Spyke

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

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Foglereply
lemmy.ca

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

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Ænimareply
lemm.ee

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

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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.

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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

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Swedneckreply
discuss.tchncs.de

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

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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.

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Xusonthareply
ls.buckodr.ink

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

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

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

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lemm.ee

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

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sh.itjust.works

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

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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.

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

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

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