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atara may never let me near the microwave oven again after she sees this.

It's inappropriate fun with microwave ovens!

No household pets were harmed in the creating of this site.

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An addendum to my post from earlier today:

I don't think the link I posted has links back to these movies - which is a shame, really. Besides making them race around in the microwave, you can generate plasma pulses from grapes.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/topanatomyedited.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/grapeout.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/15burstedited2.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/topburstedited.mov

All courtesy of this site (which is also kind enough to include instructions on how to replicate the experiment).

http://home.earthlink.net/~marutgers/fun/microwave/microwave.html