Basically nothing. Microwave radiation isn’t ionising like x-rays or UV are, the danger is just that they can heat you up in the same way that they heat your food up (and that there’s a heap of electricity involved in running the machine)
I knew a guy years ago who worked security at Vendenberg AFB. He said on cold nights, when they’d do the rounds, they’d linger for a bit in front of the microwave transmission tower dishes to warm up. Always gave me the willies.
I’ve never much liked chocolate myself (aside from the occasional craving), but supposedly the invention of the microwave as a cooking tool happened when a researcher walked past a microwave dish with a chocolate bar in his pocket and found it to have subsequently melted.
Basically nothing. Microwave radiation isn’t ionising like x-rays or UV are, the danger is just that they can heat you up in the same way that they heat your food up (and that there’s a heap of electricity involved in running the machine)
Words to live by:
Don’t jump in front of a naval radar dish.
I knew a guy years ago who worked security at Vendenberg AFB. He said on cold nights, when they’d do the rounds, they’d linger for a bit in front of the microwave transmission tower dishes to warm up. Always gave me the willies.
How did the chocolate in their pockets do?
You mean I’m not the only one who doesn’t like to be far from chocolate?
I’ve never much liked chocolate myself (aside from the occasional craving), but supposedly the invention of the microwave as a cooking tool happened when a researcher walked past a microwave dish with a chocolate bar in his pocket and found it to have subsequently melted.
That’s pretty bizarre.
And I mean about not liking chocolate, not the microwave thing.
I’ve never claimed to be normal, but your username makes me suspect you’re biased.