h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Does seem a bit useless. (Just like the information.)
Maybe it's only to enable people with odd talents to do stunts with their tongues.
That's done it, Zorpheus. You've caused us to think....

Sorry 'bout that Mandragora .

I would tell you why I think it is but I might get moderated (yet again) .

I thought that microwave ovens were developed to allow researchers to defrost frozen rodents (hampsters I think) which had been frozen in liquid nitrogen. They live OK apparently, but you have to defrost them from the centre outwards - hense the value of a microwave.

BTW I believe birds flying past some of the larger microwave transmitter dishes fall out of the sky ready-cooked!

mmmmm-ready cooked bluebird.

They may use microwaves for defrosting rodents but how did the figure out that microwaves would do that in the first place?

If I were the guy that had the melted candy bar, I would have been more worried about what else in that area was getting melted.

Speaking as someone who used to do research with high powered magnets (enough to make VDUs unreadable at a couple of yards) you rapidly cease to worry about it. Mind you, I didn't want any children anyway.

Now some useless information;
It is possible to stick your finger in liquid nitrogen at -100 and blah degrees C and not damage it, if you do so quickly.

Macbeth, when King of Scotland (for real) had his court in Dumbarton, on the north bank of the Clyde

There is a rumour that the Stone of Destiny, on which all the Kings and Queens of England have ben crowned since 1300ish, is actually the lid of the cistern from Scone Palace.

A rodent is not alive when being thawed. Else there would probably also be a whole lot of rich hamsters getting their bodies frozen, so they could be thawed and cured of whatever killed them.

I have also heard the chocolate bar story, but where do they actually use big microwave transmitters? My dad has told me they in the army had a projector that was so powerful, any birds flying in front of it started to snap crackle and pop.

Most satellite communication is by u-wave I think.

It is fun to watch things spin in the microwave

two words on microwaves: exploding sausage.

exploding marshmallows are much more fun then exploding sausages
The marshmallows inflate to enormouse sizes before exploding and being the professor of inflatology, I find this quite ammusing however useless exploding marshmallows may be

YES! i completely agree, i had forgotten about that.... then again, what about lighting your marshmellows on fire to get that *perfect roast*?

Yes that is good but only if you are just planning to eat your marshmallows. If you want to watch them inflate, you must put them in the microwave because lighting them on fire doesn't inflate them nearly as well as the microwave and they don't even explode when you just light them on fire. However, I would say that marshmallows that have been lit on fire for the perfect roast deffinately taste better then marshmallows that have been inflated and exploded in the microwave

I believe it was an Army scientist working on better radar that was using the big microwave transmitters.

BTW... ya ever stick an egg in the microwave? BOOM, splatter, yuck.

Yuck I hate eggs

Well, don´t you think you will enjoy watching them explode then?

Not if they make my microwave all eggy

If I watch them explode in somebody elses microwave, then it would be a completely different story

You have a point there Phreako. It would be a lot more fun in someone elses microwave - if you get a chance try it with a full dozen.

It would be even better to try it in somebody elses microwave with a bakers dozen

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

There are more chickens than people in the world.


Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.