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Isn't it a part of a microwave. We had things that looked very similar in room last year (like 10?) and they told me it was part of a microwave.

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Yeah, that's a magnetron.
His new robot won't just retrieve your food, it will heat it up on the way.

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Looks like a microwave magnetron.

*edit* oops someone he beat me to it *edit*

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She's absolutely right. It's a magnetron.

So, what do you need that for?

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Cooking enemy robots... perhaps soldering on the fly?

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Obviously heating your donut while it delivers it to you. :cool:

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oh oh I know!!!! *feels special*

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Maybe for killing termites?

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A microwave works by exciting the h20 particles in the food creating heat.... so soldering is out.....thats why you cant heat a potato chip in the mircowave

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Microwaves also excite silicon carbide, thats how microwave crucibles work. A portable metal casting robot?

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A death-ray?

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Microwaves are built so that the magnetrons will not turn on with the door open, because the radiation is harmful to humans.

That being said, I'm going with Cody's death ray guess. ;)

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Not enough H2O in the air :(

There still should be enough water in the battery soln. to cook the robots... ;)

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Actually, we've been using microwaves for line-of-sight radio relay communications for quite some time now. Any time you see a radio tower that looks like the picture below, it's actually a microwave radio relay tower. Usually they are painted red and white.

(Actually, it was a technician who was servicing a magnetron that noticed that microwaves "cook" things, as his peanut candy bar became the first microwaved food. :yikes: )



So here's the question: is Tytus developing the world's first Vex space satellite? :eek: