Radar - Father of the Microwave Oven

[jeffersonratilla]

Cool history i like it!

[JosephStetson]

A microwave oven should be called a microwave radio frequency food irradiative poisoning device.

[badattitude77769]

My seventy four dollar bug detector goes off when the microwave is leaking, goes off briefly when dialing on the cell phone, on a job site, using a rotating radar beam for setting grade, it went off everytime it came my way, the oven is going, and am getting a land line, survived without a cell in the past.

[laurieannek]

I am using my microwave the last time at this very moment. I am making popcorn and it is my last microwave food item.

I am trashing my microwave. Don't need it or want the health issues.

[jmkpns]

I've been told that microwave ovens from the 70s were more dangerous than the ones today.

[peterweetbeter]

The Nazis originally developed microwave "radiomissor" cooking ovens for use in their mobile support operations, for the invasion of Russia.

[LKJPDUR]

How come he didn't get cancer and die if he was so close to the radiation that the chocolate melted.

[cosmicnights]

I am not taking any chances. I stay well clear from microwaves and I refuse to own one. I like the taste for food too much to kill it in a microwave.

[miel001]

what did Percy die from? Oh, oh... don't tell me! Lukemia!?

[ominuka]

Yeah if that's not enough the microwave also emits awful radiation levels and isn't really healthy IMO. That's because it emits levels as high as those of some of Chernobyl! Don't use microwaves.

[Jakemmx]

Completely different thing though.

[moffin01]

Great vid ("Im slowly working my way around your clips). Apart from the leakage there is also an issue with the quality of the food that it produces. Keep the info coming!

[Lucidtomr]

Anyway to use this technology to disable RFID chips?

[Jakemmx]

Yes, but not safely from any range.

[webhiway]

Your cellphone operates at between 800-1900Mhz at less than 1/4 of a watt, microwave oven shielding is designed for 2.4Ghz at around 800 watts, Lower frequencies go through walls and obstacles much easier. Microwave telecommunications links operate at around 1 watt or less and have most of their gain produced by the antenna, Microwaves are over 1 Ghz. Exposure to ANY strong RF energy can be harmful.

n5xu.ece.utexas(dot)edu/rfsafe­ty/

[webhiway]

The original microwave was working in her kitchen for 30yrs, did she get fried yet? there are microwave leak detectors that appliance repairmen use, if your afraid of it. or go to microwaves101 dot com to learn more

[factsnow]

You can put a cell phone INSIDE a microwave oven,

call up the cell phone and it recieves the call inside the oven.

The so called shielding of the microwave oven does not work

Long distance transmittions are called Microwave relay stations,

cell phones are referd to by some industry people as microwave phones.

[Jakemmx]

Cellphones work at a significantly lower frequency. The shielding is made for EM waves at the microwave oven frequency, usually 2.45 GHz. And yes, different frequencies interact with matter in different ways.

Example: Most glass is completely opaque (black) to infrared light, and the infrared lenses are opaque to visible light ... or look at color (selective frequency absorption) of any non-grayscale object.

[Watcher3223]

@factsnow

"The so called shielding of the microwave oven does not work"

Cell phones operate at a frequency range far below that of a microwave oven (.8-1.9 GHz).

It's easy to assume that, if a cooking chamber can shield higher frequencies from escaping, then it can shield against lower frequencies. Not necessarily.

A better test would be seeing if a smartphone's or a netbook's wi-fi connection is interrupted with a microwave oven. Both Wi-Fi and microwave ovens operate at around 2.4 GHz.

[AnduinX]

"The original microwave was working in her kitchen for 30yrs, did she get fried yet?" When people can't see anything occuring in the NOW, they assume nothing is happening at all. It's moronic. There are some people who have been smoking for 30, 40, 50 years and have not died, does that mean smoking is not harmful?  EMF effects are often gradual, she might not be dead, but you don't know the state of her health.

[webhiway]

Our exposure to naturally occurring forms of radiation are far greater than that of microwave ovens and cell phones (the outside of microwave oven produces around the same as a wireless phone)while we all need to be aware of high levels of harmful radiation both natural and man made, it is unavoidable (the sun and radon gas for example). Staying away from all harmful sources of radiation would be impossible, minimizing your risk factors is all that you can do.

[miel001]

why does my cellphone cause pain in my head when I use it? I always have to go to speaker because of the pain.

[murdock490]

why isnt anyone saying smht abt how dangerous the shit is DONT USE MICROWAWE ITS RADIATING idiots

[DragonFlyback256]

@murdock490

Of course, it's radiating. Microwave is radiation.

[getorphan]

Thanks for posting. I put up a new vid/clip with improved audio on the feasibility of building your own mircrowave cannon. The text of what the robot voice is reading is in upper right.