What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?
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I merely stated basic facts of how microwaves work. It is only your own shortcomings and assumptions that leave you confused.
But you're incorrect. Microwaves penetrate through many substances fairly well, mostly passing through them. The microwave ovens we use to cook are tuned to resonate with water molecules, and as a result the waves interact more frequently with those molecules. But in general, the waves just bounce around until they do interact with something, and it could be any particle within your hot pocket that it interacts with, not just the surface.
All that is to say, microwaves do heat all throughout whatever you put in. Now, these waves can also excite particles and moisture in the air within the oven, and there is convection between the air and your hot pocket... But air is less dense than food, so convection will be secondary heating at best, and cooling at worst.
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The chainsaw was first used to saw bone, not trees. This was before anesthesia.
The band saw was also created to cut through meat and bone.
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
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-- Hiram Maxim, probably
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But you're incorrect. Microwaves penetrate through many substances fairly well, mostly passing through them. The microwave ovens we use to cook are tuned to resonate with water molecules, and as a result the waves interact more frequently with those molecules. But in general, the waves just bounce around until they do interact with something, and it could be any particle within your hot pocket that it interacts with, not just the surface.
All that is to say, microwaves do heat all throughout whatever you put in. Now, these waves can also excite particles and moisture in the air within the oven, and there is convection between the air and your hot pocket... But air is less dense than food, so convection will be secondary heating at best, and cooling at worst.
Yeah. They don't penetrate an unlimited distance into the food, the center of some stuff won't get heated. But they penetrate a lot further than the 0 distance that ambient heat from the outside does, conducting heat straight to the skin of the food and then letting it work its way in from there.
No idea what this person's issue is, I sort of suspect that it's just Lemmy in action, doing its thing.
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Makes me wonder why whale puke still gets used in cosmetics...
The synthetics are usually inferior to natural products if you're going high-end. There's probably thousands of individual compounds in ambergris. Similarly, I'm guessing if you go for really bougie raspberry flavouring it's more likely to use castoreum.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Not really a secret, but we don't often think about it.
Cash is fucking dirty. Here is the official Fedral Reserve estimated lifespan for each note:
Denomination Estimated Lifespan* $1 7.2 years $5 5.8 years $10 5.7 years $20 11.1 years $50 14.9 years $100 24.0 years You can assume that something like a $5 bill might change hands on a weekly basis.
So if you a $5 bill that still looks nice, it might be only 2 years old, so it might have seen about 100 owners up until now. It is said that 1 out of 5 people don't wash hands after pooping.
Your $5 bill is probably filled with poop, pee, sweat, food, cum, dirt, etc.
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I too dream of the sunbeam radiant toaster.
Ever since I saw Adam Savage showing one off I have craved the majesty with maybe one or two extra safety measures modded in.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
wrote last edited by [email protected]How pineapples grow amazes me. Ofc if you're from a place where pineapples grow, it probably sounds dumb, but I learnt that late in my life. Look:
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Not really a secret, but we don't often think about it.
Cash is fucking dirty. Here is the official Fedral Reserve estimated lifespan for each note:
Denomination Estimated Lifespan* $1 7.2 years $5 5.8 years $10 5.7 years $20 11.1 years $50 14.9 years $100 24.0 years You can assume that something like a $5 bill might change hands on a weekly basis.
So if you a $5 bill that still looks nice, it might be only 2 years old, so it might have seen about 100 owners up until now. It is said that 1 out of 5 people don't wash hands after pooping.
Your $5 bill is probably filled with poop, pee, sweat, food, cum, dirt, etc.
Man, cash don't have owners. Only spenders.
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The synthetics are usually inferior to natural products if you're going high-end. There's probably thousands of individual compounds in ambergris. Similarly, I'm guessing if you go for really bougie raspberry flavouring it's more likely to use castoreum.
I guess that I would have thought that you could isolate those individual compounds, and then reproduce them, rather than hoping that you can find a lucky ball of whale puke.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure I'm not their target audience.
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Not really a secret, but we don't often think about it.
Cash is fucking dirty. Here is the official Fedral Reserve estimated lifespan for each note:
Denomination Estimated Lifespan* $1 7.2 years $5 5.8 years $10 5.7 years $20 11.1 years $50 14.9 years $100 24.0 years You can assume that something like a $5 bill might change hands on a weekly basis.
So if you a $5 bill that still looks nice, it might be only 2 years old, so it might have seen about 100 owners up until now. It is said that 1 out of 5 people don't wash hands after pooping.
Your $5 bill is probably filled with poop, pee, sweat, food, cum, dirt, etc.
Cocaine. Lots of cocaine.
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I guess that I would have thought that you could isolate those individual compounds, and then reproduce them, rather than hoping that you can find a lucky ball of whale puke.
I dunno, I'm pretty sure I'm not their target audience.
In theory you could, although I'd guess it'd be an incredible amount of work, and might cost more in the end. Most attempts at replicating natural flavours and scents have historically been unconvincing, although some of the recent stuff has been incredible.
I wonder if there's any food scientists on Lemmy.
