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Date: Jan 8, 2006
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Brainiac is a great show on TV in which the British(sweet) conduct science experiments that you may ior may may not want to do.


I figured this would be a good place to put this, and after a few posts, I think you may agree.


One of the things done on this show is tryiong to break a black box flight recorder.  If you do not know what one is, the click.  What this article does not tell you is of its' extreme durability.  I mean, this thing is TOUGH!


200 Civil War musket bullets and 2 cannon balls (fired, of course) merely dented it.


A large does of napalm just gave it a slight tan.


You get the idea.



-- Edited by Babblefish at 22:19, 2006-01-08

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High Keeper of the Sacred Texts

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Another excellent experiment is how certain things react to being microwaved.


As in the show, I feel that I should tel  you not to do this, especially if you value your microwave, limbs, fruit, music and house.


By far the most interesting was a grape that had been slit in half.  You all know the stages of matter; solid, liquid and gas, and one you may not know of, plasma.


The experiment proceed in this order: the grape quickly went through the first 3 stages.  Shortly there after, there wasw what apeared to be a deep, yet bright orange flame, or plasma.


This is very cool, as it is usally difficult to get such a reaction out of normal objects such as these.



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