Standard Deviant > wrote:
>I believe some of them developed tumors or some other deleterious
>health problems from exposure to the microwaves.
>
>How dangerous is microwave exposure anyway?

It's pretty bad, because it causes internal tissue heating. Rather than
just surface heat, it heats your body from the inside out. This has all
kinds of deleterious health effects.

I knew a guy who used to claim he could hear microwaves... when he was
standing in front of a 2 MW erp radar that was in about the same band
as a microwave oven, he could tell whether it was turned on or not. Turned
out what he was hearing was noise from his skull expanding slightly due
to the heating effects. This is bad for you. Admittedly the radiated
power there was about 2,000 times higher than a microwave oven, but he
was also at a distance so the field strength probably wasn't as high as
inside an oven.
--scott
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