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:
- 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.
- The cold of the Mochi ice cream and the heat of the WiFi signal caused rapid expansion, shattering the plate.
- 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.
Comments
I hope you got a refund on your plate
Posted by: Jay ho at February 3, 2005 10:09 AM
Imagine what the wifi is doing to our brains.
Posted by: Embrace Idiocy at February 3, 2005 10:19 AM
Oh...my...foot! That was a pretty contrived way of getting "ghosts" and "PacMan" into a single story without appearing too obvious that you're addicted to 80's video games.
Posted by: pling at February 3, 2005 10:39 AM
no joke about the wifi - are there any microwave antennas on the roof of your building?
Posted by: Andy at February 3, 2005 11:14 AM
Interesting....if there was a flaw in the plate you'd have thought it would have already done its big bang some time when you were using it in the microwave. The cold ice/hot wifi sounds plausible, but maybe it was a sonic thing? Would extreme cold change the plate's harmonics so they reacted to the computer hum? Suppose the best way to find out would be try with other Corelle plates at differing temperatures...just don't use a dinner plate size in case the thing goes into reverse and it's your PC that fragments!
Posted by: Joe Duntane at May 22, 2005 04:16 PM
I have had 2 corelle bowls explode in the last month. They had come out of the dishwasher, were at room temp when taken out and stored as usual in the cabinet. They exploded violently for no apparent reason, leaving similar shards as those in the posted pics. No hot wi-fi, no ice cream. They had been cooled in the dishwasher for over 12 hours. Glad I wasn't standing in front of the eye-level cabinet when it happened!
Posted by: Patty Pritchett at May 31, 2005 11:23 PM
I wanted to add: the bowls exploded at least 30-60 minutes after being placed on the shelf. Each bowl had one other bowl gently stacked on top of it. Both were different styles of Corelle and exploded over a week apart. There IS a florescent light fixture below the shelf, ouside the cabinet, but puts out almost no heat. Could EMFs be zapping the bowls apart? I'm grasping at straws here! The bowls had no apparent cracks when stored.
Posted by: Patty Pritchett at June 1, 2005 09:48 PM
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