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The waves make it micro (startrek.website)
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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

How to start a fire in the wilderness with only a power generator, a microwave and a coin:

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I feel like there might be a simpler way but what the hell, lock and load!

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There are simpler ways. But they're boring.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Fogle@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Thinking quickly Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only some string a squirrel and a megaphone

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

We need a TQDC community.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

This works only if you are trying to do it secretly. Go gender reveal party or go home!

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You can do a gender reveal party in the wilderness... and end up blowing up everyone in the worst way possible, all with a coin.

[-] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

In the age of receiving CDs in the mail (like AOL), we would microwave them for 10 seconds to make coasters. The arcing would make neat designs in the CD

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

fwiw i'm pretty sure you can still get CDs for pretty damn cheap, so this is totally still doable and hell might even be a little side business

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

There’s lots of discarded ones if you know where to look

[-] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

And fun to watch, too

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In the age after total disregard for personal data, and the advent of personal data regulations, we'd burn tons of backup CDs like that.

[-] Amilo1591@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 2 years ago

A coin cannot cause this much damage to a microwave in 1 minute.

[-] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago
[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 8 points 2 years ago

I think compacting any adult person into a size small enough to fit into a microwave would do that much damage in one minute

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Unless Amillo1951's ex wife was already small enough to fit in the microwave

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Keep going. I don't think you completely ruined the joke yet.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago
[-] ares35@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

at least i think they've quit microwaving their iphones

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Indeed, but I seriously doubt that damage was caused by trying to microwave a penny.

[-] bastian_5@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

Idk if anything would actually happen. There's nowhere for it to arc, so it would just bounce around

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Nothing would happen because of the coin, no. But microwaving an empty microwave can seriously damage it because there’s nothing to absorb the microwaves. You can burn out the magnetron.

A fire is possible but unlikely.

[-] Cjwii@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

If you stick the mini one in an electrical socket, it'll make it grow again

[-] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago
[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

but only if you push it in with your bare finger

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

God damn, Nigella Lawson

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Does the metal sublimate or does the mini coin have 50 times the density? Is this how black holes are made? /s

[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

None of these are quite as bad as the 4chan post telling people to make mustard gas.

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

An empty bag of chips for 6 seconds was always good fun.

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We used to do this at school and make Keychains.

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