James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 12/11/2017 11:50 AM:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:07:43 -0000, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch
wrote:

On 2007-01-19 12:13, Peter ****er wrote:
Is it really true that turning on a microwave with nothing in it will
break it?

Derp.

It was a sensible question. This could be done by accident.

I interviewed with a place once that was doing something with testing
microwave ovens. They ran them all the time with nothing in them. I had
always read that you should not operate them with nothing to absorb the
energy and mentioned that. I got a strange look from the guy. Obviously
the energy that would be absorbed is within the limits of what the ovens
were designed to get rid of.

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Rick C

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms,
on the centerline of totality since 1998