Microwaves dont kill ants?...

[khappucino]

Actually, the wavelength of a microwave is bigger than you'd think. If you were to rig the microwave to operate with the door open, you could hold it open a little bit and the microwaves wouldn't escape. You could hold your hand over the opening and even the ones that weren't traveling vertically couldn't get out to heat your hand up.

Sucks, cause mutated ants sounds cool.

hehe although i bet some evanescant waves at the boundary could l still burninate you =) i think that you can still get some non TEM modes to propagate given the pretty big aperature in the vertical direction even with the door cracked a little bit, under such scenarios' TrogDor Comes out in the Night... and burninates the peasants.... :biggrin: