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Default Running an empty microwave oven

That sounds familiar. My greys love power cords!

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:54:41 -0000, wrote:

yep, we give humans way too much in the way of exclusive ability to think
and reason. & dont forget, some of these other critters have had eons of
evolutionary expertise in dealing with the occasional problems of human
interference! and they win too! we seem to be ruthless killers for no
reasons at all!

release of grey parrots from zoo in NY city awhile back, they migrated east
to connecticut, began habitating/building HUGE stick nests around (what
else) telephone poles cross arms, complete with transformers and 14 KV feed
thru lines!

30-40 birds per nest, quite a probem for power crews! of course, animal
rights folks went nuts when they had to start removing them!. u can read
articles abt in news archives. quite interesting

:-))

"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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They're cleverer than you think. One escaped, and flew from tree to tree

waiting for me to chase after him. Came back the following day by himself,
after flying for miles all over the place.


On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:19:42 -0000, wrote:

most with glass rotating trays will run, the glass absorbs enough rays

to
heat up slightly but wont smoke anything.

might ruin your electric bill budget though. ;-))

shakle the damm bird to the cage/perch

or teach the bird to climb inside to warm itself up. ;-P





"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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Is it really true that turning on a microwave with nothing in it will
break it?

Even more worrying - will it catch fire or explode?

Don't they have a safety cutout? Can't it sense the Klystron

overheating,
or a build up of microwaves over a certain level?

I have purchased a new microwave which has an easier to grab control.

I'm
concerned one of my pet parrots will switch it on! (Seriously, they do
stuff like that)

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