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From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Brownouts, shorts, explosions and the unix pc.
Message-ID: <599@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:03:19 GMT
References: <484@dmk3b1.UUCP> <1991Jan11.025038.11661@colnet.uucp> <37881@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan11.161417.4776@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:

>In article <37881@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>>White Sands Missile Range circa late '50s or early '60s: a soldier took a
>>shortcut through the "beam" in a multi-megawatt RADAR installation and keeled
>>over, and it wasn't apparent what happened until after the autopsy: certain
>>internal organs were cooked.  This incident is "rumored" to have been the

Sticking your hands in the beam was SOP when the DEW line was being built.
Those radars weren't quite so high powered, nor the beams so intense; and at
-50 to -60 C, a hand warmer is an intensely interesting proposition.
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