> =A0I've just been sent a little movie cliplet, where 5 geeks and a geeket=
te
> place 4 mobile phones set at 90 degree angles so North/south, East/West o=
n
> the table with aerials pointing towards a cluster of unpopped corn in the
> gap in the middle. The fifth person then phones the phones and the corn
> starts popping before your eyes.


I'd say that it is fake.
I started off to say "has a very low probability of being genuine" but
its' lower than that.
Essentially zero.
- =A05 to 20 Watts (say) does a very poor job of heating up anything
distributed and air cooled.
- Pop corn takes a significant time to heat and needs oil or similar
to couple the energy well.
- Coupling RF to anything well in the environment described is unlikely.
- Place same amount of oiled popcorn in a 500W ++ microwave oven on
full power with resistive coupling sheet under it. How long does it
take to start popping?
My 600 mm solar dish will do it :-).
My yet to be commissioned 1.8m solar dish ...

=A0Russell

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