this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to shitpost, not to post facts, my b'y

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

your intent apparently warranted

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure sounds like it. What kinda microwave fits in another microwave? Why would it explode? Snd the picture doesn't fit.

[–] snowraven 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone above mentioned that magnetron bombarded by another magnetron can cause a feedback loop thus causing the explosion. I am not exactly sure if that is scientifically correct but that could be one explanation for the explosion.

But yeah the rest of the story is probably just a meme story.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They also mentioned 1998 and Hell In A Cell. I'm thinking they were full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Can't believe this shit still works in 2023.

[–] snowraven 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, It's hard to seperate science from meme these days you know. Back in my day, people wouldn't make such jokes but oh Wait I am still 23. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The meme has been around since you were 17.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's all BS and I tried to Google that shit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love spreading Misinformation online

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well there is no other kind right?

[–] TopRamenBinLaden 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Poor guy learned the hard way.

Microwaves are not to be fucked with. Microwaves are produced inside the oven by an electron tube called a magnetron. The microwaves are then reflected within the metal interior of the oven where they are absorbed by food.

When a magnetron bombards another magnetron with microwaves it produces a feedback loop that can result in an explosion. This phenomenon was first recorded in 1998, the same year that The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] ElBarto 23 points 10 months ago

The second I read 1998 I was like, there's no fucking way and then bam!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey you’re a big phoney! You’re not the real hell in a cell guy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

u/shittymorph gone but not dead. Just still on Reddit presumably

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Mom, I want shittymorph!

No, we have shittymorph at home already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden 1 points 10 months ago

You don't know who you are talking to pig.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When you try to put a bag of holding into another bag of holding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can't be reopened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Or search google on google

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Their sacrifice will not be forgotten

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wait... That can happen? I gotta rethink my weekend plans...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The explosion destroyed both microwaves and created a portal to the astral plane.

Joke aside, the magtrometer can easily explode.

Jokes aside, the magnetron is just a vacuum tube surrounded by a big heatsink. It could implode but the vacuum volume is tiny and the metal inside and outside will prevent glass from flying everywhere, unlike a B/W CRT. There is also a transformer, HV capacitor, fan, a tray motor, a mechanical or electronic timer, lightbulb, high voltage diode and fuse, bimetallic contactors (thermal fuses), safety switches, interference filter and smooth start circuitry. None of this can really explode but will get hot in presence of microwaves, burning plastic and other materials, producing caustic smoke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

magtrometer

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No, thst will not happen

[–] Reverendender 5 points 10 months ago

That rascally Florida Man. Up to his usual hijinks.

[–] Aurenkin 3 points 10 months ago

Agent: This is very important, did this man come into the store earlier today? Shows photograph

Clerk: Yes he was here this morning, seemed a bit strange but not dangerous or anything. Why?

Agent: We suspect he's planning some kind of attack. What did he buy?

Clerk: Nothing dangerous, just two microwaves. One was our largest model, the other our smallest.

Agent: My god...

[–] avocado 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://youtube.com/@MicrowaveArchive

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

THE MASKS! THEY DO NOTHING!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not gonna lie, this is something I'd probably try if I had the means to do it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So he bought a microwave to microwave a microwave.