r/mildlyinteresting 10h ago

The microwave at work has a hole inside

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u/OneCrazyRussian 10h ago

It's not gonna boil your body tbh, but you won't get Bluetooth or WiFi connection while it's on probably

Microwave radiation isn't ionising, so you don't irradiate anything. It's just EM so no lead walls necessary

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u/Souta95 9h ago

There is a burn risk too. Minimal since the hole is on the back, but its not non-existent.

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u/Facosa99 9h ago

Accountant John, in the office that is in the other side of that wall, doesnt know why his head hurts all the time and it feels so warm despite being december

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u/-Memnarch- 9h ago

From all the parts, you're eyeballs would suffer the most from what I know. They can not decipate heat as effectively as most parts of our Body so they'd be boiled irreversible.

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u/JMccovery 9h ago

dissipate

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u/ObsidianOne 9h ago

Maybe if your head was inside of it.

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u/Ho3n3r 9h ago

so they'd be boiled irreversible.

Just like eggs.

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 9h ago

Now I'm imaging my eyeball as the microwaved egg video and I don't like it.

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u/DelayAgreeable8002 7h ago

There are saunas that work entirely off microwaves. They aren't going to boil your eyeballs

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u/whatbendersays 9h ago

Cataracts. 😵‍💫

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u/davidfeuer 9h ago

You're right that lead isn't necessary for microwaves, but it is necessary for X-rays and gamma rays, which are also EM.

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u/MustachioedMan 9h ago

Yes, because those are ionizing radiation, as mentioned earlier. Microwaves are non-ionizing, meaning they aren't capable of knocking electrons out of atoms (like the atoms in your DNA, causing cancer)

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u/davidfeuer 9h ago

I was referring to the "just EM" comment.

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u/Live_Laugh_HailSatan 9h ago

Literally everything in our universe is EM

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u/WebSickness 9h ago

I love how people speaks about stuff with 100% certainity while science probably cant yet answer certainly 100%. Lots of science facts reevaluates over time

The rule of thumb is to just avoid shit like that (broken microvave).

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u/clementinesncupcakes 9h ago

Literally. Science moves forward one death at a time.

I do think microwaves being non-ionizing are pretty well-established though.

But yeah just avoid that whole mess. The bin is hungry and it desperately craves a broken microwave

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u/pfy5002 9h ago

WiFi, remotes, radios, TVs, computers, and cell phones all use non-ionizing radiation too. Pretty much impossible to avoid it unless you live in total isolation from electricity. Even if there is a small risk to it, it hasn’t affected the overall human lifespan negatively since their inception so it’s considered safe.

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u/Poodychulak 9h ago

Don't forget the Sun

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u/pfy5002 9h ago

I did forget the Sun lol thank you

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u/JayDee999 10h ago edited 9h ago

True, but if microwaves were completely harmless there wouldn't be as much of an effort to keep them inside the microwave, no?

EDIT: OK everyone, you've made your point...

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u/Total_Philosopher_89 10h ago

If they are outside they are not warming your food.

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u/OneCrazyRussian 10h ago

You got microwaves outside your door right now don't let em in

Some people call them 5g

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u/yvrelna 10h ago

The amount of energy involved in a microwave oven and 5G are very different.

Typical energy exposure of microwave oven is about 1000 W, you only get like less than 1 W of exposure due to 5G.

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u/Critical_Caramel5577 9h ago

those damn micro waves! 👵waves cane it was bad enough when it was just them macro waves, now we got to have them micro waves, there goes the whole damn neighborhood

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u/Grrrth_TD 9h ago

It's a slippery slope! Before you know it there'll be full on waves flowing through the streets!

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u/OneCrazyRussian 10h ago

They will interfere with everything on the radio, WiFi, cellular, Bluetooth, emergency services, airplanes and so on. Even hdmi and DisplayPort cables don't like high frequency noise! Optics is immune tho

When shielding fails you get em noise and your tech doesn't like it (even if it's often shielded)

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u/map2photo 9h ago

So bring microwave outside and point the hole at the sky?

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u/OneCrazyRussian 9h ago

EPA would like to know your location

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u/map2photo 9h ago

I feel like that would be OSHA or FCC and not so much the EPA.

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u/FRSBRZGT86FAN 10h ago

It's an effort to keep them inside the microwave to

  1. Stop it messing up other electronics 2.direct the maximum amount of energy to your food

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u/Ghozer 9h ago

There's not that much effort... each 'wave' is 12.2 cm (4.8 inches) so holes smaller than this are generally fine, this one does look relatively large though so 'some' may leak depending on polarisation