That’s basically how Chinese popcorn is made. They use a pressure vessel to heat up the kernels the releases the pressure and it explosively turns into popcorn.
Edit: youtube video
101I looked this up, and it's terrifying
I was afraid he'd shoot that dog
21What the frick? Let's make a bomb to make popcorn!
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That was awesome especially kicking the lid off.
Watch beginning, then fast forward towards end.
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Then the cops come in and shoot you.
68Acorns, popcorn...
Maybe they have a Vendetta against all things corn?
Halloween enthusiasts and the Midwest corn belt should be concerned...
17Candy corn, explains so much...
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they may shoot me, but i will rest easy knowing they wont be able to shoot all the popcorn
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I like this game. Imagine if all of the water vapor in a cloud condensed in an even distribution so that all of the rain fell at once.
55"There's an xkcd for that"
44imagine that you're looking at the night sky and the stars blinked out all at once for just a second
15Since they're all so far away and so many different distances away, it would imply something very very very large and very very very fast passed between us and the closest stars. Probably aliens. That would be cool
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Let's do the math! If you assume there are 300 kernels, the popcorn will be finished within two minutes, and all kernels popping within 100 ms of each other is sufficient for a big bada boom...
There are 2×60×10 epochs where the bang could occur. Each of the 300 kernels needs to pop in the same epoch, so 1/(2×60×10) is the probability of the second kernel popping in the same epoch as the first kernel. The probability of all 299 popping in the same epoch as the first kernel is (1/(2×60×10))^299 = (2×60×10)^(-299).
Crunching the numbers in the Google search calculator... the probability is zero. That was anticlimactic.
52That math assumes a flat distribution of popping times, which I suspect is incorrect.
Listening to a bag of microwave popcorn, it starts off slow, gets more rapid, and then tapers off again, implying that kernels are more likely to pop near the average time, which makes it somewhat more likely for two kernels to pop simultaneously.
But yeah, whole bag at once is probably still basically zero. Unless you use one of these, of course.
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The exact probability is something more like 2*10^-921. Given that it would take around 9 gogol (9*10^926) years of constantly popping popcorns until that happens. Should we try?
11Yeah lets try, hasnt been done before
5Should we try?
Absolutely. You can feed all the unsuccessful attempts to the Shakespeare-typing monkeys.
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Except Kerbal popping is rate limited by energy input, there's not an instant of energy flow, there's 150 seconds of energy input, each second increasing the energy, popped kernals absorb less energy allowing the unpopped ones to absorb the incoming energy to each the same state.
If you wanted them to all pop at once you'd need to put that amount of energy in all at once. Not impossible, but not going to happen with your home microwave oven
4I can't imagine it would be equally distributed? Probably normal distribution applies over the span, most of the kernels would probably pop within say 20s of each other, and none in the beginning.
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Technology Connections on YouTube made a great video about the popcorn functionality on microwave ovens. You should check it out.
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41Those episodes were so good. I was at my gfs place and made her watch it. When he got to reading the manual pointing out prewash, she shouted "oh my god" paused the video, went into the kitchen. "Oooh". Hers did indeed have that :D It's not easy to find powder around there either so she's taken to mortaring tablets and using a bit of that.
13Don't let her shame you. That guy is awesome.
10my mum calls him the toaster guy
6I started dosing the prewash with a bit of powder after that video
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They do that. With pressure poppers.
27imagine two onions. heck, imagine three onions.
16that's how you make 뻥튀기! Street vendors let off a loud whistle before the pop. nearly jumped out of my shoes the first time I heard it
14Is this the pressure chamber popcorn that goes bang when they open the hatch?
7뻥이요!
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You can literally do this with a pressure vessel.
12I feel like the whole bag would just rip open and popcorn would go all over the microwave if every kernel popped at once.
8Bombcorn
3Isn't this how those Chinese popcorn makers work?
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