Scientific sensation or a YouTube hoax? The mobile phones that 'cook' popcorn

The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11th June 2008 | David Wilkes

[fanfan]

Video at link.....

[11th Commandment]

I believe this is true. I tested it, but the kernels did not pop. Since I believe the theory to be true, my false positive can only be explained by the fact I did not have the right cell phone combination. I will keep trying until those kernels pop, followed by different types of Kernels.

[Hegemony Cricket]

hoax

[Codeflier]

Hoax:

See the following link (not in html) includes egg and popcorn:

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

[weegee]

When Snopes confesses that man made global warming is also a hoax I will turn to them for “scientific” information, otherwise I will turn my nose up at the leftist propagandists that run that site and defend to the end their beloved Clintons.

[Red_Devil 232]

We have the answer to GoreBull Warming! It is all the damn cell phones!

[fanfan]

Good.

So all that burning I feel in my cheek when I talk on my cell phone is psychosomatic?

Phew.

[fanfan]

Please be sure to ping me when you find it.

Thanks. ;-)

[Old Sarge]

Happy am I to see someone ELSE who recognizes that Snopes is a Leftist site run by Clinton apologists that doesn’t deserve the Web hits they so desperately need.

[RFEngineer]

Hoax, of course. People are stupid enough to believe anything.....

The GOP is pushing McCain on conservatives using the same principle.

[kalee]

corn popping cellphone ping

[Zuben Elgenubi]

They should put that infamous microwave poodle on the table and repeat the experiment.

[fanfan]

They should put that infamous microwave poodle on the table and repeat the experiment.

They would need more cell phones.

[dawn53]

All the videos were also posted at around the same time, so it’s not a matter of one group seeing it and saying, “Oh let’s try that.” I think this ads to the likelihood that it’s a hoax.

[martin_fierro]

[fanfan]

See?

Your computer just made some popcorn!

Maybe these phones were web enabled.

That’s it.

;-)

[Vinnie]

Gotta be a hoax. IIRC from the ‘old’ days it took a microwave oven w/ at least 450 watts to pop corn.
No way a cell phone approaches that. I think they put out less then 1 watt.

[MosesKnows]

Popcorn kernels need to be heated to around 450F before the moisture inside them turns to steam

Since you are gullible enough to believe the story in spite of your own experience consider this follow up experiment.

Assuming that popcorn must reach 450 degrees Fahrenheit before popping and knowing for a fact that at sea level water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit place one drop of water where you had been placing the popcorn. Please let us know if that drop of water turns to steam indicating it reached a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

[SaltyJoe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rA-zhTJuFU

Power a TV with a AAA battery.

If it’s on the internet, TV, youtube, in the newspaper...it must be true.

[fanfan]

Too bad.

It would make a great survival tool.