit he found in a garbage dump at a time before televisions became common.
FirstThingThatCameToMind
yeah, I remember having microwave powerplants in sim city 2000
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Turns out, microwaves can cook things not only when contained inside a microwave oven.
WorkerLurker
Containment is shielding not to help heat your dinner.
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Well, it does also help secondarily, in that it keeps the microwaves in and thus increases the microwave power density inside
TeflonTrout
And that is why we will name the first orbital power station "IPS Randy Johnson"
Jenally
Even as a stupid fucking teenager that always bugged me in Batman begins
IATTM
They didn't want an "R" rating, so they couldn't show people's heads exploding.
FindusSomKatten
https://www.quora.com/In-Batman-Begins-why-doesnt-the-microwave-emitter-boil-anyones-blood
Enoan
Depends on the energy, but yea, microwaves are the frequency of water molecules, thus why food gets heated more than the plate
LuckyLuke193
Wrong, H2O has no resonance in that frequency range. Microwave ovens work by dielectric heating.
JonestownClassPresident
Wow. Good thing we aren't made out of water then.... wait.
GummyBearsDontHaveTeeth
Cellphones use microwaves to recieve/transmit signals, but their frequency is drastically different from microwave ovens
IsignedUpWithGmailButDontWantToUseMyName
I'm not sure "drastically" is the word I'd use there, but yes.
DarkUranium
I would when your device (say, a microwave oven) relies on a *very* specific harmonic frequency in order to do its job.
Orpheusko
lies. The plate is almost always hotter
Enoan
Next time you hear something, pick it up by the food and tell me that.
UpNorthInAFuckingIgloo
Can confirm! Chef Boyardee just deleted every fingerprint... not recommended
zigbigidorlu
My mashed potatoes are almost always more heated by stirring in the heated bowl than by the microwave itself. Ceramic conducts like an SOB.
SmokeyQuartz
I know what you meant to say, but reading that nonsense made me giggle.