Not a science major

By dumb mother - This FML is from back in 2012 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, my mother yelled at me for standing too close to the microwave. Her reason? The radiation was going to seep through, kill my sperm, and cause cancer. FML
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alaskababy907 11

Hey, I heard that if you stand too close to the microwave you can get cancer from the radiation in those things. You should probably stay away from them...

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thatgirlinoregon 21

I wonder how much 'kimotherapy' costs? Less than chemotherapy, perhaps?

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license2chill 5

Well, she's right to a certain degree. Normal household microwave is around 1 kw nowadays, as an electrical engineer, i can tell you that's a pretty damn powerful EM radiating source, and leakage is expected. It does adversely affect your health, but the exact effects are still the area of active research. So try not to stay too close to the microwave while it's operating.

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iamyourgod 3

As an electrical engineer to another electrical engineer, stop feeding these peoples' delusional misunderstanding of physics. We both know microwaves emit a lot waves, but weak ones. They are no where even close to being able to knock electrons up one energy level, let alone ionize them and ruin the chemical bonds in your DNA causing cancer. They have very little penetration and really can only affect humans by rotating water molecules due to their polarity. This is just heat, completely harmless unless you were a moron and punched a hole in a microwave and waited for your arm to boil.

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pmreck 1

I worry about our futures when I hear things like that. Lol.

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structuredchaoz 4

While that may be unreasonable, check out the recent cancer clusters popping up near airports with the new naked scanners. Scary stuff.

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HentaiBunny 4

Haven't you seen south park? You'll be able to bounce on them!!!

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sulljason 0

The mesh in the window is a Faraday cage and the microwave is grounded. The microwave radiation from the magnetron gets reflected back into the microwave because the waves are bigger then the holes.

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1a2b3c4d5e678D 0

But weren't you gonna eat something out of the microwave??????? Like wat? You can eat stuff that goes inside the microwave but OHH NoOOO don't stand too close!.... Why doesn't she get rid of it if she believes that anyways?

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dlaury 0

Well.. Microwaves are not good for the body.

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Rocky007 15

She's probably right.

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lucyinthesky420 10

Ya never know.

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