That is, can a microwave oven be rigged so that it can cook things outside the box? If so, how easy would it be to focus the microwaves into a beam, which would essentially make it into an energy weapon (like a sonic cannon or laser beam)?
I'm in no way advocating this, but has anyone tried? What would be its range? If possible, are there any safeguards in place to prevent people from doing this...or is this another item we should add to our list of things we should be worried about?
2007-03-15 13:48:04 · 5 answers · asked by no_good_names_left_17 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
To clarify, can an ORDINARY microwave oven be converted into a portable energy weapon, capable of being directed EXTERNALLY at a person?
2007-03-15 14:00:12 · update #1
If you remove he front door of a microwave and rig it to "cook", by placing a properly designed deflector in it, you can direct the energy outward.
Place that on the front grill of your car, turn it on, and drive down the road. You'll probably cook a cop's radar gun if he's aiming it at the front of your microwave as you as you're heading his way.
It probably will not work with infrared speed detection systems, though.
Otherwise, no because microwaves are very short and require a great deal of energy in order to travel long distances.
A common microwave oven lacks the kind of power to generate that kind of microwave energy.
2007-03-15 14:21:03 · answer #1 · answered by krollohare2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the airforce devoloped a giant microwave dish to use on unruly crowds of people to make them disburse. It makes you feel like your skin is burning.
"If you have ever touched a hot light bulb you have some idea of how your body would feel if it were hit by the Pain Cannon that is being jointly developed by the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps.
The cannon fires a burst of microwave energy toward..."
2007-03-15 20:53:52 · answer #2 · answered by Bailey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The microwave was "discovered" by a radar technician who figured out that if he put his cup of coffee in front of the radar "antenna" that his coffee stayed hot.
All the boys at Ratheon did was put a shell around a radar antenna and call it a radar range (original name for a microwave)
Us old bastards know everything.
2007-03-15 20:56:03 · answer #3 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes: Over cooked buritos beware!!!
2007-03-15 20:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stick your cat in it and find out
2007-03-15 20:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