Corrected entry: Loads of people stand around the microwave emitter when it turns on and instantly vaporises all the water in the vicinity. Humans are something like 80% water - they would have perished as soon as the machine did its trick.
Daria Sigma
20th Jun 2005
Correction: If the microwaves were "aimed" (downward in the case of the movie) they would not affect the people standing nearby.
John Pilge