Re: OT - US military unveils heat-ray gun

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:07:21 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Try picking up something over boiling temp with a wet oven mitt
sometime. You might find yourself in boiling hot towels and being
severely burned by the steam before you can peel the towels off

....Furthermore, if water is held in some semblance of suspension, the
heat will be retained to a point where some really unstable
equilibrium will be reached. This phenomenon was discovered when
people started using microwave ovens to quick-heat their morning
coffee. Everthing seemed ok until you stirred the coffee, and if
conditions were *just* right, the whole balance collapsed and the
coffee essentially exploded and you got spattered with scalding-hot
coffee. I *suspect* that the same sort of effect could be acquired
using sponges or really fluffy wet towels.

OM
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