>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.
Holy, did people actually do this? A quick search yielded no results. Not sure if thankful or not.
But the effects are debated and not entirely scientific: https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/13r6hod/i_keep_being_...
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.
> 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.