This is not a normal post, but I consider this topic worthy of note.
Let me explain the strange photos below.






I purchased some nice Mochi ice cream tonight and decided to try one. It turned out to be delicious so I ate as quick as I could without suffering from brain freeze. I used a small Corelle plate to hold the Mochi ice cream ball before I finished eating it 5 minutes later. I left the room to play Xbox when I heard a loud pop, and came back to inspect.

My plate had broken a PacMan shape, with a big chunk missing. After a few minutes I could hear quiet "tinkling" noises coming from the plate, so I tapped the table to see what would happen.

The plate exploded into porcelain shrapnel.

After a few minutes, smaller pieces started breaking apart under their own mysterious destructive forces.


That is a WiFi adapter.

I have several hypothesis:

  1. It was a ghost envious of my delicious Mochi ice cream ball, and it tried to lick the plate, but that destabalized the plate's molecular fabric.
  2. The cold of the Mochi ice cream and the heat of the WiFi signal caused rapid expansion, shattering the plate.
  3. I may have found a new source of energy, so I'm currently trying to reach the world's foremost porcelain physicist to analyze my sample.

If you have your own ideas, post them below.

Mysterious Exploding Corelle Plate
Posted on February 03, 2005

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