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From: "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Deadlock resolution
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:29:45 +0100
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:29:16 -0400, Robert I. Eachus  
<rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:

> ...
> For safety reasons the radar sites had to have hardware interlocks so
> that the radar transmitter could not be turned on while someone was
> in the radome.

Hehe. For the the non-physicists, most radars radiate the same energy
that microwave ovens do. I once walked in front of a great big dish
on an RAF (Royal Air Force) base, and the sergeant accompanying me
chuckled and mentioned that if someone switched it on, we would be
fried. I didn't believe him at the time, but had it confirmed by an
engineer later (the dish wasn't actually connected up, however).

Of course, this is what the current fuss about mobile phones is based
on.

Thanks to you (Bob) and Marc for your interesting replies!

-- 
Nick Roberts