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Slow-Mo Video: This Is What Happens When You Microwave a Light Bulb and a Watermelon

Who wouldn’t want to watch a slow-mo video of what happens to things like a light bulb, bar of soap, lime when you microwave them for a long enough time period? The answer: everybody.

Moes Southwest Grill Ad Shows Microwave Explosions in Slow Mo

Believe it or not, this is what happens when you microwave a champagne bottle.

This is probably what the marketing team from Moe’s Southwest Grill — a fast-food Tex-Mex chain — thought when coming up with their new ad.

Released just this week on YouTube, the video already has more than 70,000 views. Check out all the slow-mo glory:

[H/T Gizmodo]

Comments (76)

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  • Blazesurfer
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:03pm

    How about a microwave in a microwave!!!!

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    • sndrman
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:13pm

      kinda like what you said i have always wanted to get a tattoo of my arm on my arm but no one will do it. microwave inside a microwave.

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    • Steverino
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:18pm

      “I’d like to get a whole body tattoo of myself, only taller.”
      Steven Wright

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    • db321
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:31pm

      Now who is going to clean up this mess?

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:45am

      .
      How come that microwave is cleaner than mine
      and I don’t do any of that stuff?

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 4:43pm

      Nice! The watermelon looks like my head exploding every time that gas bag Obama gives a SOTU speech…or really any speech for that matter.

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  • schroeder123
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:45pm

    Now this is Good Sh@@t …. Love the action. and always wondered….

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:56pm

      I can’t decide which story is more important breaking news. This one or the one about the person losing a shoe in a scuffle. lol

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    • scruffycat
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 4:28am

      I think if you watch the aluminum foil being microwaved, right at :34 you can see a small blue glowing ball come up off of the arcing foil. Possibly a small little bit of Ball Lightning produced right there due to the arcing. Hard to say due to the super slo mo, but maybe. I’ve seen that type of thing before when carbon points powered by banks and banks of wet cells are brought together. cool.

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  • ACACIA
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:30pm

    i‘ll bet if they tried that with BO bama’s head nothning would happen; because there is nothning inside there.

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  • Jackie Rogers, Jr.
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:23pm

    Worked with a guy who spent 20 years in the airforce. I don’t know if he was yanking my chain, but here’s a short simple version of a story he told me.
    Maitenance crew turns off the radar and climbs up in the dome to service it. Another guy doesn’t get the memo, turns the radar on, maitenance crew goes pop.

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    • ohiowordguy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:28pm

      A carpenter who worked on our home told me a similar story of something like that happening when he was in the military. Not sure if it was radar or really strong radio waves, but the result was similar.

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  • boltach
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:09pm

    what a waste of a good beer.

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  • MittensKittens
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:53pm

    I was hoping for a cockroach, frog, hamster…you know something fun!

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  • willbedone
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:50pm

    Is that last one a micro-brew?

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  • billrow
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:50pm

    You can pick up a decent new condition microwave at any pawnshop for under 20 bucks. I would only do these experiments in the back yard using a long extension cord.

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  • DesdemonasCrew
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:49pm

    Cool. Loved it. Music made it even cooler. Great way to advertise.

    Slow news day? Who cares! It is called entertainment, always a nice interlude amidst the “head exploding” stories. Why waste time telling everyone that you actually took the energy to reply to a story you don’t care about?

    How many more clowns will post “slow news day” or “I don’t care”?

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:47pm

    **Where’s the story on Obama IGNORING A SUBPOENA to appear in court today? For a blow by blow accounting of the Georgia hearing held today regarding Obama’s eligibility to be on the Georgia ballot go here. http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/?p=4138 Also, this story from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/no-ruling-in-birther-1318374.html**

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  • MOLLYPITCHER
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:45pm

    Microwaves do ruin everything, including your health, even if you’re not eating tv dinners. Why the hell would you want to heat your food with radiation?

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    • suffolkva
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:48pm

      What do you think you’re heating it with in an oven genius? Infra red (oven heat) is radiation as sure as microwaves are. Only the frequency is different. Microwaves are not radioactive. They simply get the atoms real excited.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:50pm

      The colloquial “nuke it” for heating in microwave is not literal. The “nuked” food won’t become glowing green in dark. It is quite excited (though rarely exciting).

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    • grannyrecipe
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:56am

      Microwave ovens use microwave (tiny wavelength) radio frequency bounced back and forth very quickly that produces friction inside the object you are cooking thus heating it. Things cooked in a microwave are heated from the middle-outward because the clash of microwaves occurs in the center of the oven. 35 years of being time tested (and mother approved) has made microwave ovens a safe alternative to cooking over campfires (NOT mother approved)

      So go ahead, don’t be afraid. Heat yourself up a big bowl of chili with onions and cheddar cheese and see for yourself today!

      LOL

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  • smalls
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:44pm

    Wow if they only had you tube when I was in middle school! Did all of this 22 years ago! Toilet paper is pretty neat to.

