cook an egg with your cell phone

[DYNAGOD]

this needs to be confirmed... 
http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm

[ChadTower]

The next logical step, of course, is to get most idiotic mobile phone users to wear a phone on each hip, pointed inward, so as to cook their reproductive systems until they are sterile.

[Stingray]

Well, my cell phone just got taken out of my pocket in a hurry.

-S

[Goz]

Well, my cell phone just got taken out of my pocket in a hurry.

-S

Avoid cookin the eggs?

[Stingray]

No boiled huevos for me.

-S

[PetitMorte]

Just tested this using my hand, and a friend's cell.  nada.  nothing. zip.

Cell phones don't broadcast on the proper frquency to do that, and if they did there would be *LAWSUITS* like you wouldn't believe!

[pointdablame]

Just tested this using my hand, and a friend's cell.  nada.  nothing. zip.

Cell phones don't broadcast on the proper frquency to do that, and if they did there would be *LAWSUITS* like you wouldn't believe!

Did you expect to boil your hand in 3 minutes?   

[missioncontrol]

so your o.k. if unless you own two cell phones right???

[M3talhead]

If that article is true, this lady is screwed......

[toolaa]

this needs to be confirmed...

[Bones]

If you wear a digital wrist-watch around the base of your penile shaft, the small amount of radiation that is emitted will render you sterile for the duration of one ejaculation.

This was the myth that horny teenage boys told reluctant teenage girls right before they became unplanned teenage parents.

[ChadTower]

Gee, and we just told them that you can't get pregnant if you swallow.

[Stingray]

I always told them that you can't get pregnant on days that end in Y.

-S

[missioncontrol]

Gee, and we just told them that you can't get pregnant if you swallow.

I've used that line from time to time........

[Jabba]

How did we go from eggs to swallowing? These threads always amaze me...

Anyone try to cook an egg this way yet?

[ChadTower]

Cook an egg by swallowing it?  No.

[Harry Potter]

Great. More useless crap a mobile phone can do.

[Stingray]

Great. More useless crap a mobile phone can do.

Mine has a built in fishing rod and makes a mean Denver omelette.

-S

[ChadTower]

I don't have a cell phone.

[Sephroth57]

so anyone try this yet



and how do you not have a phone in this day and age?

[Stingray]

I didn't have a cell phone until last year. Only reason I got one was because I had a house fire. Being displaced from your home with no way to be contacted by the insurance company makes you change your mind about cell phones pretty quickly. Of course that's all over now, but like so many things, once you have it you learn to rely on it.

-S

[ChadTower]

If I'm not near a phone to which you have the number, I don't need to talk to you.

[Sephroth57]

well yeah its not like you have to give it to people you work with, just for family / friends

[ChadTower]

Yeah, I really seem like a pleasant guy to talk to on the phone, don't I?

[Sephroth57]

it seems like over the past 6-8 months your "assholeness" has been more than usual, i remember u didnt used to be so sarcastic

[ChadTower]

That's probably true.  Even when not being sarcastic/etc, I hate phone calls.  Over the course of my life, the only time anyone ever calls me is when they want something from me, which isn't much incentive to answer the phone.  So I have no reason to have a cell phone.

[Stingray]

I answer the phone if it's my wife or one of my parents. Everyone else can talk to the voice mail.

-S

[ChadTower]

Exactly.  Then later on, my wife checks the voicemail, and tells me who called and what they want.

[Stingray]

I usually just delete it when the little icon tells me that my mailbox is full.

-S

[ChadTower]

Why didn't anyone get their elective classes this year?

[Stingray]

Why didn't anyone get their elective classes this year?

I'll take the G.W. Bush standpoint. As far as I can tell, all scheduling is going as smoothly and efficiently as possible. If mistakes were made they certainly were  not mine, but I'll head up an investigation comittee and get to the bottom of it.

-S

[ChadTower]

We know the type of things you like to do to the bottom of it. 

