Anthony Skatz

“Could you open bottles using nuclear bombs? This is a completely ridiculous suggestion, so it should come as no surprise that it was studied by the US government during the Cold War. Early in 1955, the Federal Civil Defense Administration bought beer, soda, and carbonated water from local stores, then tested nuclear weapons on them.”
― Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

“Sound recordings are sometimes plotted on a chart showing which sound frequencies were detected at which times. You can produce a plot like this from any sound recording, not just infrasound. In fact, the musician Aphex Twin has hidden “images” in his music that can be seen on a spectrogram.”
― Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

“In fact, while ultrasound travels less far than normal sound, infrasound travels farther. An infrasonic signal with a frequency below 1 cycle per second—1 Hz—can travel all the way around the planet.”
― Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

“Your electric kettles would draw roughly as much electricity as the entire rest of the country combined”
― Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems