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Discussion in 'New Roundtable' started by Bengal B, Feb 27, 2014.

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gyver Rely on yourself not on others.

On St Pattys day Catholics are to wear green. Protestants orange.

gyver, Apr 1, 2014

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gyver Rely on yourself not on others.

Bengal B said: ↑

Zui Quan is a style of Kung Fu in which the fighter imitates the movements of a drunk person.
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Made famous by Jackie Chan. Drunken boxing.

gyver, Apr 1, 2014

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Bengal B Founding Member

An electric eel can produce enough power to run a microwave

Bengal B, Apr 2, 2014

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KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

Bengal B said: ↑

An electric eel can produce enough power to run a microwave
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It would have to be a very small microwave and it could only do it for a split second.

KyleK, Apr 2, 2014

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Bengal B Founding Member

KyleK said: ↑

It would have to be a very small microwave and it could only do it for a split second.
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I wouldn't try to bake a potato but maybe you could nuke a hot dog. I don't know who might even try it unless it were some scenario like in the Tom Hanks movie Castaway where he survived on a tropical island following the crash of a FedEx plane by using the items that washed up. Maybe if a microwave washed ashore and it was in a place where you could catch electric eels.

Bengal B, Apr 2, 2014

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shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

Bengal B said: ↑

I wouldn't try to bake a potato but maybe you could nuke a hot dog. I don't know who might even try it unless it were some scenario like in the Tom Hanks movie Castaway where he survived on a tropical island following the crash of a FedEx plane by using the items that washed up. Maybe if a microwave washed ashore and it was in a place where you could catch electric eels.
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Where would you connect the lead and the ground Mr. Little known facts?

shane0911, Apr 2, 2014

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Bengal B Founding Member

shane0911 said: ↑

Where would you connect the lead and the ground Mr. Little known facts?
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Hey, I'm not an electrician. I'd have to use trained eels

Bengal B, Apr 2, 2014

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KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

Bengal B said: ↑

I wouldn't try to bake a potato but maybe you could nuke a hot dog. I don't know who might even try it unless it were some scenario like in the Tom Hanks movie Castaway where he survived on a tropical island following the crash of a FedEx plane by using the items that washed up. Maybe if a microwave washed ashore and it was in a place where you could catch electric eels.
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A small microwave uses around 500-600 watts. IF an electric eel generated A/C instead of D/C, it would be able to generate 500 watts for about 1/4 of a second. No, you couldn't cook anything with it.

KyleK, Apr 2, 2014

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Bengal B Founding Member

All I know is that I saw it in Believe it or Not. That makes it true, right?

Bengal B, Apr 2, 2014

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LSUDad Veteran Member

FYI:

It was in 1945 that the specific heating effect of a high-power microwave beam was discovered, accidentally. Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine who worked at the time for Raytheon was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a Mr. Goodbar he had in his pocket started to melt: the radar had melted his chocolate bar with microwaves. The first food to be deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.[6][7] To verify his finding, Spencer created a high density electromagnetic field by feeding microwave power from a magnetron into a metal box from which it had no way to escape. When food was placed in the box with the microwave energy, the temperature of the food rose rapidly.
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LSUDad, Apr 2, 2014

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