I need to focus on finding sources of “conventional” amusement. I get bored and do things in my lab that I shouldn’t. I work at a lab with a number of exotic instruments and environmental testing equipment. Some things I know are behind the cut.
– Silicon wafers have poor structural integrity, and are more expensive than they look.
– It’s bad to shoot high energy ultrasound through supercooled fluids.
– Blocks of ramen do not stand up well to:
* rapid decompression
* extreme angular acceleration
* thermal cycling in moisture rich atmospheres
– Electric arcs can be passed through nearly anything.
– Water can be made to do a number of things God never intended it to.
– High wattage industrial microwave ovens will do several very amusing things that you aren’t likely to want to attempt more than once.
There are worse things one can do than abuse lab equipment, I suppose. all the same, common sense seems to break down when curiosity gets in the way. I’ve learn all these neat things in college, and I feel the need to test the “interesting” ones. If there’s no principle I want to test out, I just do whatever it seems would be fun.
-IggDawg
– Electric arcs can be passed through nearly anything.
except glass.
i know that a magnet can make a frog float in the air :0)
so when am i coming to visit your place of work?
Actually yolu can arc through glass. It’s just very hard :D. Glass will actually conduct electricity when it gets hot.
There was a guy who played with tesla coils and glass. he would arc through the glass, fusing paint with it and making neat patterns. I think it was something like a 1 million volt coil.
I’m not that messed up though. at least I hope not.
what you mean by that is that you don’t have a million volt coil….yet.
Come up with Borderlands ideas!