Re: FN-FORUM: Lunch (OT)

date posted 29th January 2005 13:08

On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 2:07 pm, Mark Vickers wrote:
> Funnily enough, the whole way microwave ovens were developed, was some =
guy
> in a research lab working on reanimation after freezing. He was using
> hamsters as his subjects - I guess they'd run out of idiot soldiers at
> Porton Down - and found that using an oven just wouldn't work: it heate=
d
> the deep-frozen hamsters from the outside and they just didn't like it.=
=20

The truth is somewhat more prosaic:
http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html