TechIngredients on YT demonstrating the principle of microwave weapons

[paulca]

I'm sure the 5g conspiracy nuts will think they've hit a gold mine here.  Awesome video though.

[dannybeckett]

Just watched this myself. Great video, really sad we've got to this point.

Relevant reading material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

[paulca]

Just watched this myself. Great video, really sad we've got to this point.

World's gone nuts.  I think it was better when....

... and everyone just calm down and smoke a joint.

[Someone]

of the metal screen: "there is a small voltage that can develop in the conductors here, but its small enough and it is lost in the resistance of the aluminum, so that you can touch this and you dont get a shock"
of the horn antenna: "you just cant get in front of it else well you might get some cancerous tumors"

They don't understand any of it, sure its a cool physical demo, but the explanations and conclusions are baloney.

[LaserSteve]

He's lucky he did not damage his corneas.
Steve

[jh15]

As scary as the Mythbusters show when they were filming an unshielded magnetron on the front of a car to defeat cop radar.
     I remember the 70;s hoopla of leaking oven concerns. It gave old tv and appliance stores a little lease on life using leakage detectors to detect danger.

[paulca]

On leakage, there was a good "Physics Girl" video where a comment in her video started an argument about whether a microwave can interfere with Wifi.

Long story short, microwaves can and do leak.  The safety spec is a set amount of Ws per m2 of area, something like X watt(s) of scattered microwaves if effectively permitted, which could interfere with Wifi and other comms.  However, most microwaves are much, much better than the minimum requirement, but some not by much.

Then there is the metal in the microwave.  I was always one who would say, Don't put it in the microwave.  YMMV but just don't bother.  However, my microwave came with a metal stand and has a section on using metal, asking people to put some of the metal into the microwave with a glass of water.  After 30 seconds if the metal is hot to the touch, it's not appropriate. 

I even put something wrapped in foil in it and it didn't generate showers of sparks.... it did end up making "that noise" though, so I took it out.  "That noise" being the light saber noise of plasma forming or the magnatron overloading the transform, I don't know what causes it.