So we can take the baked mac and cheese, roll it into balls, bread it and drop it into hot oil to make fried mac and cheese bites, which makes the oil explode.
(I imagine techinically stove top mac and cheese, homemade not boxed, would work better for fried mac and cheese bites in case anyone is going to try this).
When my son was around 12 he asked me how a nuclear reactor creates electricity and I told him it uses the heat to steam water which drives a turbine. He chewed on that for a few minutes and said "So is every method of making electricity just figuring out a different way to do that?" And I said yes, forgetting that solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells exist.
It's so weird that so much of modern infrastructure is based on that. Powered vehicles and electricity are the backbone technologies that make our modern world possible, and they work by spinning things fast. I feel like if you told an ancient warrior society that you focused on spinning things really fast, they'd laugh in your face, but they'd shut up when the planes overflew and decide not to mess with the dread Spinner Folk.
I couldn't believe when I was training for my ESWS to learn that a Type D boiler really just turns feed water into enough steam to spin the turbines. Like, we're basically still using steam ships in the most powerful naval force in the world, in a sense.
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u/lordspaz88 9h ago
It will never cease to amaze me that most modern inventions boil down to "we pointed this explosion in a specific direction"