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To: rf_hombre who wrote (2518)	1/15/2001 9:05:53 PM
From: S100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

"eye in a head has no special absorbing mechanism" I spent many years around microwave equipment, some low power test equipment (HP made the best test equipment back then except for oscilloscopes) and lots of high powered transmitters. The first warning every one received was "Do NOT look down a waveguide", next was to keep out of the main beam of the antennas. Waveguide warning was even for very low power test equipment in a lab. I was under the impression that the eye can "cook". Many tests seem to be done on the eyes of rabbits. US radiation limits were about 10 times higher than the Russian limits. Russia seemed to be looking for strange behavior, not just actual physical problems. US found the power that would cause damage and scaled it down to set the limit. One friend of mine was working on shipboard and noted that he was feeling warm. Then realized he was standing in front of an fighter plane with it's search radar on. Many people spent years working in and around high power transmitters, megawatts peak pulse power, average power much lower. No big health problems seemed to result, death rate was normal, one per person. Is the eye really "watery" inside? Seems to be a rather thick fluid.