On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:03:36 -0000, colin wrote:

"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:38:36 -0000, colin
wrote:

"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:53:25 -0000, Snap Whipcrack..............
wrote:

It dissipates. Where do you think the microwave transmitters on
mountain
tops power ends up? It doesn't go round and round the earth forever.

It's absorbed into water, in lakes for example.

A closed microwave has nothing that can absorb it.

The glass tray will usually absorb some of the microwave, basically when
its
empty the electric field builds up to such a high value that it
eventually
gets absorbed by something somewhere, or it ends up disipating in
sparking
wich can be quite spectacular if have two bits of unconnected metal
close to
eachother.

Brainiac Science Abuse (TV program) put a set of five swinging balls (one
of them office toys) in a microwave on its own. The microwave exploded
spectacularly after less than a minute. Can you explain that?

From what ive seen of braniac they probably filled it with something that
would explode spectacularly.
I wonder what the balls were made of, something explosive perhaps ?
ordinary flour or paper dust can make a very good explosive if mixed with
air.

You mean they were lying?!?

A colleague suggested that large metal objects might "short circuit" the magnetron and draw more power from it than it expects. I didn't agree or disagree, I know nothing about that sort of thing.

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