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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should Know?

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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com. Sometimes science goes too far,

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Speaker 1: dog matters twisted but true. Wednesday's at ten on Science. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant. Say, hey, Chuck, Chuck. That makes the stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know. It's such an old joke. Yeah, terrible,

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Speaker 1: It's still It's got a lot of little staying power

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Speaker 1: and little else. It has as much staying power as

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Speaker 1: cat urine. Chuck, you want to hear the history of

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Speaker 1: the microwave? Woman? I love in forty seconds or less?

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Speaker 1: All right back in, a guy named Percy Spencer was

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Speaker 1: touring the labs of the Raytheon Corporation when he passed

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Speaker 1: by a magnetron. If he had unpopped popcorn in his pocket,

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Speaker 1: then I'm leaving right now. We'll get to that. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't count against my forty second I thought, like popcorn

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Speaker 1: popped in his pocket? No, he had a chocolate bar

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Speaker 1: in his pocket and it melted, And he's really, what

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Speaker 1: spectacularly by getting a pot and a raw egg and

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Speaker 1: holding it near the magnetron, and it exploded into his

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Speaker 1: buddy's face. Anyway, he figured out he was producing microwaves. No,

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Speaker 1: he lived to be an old man, but he figured

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Speaker 1: out that this was producing microwaves, and he um put

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Speaker 1: it in an invention. So everybody has a microwave oven

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Speaker 1: today has a tiny magnetron in their house. He put

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Speaker 1: it in an invention. Yeah, that's a unique way of

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Speaker 1: saying that look good for him. Yeah. Anyway, the point

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Speaker 1: this discovery was made. And the Raideon Corporation was largely

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Speaker 1: a government funded outfit, so we would call that a

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Speaker 1: government experiment of sorts. It's not the craziest though, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: Not not even close. No, you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: some crazy government experiments, maybe five of them today. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like a great idea. All right, let's do it, man.

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Speaker 1: This is written by Robert Lamb with stuff from the

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Speaker 1: science Lab we should point out. Yeah, I hope we're

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Speaker 1: not stealing this article. Is here gonna do this at

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Speaker 1: some point I didn't even ask him. I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: the first one here, Josh about transplanting heads onto other bodies,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Yeah, because think about it, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: think about the applications of this. I mean, like, technically,

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Speaker 1: if you don't look at it as a head transplant,

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Speaker 1: find out when the people right in um the but

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Speaker 1: this is something that we could definitely use if we

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Speaker 1: could attach the spinal cord. Uh yeah, I cannot. Is

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Speaker 1: that the thing that's holding it back? Well, that's the

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Speaker 1: thing that keeps the result from being a quadriplegic. Oh

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Speaker 1: what they said that applications. Maybe if someone just wants

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Speaker 1: it that e readers that read things to you out loud, Chuck.

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