8 Responses to “Microwave A Toothpick”

Fatman Says:
March 28th, 2006 at 3:22 am

Brainiac is a wicked TV show!!!

SkaOMatic Says:
March 28th, 2006 at 11:45 am

Nice blog, Shawn. Quite entertaining. Hopefully it will entertain us long enough for you to finish what you started.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=46172

Remove your head from the sand and look at how once loyal users feel about you now. Quite sad.

yfs1 Says:
March 29th, 2006 at 9:13 am

Who would have known it would have taken a Braniac clip (Awesome show) to visit the Optigold forum ?!?!

I wish I saw this last year, I moved out of an apartment where I could have used the microwave for this experiment

Iain Says:
March 30th, 2006 at 5:32 pm

Bit harsh comment from SkaOMatic, methinks.

The advancement of science (and toothpicks) must come first.

Tech Tower Says:
March 31st, 2006 at 7:38 am

Plasma with a Microwave

The video shows a nice way to reproduce the stuff I work with everyday using household devices. I started thinking about it as a question to hone my skills for my qualifying exams, and it turned out to be a good one. The “English dude” th…

John Says:
March 31st, 2006 at 1:32 pm

By the way, if I didn’t already imply it in my trackback post, I ran some tests at the lab and it does work…

Raane Says:
August 14th, 2006 at 8:36 pm

I haven’t tried the toothpick, but I have made microwave plasma using the grape method and it worked just fine.

http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/

mrcheese Says:
August 16th, 2006 at 3:21 am

Similar effect can be achieved using grapes. With a little practice you can make streaks of red firey / lightningy stuff fly from them.

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