You know how they depict microwaving a baby, or any living creature, in movies and stuff, and those poor things always end up exploding?
According to this article, creatures do explode if microwaved.
But it doesn’t go into how explosions happen.
Can anybody explain how it’d work?
Steam buildup? Methane ignition?
Also, would a creature die before exploding? What would the cause of death be?
Read again. The article states that people say that, not that it actually happens. The one baby Cecil mentions dying in a microwave, died of acute thermal burns. No mention of the baby “blowing up”.
They explode because it looks real cool on film. No further explanation is needed.
Mea culpa. I couldn’t get the link in the OP to work before and didn’t look at the URL.
But I think DrFidelius has it. Microwaves boil water and will turn at least some of the molecules to steam. For an animal to explode you have to assume that so much steam is created - and in the fashion of an egg, without any possible escape possibilities - that enough pressure will build so that the entire animal will explode. I don’t think it will.
At least not all at once.:eek:
Putting a baby in the microwave is horribly dangerous, even if it’s just as a joke.
To be safe, you should always poke it with a fork beforehand.