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Comment by lpcvoid

1 year ago

>soldiers keeping themselves warm by stepping in front of a radar emitter

Holy, did people actually do this? A quick search yielded no results. Not sure if thankful or not.

Weren't microwave ovens invented because someone's chocolate melted in their pocket while operating a radio transmitter? Maybe it's just a lady godiva story since it seems weird that the person wouldn't feel overly hot as well, but maybe.

  • It's a well known story, he was doing maintenance:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery

    The thing is, you don't need a lot of extra heat to melt a chocolate bar on your pocket. It's perfectly possible that everybody felt hot when working on an active radar, but didn't discuss it or maybe even notice the correlation.

    • Oh wow it's even known what brand of a bar it was, funny that.

      > The first food deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave oven was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.

      They were having a blast I see.