I found this article today on engadget.com. Can't say I'm into all that techie stuff, but some of the comments people left were hilarious. I've included my favorites below.
If you happen to have say, 300
microwaves kicking around between you and your friends, it turns out that you'd have a large part of the ingredients necessary for a pretty substantial weapon. That is, according to two New Mexican inventors, who recently filed a patent for a "high-power microwave system employing a phase-locked array of inexpensive commercial magnetrons." Translated into English that basically means that these guys claim you can combine the magnetrons (the bits that generate the actual microwave that cooks your popcorn) from a bunch of consumer-grade microwaves and tweak 'em a bit to develop a megawatt-level
death ray, or in military/legal parlance, a "directed energy weapon system." Yeah, we've seen energy weapons (or
tools, if you prefer) before, but this is probably one of the first times that we've seen ordinary kitchen technology more complicated than a knife turn into a seriously lethal weapon.
I would like to echo the concern of others here and say that we can't let this technology remain in the hands of any Mexicans, be they New, Old or otherwise. I've severely burned the roof of my mouth on a surreptitiously over-microwaved burrito on more than one occasion, and I can only imagine the carnage a burrito whose refried core is superheated to plasma and launched in a projectile weapon.
The choice is clear. We must rid Mexico of these Weapons of Microwave Destruction.
OMG! Mexico has WMDs?!
Well at least we don't have to go overseas to institute regime change!
And, of course, we know exactly where they're located ...
The drawback of this weapon is that our enemies, once fired upon, will likley remain cold in the middle unless they're on some sort of giant battlefield turntable.
What? You've never jammed a pencil into the lid-lock on a Cuisinart, in order to fire "deli-copter death-blades" at your mothers-in-law?
Man! You lamos've never lived!
In other news, Costco and Sams Club have decided that they will stop selling the 300 and 500 packs of microwaves.
"299 Should be more than enough for anyone" Said the CEO of Walmart.
Mexicans have WMDs?? Let's bomb the shit of them for oil.... oh wait.
You've never jammed a pencil into the lid-lock on a Cuisinart, in order to fire "deli-copter death-blades" at your mothers-in-law?
The casualness with which you tossed out this comment leaves me somewhat concerned that you really have tried this.
And for Robby Stewart...
Now i get it , that's why hundreds of Imperial stormtrooper where buying microwaves on wal-mart and getting them to the soon-to-be fully operational death star.
