Oh, and I used to work with Microwave lasers.
We used to joke that we could heat up our lunch from across the room.
No joke. Two quick stories, one personal.
First, it was during microwave experimentation at Raytheon, IIRC, that the practical heating effects of microwaves were noticed, and a microwave oven devised.
Second, I knew a guy at a university who seemed to be a bit sluggish mentally, although he claimed quite an illustrious technical past. Then one day, he related a story: He was at a military base, and came into his office during lunch hour. No one was around. He sat down to work, and he felt really warm. He took off his jacket, loosened his tie, but he was still sweltering. Then, he said, "I looked out the window, right into a big radar dish, and figured out what was going on."
That's right... he was fried. It all fit.
Micro Waves are dangerous.
I know some retired ATT techs that used to work aloft on MW antennas back in the Long Line days and they would say sometimes they felt like their blood was boiling.
One of them was a MW tech while in the CG b4 ATT and he recently died from a very strange type of brain cancer and swore till the end it was from MW
Yep - it was the effects of folks walking in front of them that “discovered” their heating abilities....