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Interesting thing this morning. How is this possible?

I went to heat up some coffee this morning--and discovered there was a moth in the microwave. I told my son about this and mentioned I should "nuke" it to see what would happen, and he said he already did it last nigh--for two minutes. This moth was still alive, and didn't want to come out. Did he create Mothra or something? I am bewildered.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    the microwave heats things up by agitating internal water molecules moths and flys do not have enough water in thier bodys to create any heat

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe your microwave isn't working properly. Place an unbroken, uncooked egg in your microwave and turn the microwave on for five minutes. If the egg explodes after a few minutes, your microwave is okay. Maybe the moth was just looking for exploded eggs.

    Try banging the side off the microwave while it is on. The moth will fly around until suddenly it hits a hot spot and gets fried.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The moth may have just been lucky. If I'm not mistaken, there are dead spots in a microwave where the magnotron (I love that word) doesn't cause water molecules to vibrate. (That's why they added the rotating tray at the bottom, to cause all parts of your food to pass through 'hot spots').

    Maybe the moth was in a dead zone. That's my guess.

    Or else, yes, you created Mothra and it should be flushed right away.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If it hung anywhere but the center of the tray inside it won't be hurt. All of the waves are focused toward the center.

    Haven't you placed something in there and it was mostly toward the edges and it didn't heat up? That's the same thing.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, the same thing happened to me, I found some ants in my microwave and I zapped it for like 3 minutes, but it didnt die, bloody tough ants, if ya ask me.

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually, unfortunatly you probably just gave that poor old moth brain damadge and or cancer of the breasts and you don't even realize what you've done. You ot to be ashamed of your self!

  • 1 decade ago

    depends where the moth was. if its in the corners it wont get "nuked"

    it has to be in the center so its atoms or whatever can be sped up and heated.

  • 1 decade ago

    umm.... im thinking its like a cockroach cause i heard they can be in a microwave for up to 4 min. without dying.... so i really dont know.. is it still alive?

  • 1 decade ago

    Thats hilarious!! But those other answers seem to have it covered so I won't bother you w/another long response. Have a great day!!

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