Well, lucky for you a couple young Russians recorded their research before they presumably hurt themselves and were hospitalized, or maybe just became infertile -- or caused cataracts -- point is don't do it.
They've taken a magnetron out of a microwave, and tied a soup can to the side of it to focus the microwaves. After discovering this, they did the next logical step -- point it at various things and see what happens.
Plus, it makes a great Active Area Denial System!
"So, gloves?"
"Nope."
"Safety glasses?"
"Nope."
"Pants?"
"Why bother?"
"Ok, let's do this."
The sound in the background at 1:15 is a real artillery round landing. That’s been going on over a year and a half, so their cavalier attitude towards safety equipment around microwaved lightbulbs is understandable.
A shell lands close enough in this video to shake the camera: https://youtu.be/R3mImqlp3Gg?t=163
What the fuck.
Proxy war between the US/EU and Russia, what else?
They mention in this video that they live on the outskirts of Luhansk which declared independence from Ukraine in May of 2014. As you can see there are still active clashes between Ukrainian and rebel pro-Russian forces.
Amuse your friends! Irradiate your enemies!
I remember seeing this and wishing I could use it to disable Harley Davidsons at a distance.
This is becoming more of a thing, right? There have always been Harley's, but it seems like hipsters have picked this up as a replacement for fixies.
http://www.themotorcycleobsession.com/2013/07/praise-for-hipsters.html
The booming stereo Harleys is also growing around here, leading to the death of quiet.
I know that guy! What are the odds?
Antiaircraft defense tanks' radar is technically similar. And similar dangerous. Some soldiers exposed to it are known to be infertile and some also have died from cancer later.
So they're sat in a warzone putting out what looks like anti-air radar.
Actually that's the least of their worries.
Worst case, they're emitting 2Kw of power. Regardless of how powerful their magnetron, it will be emitting a CW signal. They're almost certainly emitting around 2Ghz.
A relatively weak CW signal somewhere around 2Ghz isn't likely to be confused for anti-aircraft radar. For one thing, microwave radars generally operate in the 5Ghz band. (That's one reason for -in the US- the DFS requirements for a big chunk of 802.11a space.)
Electromagnetic radiation is an invention of the devil - ban it now!
Well, they could just put their fingers into electric sockets, but this is more fun and at a much higher frequency. DZZZT.
Gauss-Schmauss, lemme just hold the light bulb in my hand inches from an exposed magnetron, what's the worst that could happen...
This kind of reminds me of the Radioactive Boy Scout kid, who built really neat and brilliant things, but didn't really think ahead to how much he might affect his health, and in that case the health of his neighbors and pets with his experiments (twice) :-) The coffee can seemed to pretty much reflect everything where they wanted it to go so I'm sure they're fine, and as Mariachi points out, I guess they have way bigger things to worry about anyway.