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>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 tha

>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.

simondanerd 2y ago
Works, it's a weird feeling, speaking from experience. HF antennas can give some respectable burns too. But the effects are debated and not entirely scientific: https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/13r6hod/i_keep_being_told_signaliers_only_have_daughters/ https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/13r6hod/i_keep_being_...
moffkalast 2y ago
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.
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  It's a well known story, he was doing maintenance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery 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.
  - InvisGhost 2y ago
    The bit on that wikipedia page about reanimating frozen hamsters is a bit of a sci-fi nightmare
    - moffkalast 2y ago
      Tom Scott has a great video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
  - moffkalast 2y ago
    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.