Exploding pot lids!!!!

Wee_rick · 9th March 2006, 05:20 PM

Ok, so i hear a popping sound from my Kitchen and i went through to see if the eggs i was cooking had maybe exploded but they were intact. Avril then opened the cupboard door to find a glass potlid shattered like a bus shelter window do if broken, Into hundreds of peices still sitting together. I aint being funny but aint they made to withstand some high degree of heat and surely a warmed up room couldn't of cause that?
Any smart people here, maybe explain it?

Edit: I felt the other glass lid in the cupboad, its the same size roughly, and that one was avaragly cold.

James_QBT · 9th March 2006, 06:57 PM

HAHAHA!!! Thats ace!!! Perhaps its aliens?!?!

Wee_rick · 10th March 2006, 01:41 AM

who fucking knows...all i know is it didn't fall and the room was normal temperture so what the fuck made it shatter?

Hecate · 10th March 2006, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Wee_rick

who fucking knows...all i know is it didn't fall and the room was normal temperture so what the fuck made it shatter?

A mouse? A very big, hard motherfucker mouse. Or a normal size mouse with a very tiny pneumatic drill? Hmmm? Perhaps? Maybe? No? Ken.

Wee_rick · 10th March 2006, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by freakonaleash

A mouse? A very big, hard motherfucker mouse. Or a normal size mouse with a very tiny pneumatic drill? Hmmm? Perhaps? Maybe? No? Ken.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to freakonaleash again.

brillaint! fuckin mad thing is i was 2 seconds away from goin in the kichten anyways so it woulda been fucked up to see happen!

DrunkWookie · 10th March 2006, 01:54 AM

Maybe it was Aliens... pesky fuckers are always coming to my house and stealing my teabags!!!

Wee_rick · 10th March 2006, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by DrunkWookie

Maybe it was Aliens... pesky fuckers are always coming to my house and stealing my teabags!!!

OI! that yer neebours your talkin about!! nae respect you!! wonder what happens if i google exploding pot lid??

hmmm...just done it there....first page...how to make herion!

http://lists.meer.net/pipermail/junk...ry/000108.html

and lets see what else...

HOMEBREWWWWW

http://homebrewhq.com/Beer/beginner_steps.aspx

Hecate · 10th March 2006, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Wee_rick

OI! that yer neebours your talkin about!! nae respect you!! wonder what happens if i google exploding pot lid??

hmmm...just done it there....first page...how to make herion!

http://lists.meer.net/pipermail/junk...ry/000108.html

and lets see what else...

HOMEBREWWWWW

http://homebrewhq.com/Beer/beginner_steps.aspx

lmao

Hecate · 10th March 2006, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DrunkWookie

Maybe it was Aliens... pesky fuckers are always coming to my house and stealing my teabags!!!

No. That's the mice too.....

but wait. What's that bright light yonder?

Ah, a mouse with a torch approaches

krashd · 12th March 2006, 04:58 AM

it could have been down to the old phenomenon of frequencies, like that old parody of when an opera singer hits the high notes all the windows and tumblers in the theatre shatter.

i just tried to work out why that happens in my head (cos i'm too lazy to google) and i thought it was down to the sound/light/radio waves causing all the molecules in the glass to move about, but all that would do is cause the glass to heat up and melt. like what microwaves do.

maybe the noise frequency thing causes molecules in certain materials to move instantaneously instead of gradually, and thus shattering objects instead of melting them. next time my steak bake goes cold i'm gonna get my mate to sing to it and just hope it doesn't explode like some kind of meat and pastry grenade.

humndislocation · 12th March 2006, 02:06 PM

Every thing has a resonant frequency, a frequency at which it'll absorb more energy, than at any other frequency. If a note is at the resonant frequency of the glass is played, loud and strong enough, then eventually the glass will absorb so much energy, that the strength of the vibration is stronger than the forces that keep the glass together.

I'm sure I heard somewhere that it's impossible for an opera singer to shatter a glass that's made of glass though, it has to be crystal.

manicidol · 13th March 2006, 11:08 PM

man that is freaky shit right there...we need to get outta this flat...full of ghosts i tell you.

James_QBT · 14th March 2006, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by humndislocation

Every thing has a resonant frequency, a frequency at which it'll absorb more energy, than at any other frequency.

Thats why you get rattles in your car that start at just over 40mph and stop at 42mph (as an example). The road's vibrating the car at it's resonant frequency.

9th March 2006, 05:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Wee_rick Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Menziehill, Dundee Posts: 1,328	Exploding pot lids!!!! Ok, so i hear a popping sound from my Kitchen and i went through to see if the eggs i was cooking had maybe exploded but they were intact. Avril then opened the cupboard door to find a glass potlid shattered like a bus shelter window do if broken, Into hundreds of peices still sitting together. I aint being funny but aint they made to withstand some high degree of heat and surely a warmed up room couldn't of cause that? Any smart people here, maybe explain it? Edit: I felt the other glass lid in the cupboad, its the same size roughly, and that one was avaragly cold. Last edited by Wee_rick : 9th March 2006 at 05:25 PM.

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9th March 2006, 06:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
James_QBT Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Dundee/Accrington Posts: 340 Band: Catharist, Leprosy	HAHAHA!!! Thats ace!!! Perhaps its aliens?!?!

10th March 2006, 01:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
Wee_rick Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Menziehill, Dundee Posts: 1,328	who fucking knows...all i know is it didn't fall and the room was normal temperture so what the fuck made it shatter?

10th March 2006, 01:54 AM	#6 (permalink)
DrunkWookie Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Under a bridge in Kirkton Posts: 296	Maybe it was Aliens... pesky fuckers are always coming to my house and stealing my teabags!!!

12th March 2006, 04:58 AM	#10 (permalink)
krashd Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kirktonia Posts: 2,064 Band: Crosby, Stills, Nash, krashd and Young	it could have been down to the old phenomenon of frequencies, like that old parody of when an opera singer hits the high notes all the windows and tumblers in the theatre shatter. i just tried to work out why that happens in my head (cos i'm too lazy to google) and i thought it was down to the sound/light/radio waves causing all the molecules in the glass to move about, but all that would do is cause the glass to heat up and melt. like what microwaves do. maybe the noise frequency thing causes molecules in certain materials to move instantaneously instead of gradually, and thus shattering objects instead of melting them. next time my steak bake goes cold i'm gonna get my mate to sing to it and just hope it doesn't explode like some kind of meat and pastry grenade.

12th March 2006, 02:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
humndislocation Hardcore is serious guys Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 6,006 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist	Every thing has a resonant frequency, a frequency at which it'll absorb more energy, than at any other frequency. If a note is at the resonant frequency of the glass is played, loud and strong enough, then eventually the glass will absorb so much energy, that the strength of the vibration is stronger than the forces that keep the glass together. I'm sure I heard somewhere that it's impossible for an opera singer to shatter a glass that's made of glass though, it has to be crystal.

13th March 2006, 11:08 PM	#12 (permalink)
manicidol Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: dundee, scotland Posts: 96 Band: Dirty Wee Middens (groupie)	man that is freaky shit right there...we need to get outta this flat...full of ghosts i tell you.