Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for March 30, 2011

I’ll just select the Super Power setting

well, to be fair, the microwave does emit microwave (radio wave) radiation, the same way a light bulb emits visible light radiation

Why oh Lord, WHY weren’t there microwaves when I was 12.

Microwave radiation is “non-ionizing,” same as visible light, radio waves… and deadly gamma radiation from a nuclear bomb. All just a matter of frequency and wavelength… Looks like Dr. Negato’s been fooling around with the magnetron in this oven…

One time at work I tried to use one of the cafeteria microwaves, but a fly went in and I couldn’t shoo it out. So I shut the door and turned it on. It flew around in tight little circles then dropped dead. I then brushed it away and warmed my sandwich.

Lewreader, the first commercial microwave oven was built in 1947. It was almost 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) tall, weighed 340 kilograms (750 lb) and cost about US$5000 each. (US$49,500 in 2011).

Here’s more, Chikuku - that fiorst commercial microwave was installed on the first commercial nuclear-powered cargo/passenger ship and it’s still there and still in use. They just don’t make ‘em like that any more.

baslim_the_begger said, Good thing Superman only has X-ray vision…or so he claims…

”’Micro-vision’?” “…It’s my super-power, I can call it anything I want.”

Runar, I doubt that it gets much use since the NS Savannah ( the ship referenced) has been mothballed for many years, unless the skeleton crew onboard uses it at lunchtime :-)

BTW NS Savannah is mothballed along with many other cargo ships at the Army’s base at Fort Eustis in Virginia. The U.S. Army actually has more ships/boats than the U.S. Navy does.