(April 22, 2019 at 7:33 am)popeyespappy Wrote: Because microwave ovens weren't little things back in the early 60's when Penzias and Wilson first figured out it wasn't pigeon shit.
When microwave oven was an esoteric and futuristic concept, the US decided to build a chain of exceptionally large and powerful radars in the Canadian tundra to warn of the approach of any soviet nuclear armed bombers in the event of WWIII. The crew manning theses radars found the best way to warm up in their frigid and desolate duty post during long arctic winter was go out from their monitoring sheds, climb up into the radar antenna, and stand in front of the transmitting horn at Thebes focus point of the radar antenna.