If you bypass the switches and the door is accidentally opened, the damage
to anyone or anything alive in the path of the radiation will have permanent
damage of some type.

Effects of microwave radiation at the intensity level that is from a
microwave oven, even if it is too weak to feel at the distance you may be
at, will cause eye damage, and promote the growth of cancer tissue.

Microwave radiation has to be very weak in order to not have a dangerous
effect. I think the safety rating for the maximum allowed is something like
50 uA/cm^2 (50 millionths of a watt at one centimetre at the minimal
distance from the point of transmission). The radiation from your microwave
oven is in the many hundreds of watts.

The radiation from your microwave oven is very intense for the purpose of
cooking food. This means that if you are exposed at a close enough distance,
you can be cooked!


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JANA
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"machinesmith" wrote in message
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This is probably a stupid question, but when you have the microwave going
and you disable the door open switch so the microwave doesnt go off when you
open the door while its running what happens?