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Grass hopper & fruit flies in microwave (Patreon)

Published:
2017-09-07 21:56:06
Imported:
2021-10

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The infrared camera got me thinking...

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bugs in microwave

Probably the most sadistic thing I have done in a while. Help me make videos by donating here: https://www.patreon.com/CodysLab

Comments

Anonymous

Brace for the incoming cruelty hate! I think its very interesting though. Thanks for saying screw it in the name of science!

Anonymous

This experiment seems needlessly cruel - I don't think you want to publish this to YouTube unless you are looking to start some shit on purpose. Creating a controversy can drive views but will likely turn a lot of people off your channel. Back away from the cliff....

Anonymous
>>7102857

I agree it'll be likely much more trouble than its worth.

Anonymous

This just seems unnecessary to me .. you could have showed this in another way

Anonymous

Bro, cody. It got me to click, but I don't know about this medium. It'll be interesting at the very least to see the reaction people have, but possibly destructive or more trouble than it's worth. It's up to you though, and I will still patreon.

Chuck Lynch

I was going to say something along the lines of "maybe don't make this public" after I heard/saw the grasshopper explode... I think the people that commented before me have that covered though. I personally don't care if you microwave grasshoppers. Burn em all.

Anonymous

I agree with others- The backlash isn't worth it. The video is educational, but people will be too sensitive to killing insects in a microwave. I don't care at all but I don't want you to face backlash

Anonymous

Yeah. Seems a tad cruel

Anonymous

I think I remember them saying something like this on the simpsons but I didn't believe it at the time, guess it was the truth

Anonymous

Dude, super interesting and educational video but I couldn't agree more with these other comments. Don't publish this LOL back away from the cliff. PETA backlash abound.

Anonymous

I am afraid that you are going to get PETA all over you, and those particular fruit flies are too large to fit in the microwave. Joking aside, this would not pass an ethics committee review, because Grasshoppers are a higher form of life than ethicists. OK, enough with the jokes. bad idea.

Anonymous

holy shit lol

Anonymous

Funny how people react like this and yet they run for the bug spray everytime they see a cockroach.

hey7328

Tip: set your camera to manual focus so that it doesn't auto focus on the metal screen and instead past it inside the microwave

Anonymous

I don't have any real problems with this, and it's an interesting experiment, but I would agree that posting this might cause more commotion that it's worth.

Anonymous

Yeah. Don't publish it, don't do that sort of experiment again (and I don't mean do them off camera...), and let's just call that a mistake.

Anonymous

Id say publish a video with only fruit flies, since then you wont have the backlash of killing one poor, little bug (sarcasm), but still get to show the interesting science.

Anonymous

Yeah... Don't put this on YouTube. Maybe you could remake it with fruit flies in one jar and a large piece of organic material in the other that isn't alive.

Anonymous

Make another video but with only the fruit flies, take the grasshopper out. Same education

Anonymous

My first thought when seeing the grasshopper explode was, this is gonna trigger people, big time. If you want to spark a debate on ethics that ends in someone comparing you to Hitler, publish the video.

Anonymous

As a microbiologist, I strenuously object to the wanton slaughter of the poor little beneficial bacteria in that grasshopper's gut.

Anonymous
>>7103714

If butterflies infested our homes, they'd be on the WANTED posters too. Gorgeous, gorgeous wanted posters--like the lovely Japanese beetle.

Anonymous

Can't wait to read the comment section on this video get ready to see the worst of humanity lol.

Anonymous

Should've gotten into contact with Steve Mould on how to film what's going on inside a microwave. Also: you can just replace the grasshopper with a fake water filled bug-like sac.

Anonymous

Yeah... regardless of your own personal objectivity and feelings as to the significance of a lower level life-form versus another, I would assume that a vast majority of people are going to see this as being sadistic. =P

Anonymous
>>7104532

stop beeing a sissy... how can you live with yourself... by what you just said I can see you must be a lonely person...

