Microwave Radiation
Slashdot Hardware Story | Revisiting DIY HERF Guns
Re:I missed something (Score:4, Insightful)
by ekhben (628371) on Sunday September 27, @09:37PM (#29561419)
The only way microwave radiation is going to sterilise someone is by cooking their reproductive cells. These HERF devices would have to be pointed right at a crotch, and used for enough time for all the flesh in the area to be cooked, for sterilisation to occur. I rather suspect that even the dimmest of backyard tinkerer might figure out to point the device in another direction when they start to smell the pork.
To help you understand the large gap between the amount of microwave radiation necessary to harm humans, and the amount necessary to harm electronics, try microwaving your phone for 15 seconds. Then try microwaving some raw chicken for 15 seconds.
Don’t eat the chicken, it’s been irradiated. Also, it’s raw.
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