Remember these threads? this one, and this one. They were fun. Let’s ask more questions to stupid to warrant an entire GQ thread.
To kick things off:
Can I microwave coins? If that’s bad, would putting them in a mug of water make it less or more of a bad idea?
It’ll make it a much better idea. With any luck, you’ll get a steam explosion and lightning! Always cool.
I just found a plutonium core in an old lost bomb while scuba diving. Can I keep it?
That would depend on where you found it, and where you want to keep it. Same jurisdictional issues apply to salvage rights. I can state with absolute authority that you will be fired if you cause a fellow worker at what used to be Ontario Hydro to drink non-irradiated heavy water.
Can I bill telemarketers for the time they spend calling me?
What the hell is going on when you swallow “incorrectly” and get a pain in your throat/chest for a dozen or so seconds? This happens to me every few weeks or months. It is like I have strained an internal muscle or swallowed a huge bubble or air. Does this have a name? What is actually going on?
Do astronauts change their clocks when they move over different time zones in space?
And does the IRS discount their taxes due to the relativistic effect that has them aged less than the rest of us when they return?
If your a U.S. citizen, could you do something to be kicked out of the country? Like exile? Or would they just throw you in prison/execute you?
Yes. They will, in turn, have their accountants bill you for time spent on the bill.
From the coffee pot.
Assuming you’re a basically healthy person with no significant medical issues. You have access to good nutrition, medical supervision and electrolyte supplements as needed. Short of rupturing the stomach by wrapping your lips around a firehose nozzle, is it even possible to consume too much water? What are the effects of excess water intake?
If you hold your breath long enough to die, what is that?
By adding “medical supervision” you’ve negated the question; of course, no doctor or nurse is going to watch you kill yourself via water intoxification. But such a death is indeed possible under less supervised circumstances.
Why is it that you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
I don’t think there is any significant hazard to microwaving coins with or without water. I suppose you could get some arcing if they were stacked funny. I’d guess that your safer in water, but I’m not certain.
Microwaving metal will start a fire in your oven.
Are we supposed to answer the questions that might be real?
Trouble swallowing is dysphagia, if you want to start googling.
I had a strange constricted feeling like I could not swallow occasionally. It left like food was stuck about 1/3 of the way down. It became frequent enough I went to the doctor. She made me get an upper-endoscopy to rule out cancer, and then told me it was because there’s something wrong with the valve on my stomach, and the acid splashing up was causing the muscles along my esophagus to freak out. I took some heavy-duty antacids for a while and it went away.
There’s a name for what I had/have, Laryngopharyngeal reflux.
Is is possible to overdose on cough drops?
If you could do that I’d turn blue with envy.
Then why doesn’t the metal rack in my microwave spark?