1598: Salvage

2015-11-02T15:37:58Z

LonnyRose: The device goes in the rice, the rice doesn't go inside the device.

{{comic
| number = 1598
| date = November 2, 2015
| title = Salvage
| image = salvage.png
| titletext = My hobby: Taking advantage of the rice myth by posting articles on "how to save your wet phone" which are actually just elaborate recipes for rice pilaf.
}}

==Explanation==
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The "rice myth" mentioned in the title text is the belief that putting a wet electronic device (often a cellphone) in rice will salvage it. The rice is said to quickly and efficiently absorb water and restore function to the device. However, Randall seems to disagree with this theory in the title text, by calling it a myth.

The comic shows the {{w|RMS Titanic}} being salvaged with rice. The rice container is scaled up to fit the massive ship, presumably to get the water out of it. However, the amount of time the Titanic has spent underwater has rusted most of the material, which drying the ship out will not solve.

The comic plays on the scale of the word "salvage." It can mean something as simple as saving a broken or lost personal item, but the original meaning is to collect the remains of a vessel or structure that has been destroyed.

Controlled scientific experiments on this topic tend to show that silica gel (aka "Do Not Eat" packets) is the most effective drying agent, with mixed results for rice.<ref>[http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2013/november/researchshowsriceistheanswerforawetmobile.php Research Shows Rice is the Answer for a Wet Mobile]</ref><ref>[http://smartphones.wonderhowto.com/how-to/myth-debunked-uncooked-rice-isnt-best-way-save-your-water-damaged-phone-0154799/ Myth Debunked: Uncooked Rice Isn't the Best Way to Save Your Water-Damaged Phone]</ref>

==Transcript==
:[Megan is shown standing at the rail of a ship with a microphone reporting the event shown in the background. A small helicopter and a larger two rotor model, lowering a rope with hook, are hovering over a crane ship with it's hook down line going down in the water. It is depicted like a new screen as seen on TV. Below Megan are two headings. The first in a white insert with double frame, and the other written in white over the gray ocean water.]
:Historic Salvage
:Live

:[Four crane ships are shown lifting the bow part of the RMS Titanic. There are pontoons beneath the ship to help it float up. The name of the ship can be seen.]
:RMS Titanic

:[Both parts of the Titanic are now flown by helicopters, four for the stern and five for the bow. One helicopter for each part is a two rotor model. Ropes go from the helicopters down on each side of the ship parts to pontoons below them. Below in the ocean there are two crane ships.]

:[The two parts of the ship is now lowered in to a huge bowl of rice (labeled) standing at the coast just out of the ocean, which can be seen to the left. One of the five helicopters for the bow is missing. For scale there are drawn two trees to the left, and something is parked to the right, maybe a truck.]
:Rice

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1598: Salvage