If I person could fit into a microwave oven, with the oven set on
high, how long until that person is seriously injured, and then how
long until he/she is dead?

I think this would be abou

No large-scale clinical trials have been conducted to date.  Thinking
of starting a tanning salon?

           -welte-ga

Not sure about serious injury or death, but I would have Hot Pockets
in about two minutes.  :-)

Good question!!!

I have no idea but I bet it would hurt like H_ll

Steph53

4 min 30 secs to injury

15 minutes would be fatal

at 24 minutes turn them over

36 minutes, and they're done

I'll bet the most painful part is getting all those holes poked in you
with a fork so that you won't explode.

It depends on the rating of the oven.

Some commercial microwave ovens used in the plastics industry are big
enough to walk into and the door has a handle on the inside

http://www.amasci.com/weird/microexp.html

For some reason this reminds me of that old joke: How do you get six
elephants into a Volkswagen?




Three in the front seat and three in the back.

Kemlo, thanks for the very interesting link, although it kind of takes
the fun out of amateur speculation.
I was thinking along Pinkfreud's line, but the link clarified that the
cooking is just well under the surface, not in the middle, as I had
thought, which is not so attractive, ...  I won't explode with heart
and lung expansion, just simmer under the surface - alive to ... words
fails me.  But maybe, since the old pump is still going, the heat will
be distributed  - it will, no maybe.  But with what consequences? 
"Medium" through and through?

Whatever, I won't be kosher cooked, unbled ... 

Shades of St. Laurence, who was grilled and said to have told his tortures:
"I think I'm done on that side, you can turn me over."

Humans are too big to fit in a microwave, and too valuable. In theory,
tests could be done on animals.. they are small enough to fit. (yes
the animal lovers will kill me) but if 50 animals died, to save the
lives of millions of people? I think it is valuable research.. we
could learn more about radiation, and protecting ourselfs.. if not
from sun exposure, then nuclear blasts?

yo man that was the dummest question....man you gotta grow up now
ok....no heartfellings

great spelling cangri-ga

Death By Microwave
http://www.urbanchillers.com/truehorrors/truehorrors.asp?th=3

Never enter a microwave oven without your Faraday Cage.

Do you want to put somebody in a microwave oven?!

The only thing I know that has any relation to this is, if you put an
ant in a microwave, it is small enough to run between the gaps of hot
and cold waves (the whole microwave isn't subject to heating waves -
thats why the plate rotates) so in theory it should be fine and non
crispy. Don't try it though - poor little ants.

Recent research has shown that contrary to popular opinion and
misguided opinion an ant, no matter how small, or agile, cannot and
will not survive the climate of a microwave on instant cook. To all
the nature lovers out there, don't worry, it was a bad and evil ant.
It deserved to die.

For the curious ones out there, it survived for approximately 0.23
seconds according to my timex stopwatch on instant cook in a sharp
carousel microwave 1200 Watt.

Proteins begin to denature ('cook') at about 40-42 degrees C.  Once
your proteins start to denature, you are getting seriously injured. 
If enough denature, you die.  So here's what you do to find out how
long it would take to cook a human to death, using your microwave and
a bunch of big chunks of meat from your grocery store:

You take a one-half pound piece of meat, stick it in your microwave on
high, and cook it until you start to smell meat cooking or see browing
in any parts.  Write down the time it took for that to happen.

Then you take a one-pound piece of meat and do the same thing.

Then you take a two pound piece of meat and do the same thing.

Then you take a five pound piece of meat and do the same thing.

If you can fit it in your microwave, try a ten pound piece of meat too.

Then you make a graph of 'time to start cooking' vs 'weight of the
meat'.  Draw a line connecting your data points.  Now extend the line
all the way up to the weight of the person you want to microwave to
death (bigger people will take more time).  Make note of the time
needed.

Note that the thing that generates microwaves in your oven is a
'magnetron', the same thing used since about WWII for 'radar'.  In
fact, Microwave ovens were invented by a postwar radar researcher at
Raytheon named Percey Spencer who supposedly figured out the idea when
he noticed that a nearby radar unit melted a candy bar in his pocket. 
So rather than trying to stuff people into your microwave oven, you
could just get hold of a big radar dish and point that at your noisy
neighbors until they go quiet.