And now for something weird...

shortbus

Joined Sep 30, 2009
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Yeah, but that wouldn't kill a hawk, would it?
It would cook it, if it landed on one of the repeaters at a busy time of calls. Wouldn't it? When they showed them on one of the Science shows working on cell towers for routine maintenance the first thing they did was lockout the power to the repeaters. To protect the guy working on it.
 

sagor

Joined Mar 10, 2019
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Cell towers run in the 3 kilowatt range for power, at frequencies close to microwave oven frequencies. Your microwave oven probably runs at around 1000W. My guess is that it got somewhat "cooked", especially in the brain area, and floundered and got tangled in the wires afterwards.
Those towers are not safe anywhere near those antennas. Once you get a hundred feet or more away from them, less risk...
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
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Cell towers run in the 3 kilowatt range for power, at frequencies close to microwave oven frequencies. Your microwave oven probably runs at around 1000W. My guess is that it got somewhat "cooked", especially in the brain area, and floundered and got tangled in the wires afterwards.
Those towers are not safe anywhere near those antennas. Once you get a hundred feet or more away from them, less risk...
Yet, birds nest in them.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://jalopnik.com/how-a-former-green-beret-black-roadie-cases-and-two-p-1840808674

Former Green Beret Highly Skilled at Difficult Extractions

The first reports we saw described an escape by instrument case from the house he was being held in. When we first heard these rumors we were awfully skeptical. Japan isn’t the kind of country you can just waltz out of. Aside from being a chain of islands, the country is not exactly known for having porous customs and immigration enforcement.

Now, though, it appears that some of the more far-fetched details have been confirmed, or at least clarified, by new reporting from the Wall Street Journal. A report the Journal published yesterday describes the plan to secret Ghosn out of Japan to Lebanon in greater detail than we had seen before, and even lends particular credence to the “musical instrument case theory” that has captured imaginations.
 
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