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:40pm

    Where’s the story on Obama IGNORING A SUBPOENA to appear in court today? For a blow by blow accounting of the Georgia hearing held today regarding Obama’s eligibility to be on the Georgia ballot go here. http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/?p=4138 Also, this story from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/no-ruling-in-birther-1318374.html

    Report Post » kspatriot  
    • khoregon
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:08pm

      THANK you, KSPATRIOT. It had to be asked. It’s kinduh important. Glenn gets it right on so many things. There just has to be a logical explanation as to why he won’t touch the biggest story of the century. (Shaking my head.)

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:58pm

      All politicians have diplomatic immunity during their term. After his Impeachment, he will have to show up for the subpoena.

      Report Post » ProbIemSoIver  
    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:08pm

      *Correction – Sovereign Immunity, not diplomatic.

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    • Shrugged
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:51pm

      Why is it that Glenn, Rush, Sean — the normal challengers – suddenly got very quiet on this issue a year or two ago. Suspiciously quiet . . . . when there is good reason to challenge Obama’s eligibility to be president.

      I hope we find out someday what the puppet-string pullers are doing here.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:00pm

      Good topic, alot better than the one headlined here. The posters of the Blaze should start hijacking the stories. Take stupid stories, like this one and instead of dozens of arcain comments, we interject a subject that the MSN is ignoring.

      On your topic, I think that the administration ignoring this could come back to bite him, if the media decided to do thier job and start investigating wrong doing no matter where they find it.

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    • gemmeri
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:49pm

      Beck may be waiting to see how the ruling comes out. This is not new news, it’s actually been around since Obama first campaigned, but it’s a first in the courts. Frankly, I’m appalled that our vetting process is so blatantly lacking. Clearly the man is a fraud unto himself & the American public. How will the DNC overcome this egg-on-face debacle, I wonder. A fraudulent birth certificate & Social Security number… Makes one want to puke.

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  • robstoddard
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:35pm

    I’ve microwaved a few things in my day, and I must say that the most dangerous thing I’ve ever microwaved was a glass of water. If you have a glass that’s smooth enough on the inside, you can microwave it up to temperatures far exceeding the boiling point without it boiling. Then one little disturbance, and the water will vaporize with explosive force. Very dangerous.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:46pm

      Thats cool, but do you want to see our government microwave the ionisphere to over 100 degrees fahrenheit, then claim that there is man-made Global Warming ? :

      They are correct. GLOBAL WARMING IS MAN-MADE !!!!
      THEY ARE THE MEN DOING IT !!!!!!!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG9jUz_QYU

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  • Bodragon
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:29pm

    “Who wouldn’t want to watch a slow-mo video of what happens to things like a light bulb, bar of soap, lime when you microwave them for a long enough time period? The answer: everybody.” – Which means, of course, nobody. Double negative. No? No? Yes? Yes? No?

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    • lodgerat
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:45pm

      I’ve been waiting for this story. I’ve been watching for months to see the light bulb/watermelon story. I will sleep well tonight. Heck, I may even find a metal pie plate and try to microwave it. When I microwaved a can of beer it was exciting. Must be a slow news day. :o)

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  • mermaid7
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:11pm

    I think we all wish that we could do some of these things but never did it. It was entertaining to watch and made me chuckle.

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  • mothershipto6
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:07pm

    I don‘t care if it isn’t real news, I like it. Thanks jp4joy for your comment, it made me laugh.

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  • Black Manta
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:00pm

    Slow news I rather have no news…

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:59pm

    I keep playing the video just to hear that great version of “Train 45”.
    Goooood pickin’!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • SHASTADIANE1
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:49pm

    Slow News day? lol!

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:47pm

    Slow news day huh?

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  • BubbaCoop
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:44pm

    “Who wouldn’t want to watch a slow-mo video of what happens to things like a light bulb, bar of soap, lime when you microwave them for a long enough time period? The answer: everybody.”

    Do you mean “who would”, or “nobody”?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:42pm

    Interesting – alert the Mythbusters.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:34pm

    Microwave ovens are foebidden in many countries……..they destroy all nutrition in your food.

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:46pm

      “Microwave ovens are foebidden in many countries”

      False myth. The USSR is said to have banned them for a short time, but no country today has a blanket ban on microwave ovens (I’m sure some countries likely have regulations, and smaller towns or cities might have ordinances). Also, the Soviets did so due to supposed damage to those nearby and exposed to the radiation, not for destroying nutrients in food.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 8:28pm

      Locked, it was a cover for their inability to mass produce them in a quality that would make them safe. There were no restrictions on western produced ones sold in Берёзка/Tuzex/Pewex etc., provided you had hard currency or state issued hard currencyreplacement funny money.

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  • goahead.makemyday
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:30pm

    Some of the things I wish I could do but can‘t since I can’t afford a new microwave.

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    • Zoe
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Got Popcorn?

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    • JP4JOY
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Way back when I worked with a showgirl who wanted to soften her mascara, Dyed the inside of the oven a deep rich purple.

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