Talk:Calorimeter

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This article has been used as a source by a Television Show. See the 2006 TV and radio source article for details. The citation is in: "Mythbusters" episode 55 first aired July 19, 2006. Segment: Which has more nutritional value: Cereal box or Cereal?

Calorimeters in particle physics (as particle detectors) are completely missing from this page. Any ideas how to include them? The content is potentially at least as big as calorimeters in chemistry. Maybe a disambiguation page should be created pointing to 'calorimeters in chemistry' and 'calorimeters in physics' gbrandt 14:11, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yeah and what about calorimeters used in exercise physiology experiments? They measure the calories burned in exercise or when a person is resting, and are obviously large enough to fit a person. [1] andphoto of room size calorimeter. I saw one report that noted their accuracy is about +/- 4%, which is apparently good enough for their use. - Taxman 18:37, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

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Merge with all other xxx calorimeter-type articles done. --Phils 20:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mythbusters

Hey, I don't know if anyone else here watches Mythbusters, but this page was just briefly featured in the most recent episode! Congratulations, you're famous! (lol) --KPWM_Spotter 01:24, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, it appeared on Mythbusters. --Pichu0102 03:08, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Does it qualify to be cited in the Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media area? --293.xx.xxx.xx 04:21, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I saw this on the Mythbusters as well. I do belive it deserves to be in the Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media area. --Straws 1:21, 20 July 2006 (EST)

Edited to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a source on TV and radio. --293.xx.xxx.xx 06:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Avoid self-references

Folks, can we please stop putting mention of the MythBusters appearance in the actual article? This is, after all, an article about calorimeters—not an article about the Wikipedia article on calorimeters. I can certainly understand that fans of the show are excited and want to bring attention to Grant's viewing of this article; I know I was happy to see Wikipedia getting even a few seconds of visibility on one of my favorite television shows (though it would have been nice if we were mentioned by name and/or if something more distinguishing like the logo were shown). Nonetheless, there's no good reason for an encyclopedia article on calorimeters to point out that one episode of a television show happened to show a few seconds of someone researching calorimeters using a particular online resource. So, let's leave such meta discussion of the MythBusters connection to this talk page, and keep the encyclopedia article encyclopedic and free of self-references, okay? — Jeff | (talk) | 06:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

People were doing this? Huh. --293.xx.xxx.xx 01:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes there were, my favorite [2]--Coasttocoast 01:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)