[Stingray]

We'll let my investigation make that determination.

-S

[toolaa]

this needs to be confirmed...

[shmokes]

It's totally absurd.  For one thing, it takes twelve minutes for an egg to boil in a pot full of boiling water.  When you call someone else's cell phone, the two devices aren't sending a signal directly between the devices.  They send the signal to the tower, so as far as placement goes, most likely one of the cell phones is having almost no effect on the egg, whatsoever.

Let's say for a second that this works like a microwave oven.  Think about it.  A microwave is an enclosed space that keeps the micowaves bouncing around inside it to maximize the cooking power.  And they still use like 1200-1600 watts.  If you 2 watt cell phone transmitter, out in the open with nothing to focus and contain the radio waves, could boil an egg in 3 minutes, your Microwave would be able to cook anything oil boil a bowl of water in about 1 second.

[JB]

Let's say for a second that this works like a microwave oven.  Think about it.  A microwave is an enclosed space that keeps the micowaves bouncing around inside it to maximize the cooking power.  And they still use like 1200-1600 watts.  If you 2 watt cell phone transmitter, out in the open with nothing to focus and contain the radio waves, could boil an egg in 3 minutes, your Microwave would be able to cook anything oil boil a bowl of water in about 1 second.

And vaporize anything in line with the window...

[Bones]

It's totally absurd.  For one thing, it takes twelve minutes for an egg to boil in a pot full of boiling water.  When you call someone else's cell phone, the two devices aren't sending a signal directly between the devices.  They send the signal to the tower, so as far as placement goes, most likely one of the cell phones is having almost no effect on the egg, whatsoever.

Let's say for a second that this works like a microwave oven.  Think about it.  A microwave is an enclosed space that keeps the micowaves bouncing around inside it to maximize the cooking power.  And they still use like 1200-1600 watts.  If you 2 watt cell phone transmitter, out in the open with nothing to focus and contain the radio waves, could boil an egg in 3 minutes, your Microwave would be able to cook anything oil boil a bowl of water in about 1 second.

If ET can call his mothership with a Speak'n'Spell I am confident he could boil an egg with a mobile phone.

You must really hate being wrong all the time shmokes.

[toolaa]

And they still use like 1200-1600 watts.

[Ed_McCarron]

It's totally absurd.

Yup.

  For one thing, it takes twelve minutes for an egg to boil in a pot full of boiling water.  When you call someone else's cell phone, the two devices aren't sending a signal directly between the devices.  They send the signal to the tower, so as far as placement goes, most likely one of the cell phones is having almost no effect on the egg, whatsoever.

Most cell phone antennas are omnidirectional.  If we assume a perfect world, the radiation pattern would be a torus - looks like a donut - with the antenna going thru the donuts hole.  The majority of the radation would be going elsewhere.  Considering theres no real ground plane, they are kinda inefficient, also.

2 watt cell phone transmitter

Most cell phones today aren't even 2 watts.  The old bag phones, maybe, but the newer digital ones?  A conservative guess would put them at 50-200 mw.  That was one of the big selling points, and why the batterys are so small/last so long.  Put the towers everywhere, and you don't need a big signal to reach them.

Then theres frequency to take into account.  The magnetron in a microwave is working at 10 Ghz +, and is focused fairly tightly into a radio-reflective cavity.  Older microwaves used to go boom when you fired them up with no load inside - the mags self destructed with no place to sink their power.  Your cell phone is probably down in the 2 Ghz range.

Even if you look at pure power INPUT - the microwave in my house dims the lights in the kitchen when it fires up the mag.  My cell phone with its little 50mah battery pack couldn't even tickle the microwave.

Oh, yeah, been a licensed ham  (N3KPR) since '90, and know a bit about radios.

So, basically, I agree with shmokes.

[ChadTower]

Oh, yeah, been a licensed ham  (N3KPR) since '90

Smoked?  I love smoked ham.