Comments on: What’s Cooking

By: Neil Dickson

Neil Dickson — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:24:47 +0000

Oh man, I laughed so hard. I knew, when you described these signals a short while ago, that something seemed mighty fishy, but this is way more hilarious than I could have ever guessed. I wonder if they’ll start putting the microwaves in their own shielded rooms now.

By: John

John — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:19:25 +0000

I thought perytons were something totally different 🙂 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton

By: Brian Koberlein

Brian Koberlein — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:08:15 +0000

So noted about the frequency typo and corrected. A radio quiet zone doesn’t mean you can’t use anything that creates electromagnetic waves, but rather that certain restrictions are placed on transmitters and the like. The microwave oven issue is an odd fluke.

By: James Harmer

James Harmer — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:12:39 +0000

Don’t you mean GHz or Gigahertz rather than MHz or Megahertz ?
Good luck heating your pop tarts at 2.5 Megahertz.

You also have to wonder at the mentality of people who let a Microwave oven into a supposedly “Radio Quiet” zone.
Haven’t they heard of cooking with gas? And with matches. Not those piezoelectric spark lighters.

By: Arturo Gutierrez

Arturo Gutierrez — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:41:11 +0000

would these radio telescopes be able to detect the signal from the astronomer’s cell phones?

By: geckzilla

geckzilla — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:22:35 +0000

Astronomers were the turkeys all along.