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Just how was this discovered? "Hey, no food or drink in the lab. DARN IT - look what you did now!"
by russfink 7y ago
Just how was this discovered? "Hey, no food or drink in the lab. DARN IT - look what you did now!"
- michelb 7y agoI'm wondering if somewhere someone has a program running a simulation on combinations of chemicals to see what would happen.
- lm28469 7y agoThat's how we ended up with microwave ovens. > In 1945, the specific heating effect of a high-power microwave beam was accidentally discovered by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine. Employed by Raytheon at the time, he noticed that microwaves from an active radar set he was working on started to melt a chocolate bar he had in his pocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery
- dna113 7y agoLol what else was melting if the chocolate in his pocket was melting?
- gdubs 7y agoThis is only barely related but when we bought our house the (ancient) gas stove was malfunctioning. I looked up the brand (Modern Maid, I think) and was very surprised to learn they were a subsidiary of Raytheon. The thought of a gas appliance made by a weapons manufacturer was, a little unsettling. Replaced that thing pretty quickly.
- MS90 7y agoDon't go looking too deep into ol' General Electric then.
- sl1ck731 7y agoI don't understand this. Were you afraid your stove was a weapon in disguise?
- gdubs 7y agoNo, it was a joke. I only know Raytheon as a weapons / explosives company. Had no idea they had a consumer products arm at some point (unlike GE which at one point owned everything including film studios, which is fairly common knowledge.) Given that we were concerned we had a leaky gas appliance...
- whenchamenia 7y agoBetter throw out all your GE, GM, and even Mattel products then. Nearly every major manufacturer does, or has at one time, been involved in weapons manufacture.
- sl1ck731 7y agoBasically any computing device as well since all the processor manufacturers have defense contracts. Interestingly there is a rendering of what appears to be a Predator drone on the AMD website: https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-solutions https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-soluti...
- maimeowmeow 7y agoThats it, Im only going to support intel from now on. /s
- totoglazer 7y agoAlso those hipster glass canning jars from Ball.
- gdubs 7y agoPeople: I replaced it because it was malfunctioning, not actually because it had a connection to Raytheon. It was too old to be worth fixing.