U.S. Water Rockets

YouTube will de-monetize this video if you publish it.

Anonymous

Grasshopper is a peaceful herbivorous bug. Killing it on camera isn't good. When you're killing anything (especially on camera) there must be a good reason for it. For example, preventing human victims of radar radiation or such. Don't do it just for fun.

CodysLab

Ok how about I do it again but with only fruit flies and say a strawberry?

Anonymous

Everyone will eventually die so if we're humans we think about meaning of life. So science should seek not for just fulfilling the curiosity but establishing this meaning. The science should allow humanity to go beyond any limit in its creative work. Beyond gravitation limit, beyond limits of Solar system, beyond limits of even death itself and the death of Universe (either from collapsing or over-expanding). Not just curiosity but saving mankind - that's the goal. Or it would lead to rather sad consequences. Someone said about comparing with Hitler which is rediculous (though it would be done if video go public) but you may compare with Dr. Mengele who made experiments in death camp. And he said that making experiments with those sentensed to death provided some meaning for their lives (so he wasn't just a plain killer). And without thinking about saving the mankind as the purpose of science you cannot say Dr. Mengele was wrong. Because otherwise ethics is a some nuisance between scientist and his curiosity.

Anonymous

Using animals for experiments is a very thorny subject. It is questionable if the purpose of this experiment justified killing the grasshopper despite the fact that you are permitted to kill and eat grasshoppers (yes they are edible). Since you did this in the USA, it would be wise to check what US law has to say on the subject. Although it might take longer, you could try comparing seeds and fruit, let the fruit explode then plant and grow the seeds. Having said all that, there is a very big difference between experimenting on animals and people (the comparison with Mengele is wrong). From a religious point of view we are allowed to use and eat living things (Genesis 1:30) but forbidden to kill people (Exodus 20:13).

Anonymous

As others have already said, better to keep this from your general public. People sure are sensitive nowadays. Now excuse me, while I go bug hunting to see what pops in the microwave.

Anonymous

Interesting, what about fire ants as indivuals then as a tightly packed group as if floating in water?

Anonymous

are the fruit flies completely incapable of absorbing microwaves or is it just that it's very low probability of them absorbing enough to be cooked? So after the microwaving are they slightly warmer than when they went in, and if so, could you kill them with longer exposure? Thanks!

CodysLab
>>7110525

As far as I know it is completely impossible, they only get some heat from the glass absorbing the microwaves, like if I put them in for 5 minutes then they die but also the whole jar gets hot.

CodysLab
>>7110085

as long as they can stop a photon they will absorb it, interestingly this means that if they get closer than 2mm (but not touching) they will get hot. great now I want to try this...

Anonymous

You know, I regularly buy (and in good weather catch in the field) crickets and locusts for my pet lizards. You could say that you were just making an insect lasagna for your pet... :)

Barmp

The people troubled by this probably wouldn't care so much if the grasshopper was euthanized. Kill it with CO2 and nobody cares. IIRC experimentation on invertebrates does not require any ethics oversight.

Alexander Thomas

I once caught a fly in the microwave oven and came to this same conclusion, the fly wasn't bothered by the waves at all because it is too small. You should indeed not publish this in this form because you will get a lot of backlash from overly sensitive viewers, but it would be OK to use a strawberry or something else.

Alexander Thomas
>>7129696

The wavelength of a household oven is about 12 cm (4.8in). Given that fruit flies and a regular fly don't absorb enough energy to be harmed while this grasshopper went kablooie, I wonder where the threshold is. I reckon it will be somewhere below one quarter wavelength. Now that you have an infrared camera, it would be interesting to see how strips of some humid material of different lengths heat up after a few seconds in the oven.

Anonymous

Wow, honestly didn't expect the grasshopper to explode!

Mark Rose

Glass actually does absorb microwave radiation. Ask any radio technician. But the wattage of the microwaves in the office will easily overpower the glass in the jars.