An animal filled a microwave antenna with over 300 pounds of acorns

[HMSGoose]

In related news, an animal filled a microwave with over 300 calories

[CLamb]

Well, yeah. That’s why the birds had the foresight to block the microwaves by filling the transmitting antenna up with acorns!

[nixiebunny]

Don’t worry about the animals being damaged by the radio transmitter. Odds are 50/50 that it was a receiving antenna, and even if it was a transmitter, the acorns closest to the feedhorn absorbed all the RF energy.

[flwyd]

Sure, go ahead and ruin that family’s Thanksgiving.

[shaddack]

@nixiebunny

Don’t worry about the animals being damaged by the radio transmitter. Odds are 50/50 that it was a receiving antenna, and even if it was a transmitter, the acorns closest to the feedhorn absorbed all the RF energy.

Whoever said that fried pigeons don’t fall from the sky obviously never served at a radar.

[chgoliz]

A pint a pound, the world round.

[chgoliz]

So glad you’re back! Seriously, it’s always good to have a technical explanation for things.

[shaddack]

I should write more wiki articles. It’s a great way to keep notes when satisfying a nagging curiosity, and the notes are then filed aside. And even if some wikihole comes and plows through them and removes the interesting info, it is still in the history to look up.

And sometimes you can find out that you wrote a piece of a book without knowing it…