At the moment, the earth-observation satellites which employ microwaves generally use short-wavelength radiation, because this provides more detailed images.

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Radiation, which turns our cells against themselves, which recodes our very DNA. Radiation, which lives in our cell phones and microwaves and vegetables, which collects in glowing puddles of nuclear waste as the world settles into a crater-filled desert in the aftermath of the coming apocalypse.

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"What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain, " Black said.

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