“This is almost certainly not it, but we sent a grad student to check it out and he hasn’t returned, so we can’t rule it out….”
I’m reminded of the toilet incident that caused a power plant explosion
I'm just here to tag in @cosmicrami.bsky.social because FRB drama 😁. You're an absolute legend and an inspiration mate.
Nr. 2, the microwave, screwed with an australian radio telescope long long ago. They ended up asking the people in the near by town to refrain from using a microwave for a week, for a certain timeframe each day. That's why the german radio telecope "Effelsberg" was build in an empty valley.
Randall. <Cary Grant pointing gif, “Get out”> No joke, @todlauer.bsky.social was the Astronomer who showed me the grape plasma in the microwave trick at KPNO in ‘94.
Where I used to work the WiFi would cut out the same time every day, always when one of the staggered shifts were on lunch. Turned out, if two or more of the 5 microwave ovens in the canteen were one at once they would constructively interfere and block the 2.5GHz bands.
...how big is the break room!?
Title text: "Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard."