I originally wrote this for [email protected] but it works pretty good for me too:
NATO Astronaut 1: It never gets old, huh?
NATO Astronaut 2: Nope.
Astronaut 1: It kinda makes you want to…
Astronaut 2: Break into a song?
Astronaut 1: Yep.
I love the trenches,
I love the roadside mines,
I love blown bridges,
I love when turrets fly.
I love the whole world
And all its sights and sounds.
Boom-de-yah-da, boom-de-yah-da (twice)
I love my plane-fus,
I love nuke submarines,
I love logistics,
I love democracy!
I love the whole world
And all its craziness
Boom-de-yah-da, boom-de-yah-da (twice)
I love dictators
(I like to watch em hang)
I love Three Gorges
I love when things go bang!
I love the whole world
It’s such a brilliant place
Boom-de-ah-da, boom-de-ah-da (repeating until fade)
Temperature is average kinetic energy. It is very easy to put kinetic energy into an object and much harder to take it out. Microwaves do it by shining a “light” tuned to microwave frequencies on objects. So you can imagine the problem is about as hard as shining a lamp on something and having it get colder. Laser-based cooling methods do exist but they’re quite expensive and mostly operate on the atomic scale. For now, the best way we know of to cool large items in bulk is to put them next to something that’s even colder—in short, a refrigerator.