Please note that you are more transparent to some wavelengths than others. E.g. the water heating microwaves are particularly nasty. But you might be transparent to others (e.g. XRay, Warning: that's ionizing so unsafe)

[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

First paragraph is entirely nonsense, second paragraph is more accurate.

EM/matter interaction is what you are concerned with. The type of interaction is dependent on the substance and the frequency of the EM field. It's perfectly possible to have extremely high amplitude radiation with no interaction, so the idea that you would get "cooked" regardless is complete nonsense.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve stood in front of high powered radars. They don’t do anything to you. Also my radar operated in the microwave band at about 1/3 the power of this navy one. So if mine did nothing to me i doubt the navy one would do anything.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They probably use a frequency that does virtually nothing to humans then. The power feed may feature additional modes that are less safe to be fair.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It uses a low L band frequency so as i said in my first comment, not harmful to humans and for sure isn’t going to vaporize you like op said.

If you’re touching the radar while it is transmitting you’ll probably receive an RF burn for your troubles but otherwise it should be fine.