Strange, but true: Scientists are planning to defrost 1,000-pound, 30-foot long giant squid in a microwave oven:
[S]cientists at the museum are considering using a giant microwave oven as a possible way to defrost the animal so they can study it.
The mammoth squid could not be left to defrost at room temperature because the process would take days, leaving the outside to rot while the core remained frozen, he said.
“There are certain microwave equivalents that are used by industry, for treating timber and the like, that we could probably fit this thing into,” O’Shea said. “But that is just one option.”
If TV and movies have taught me anything – and I’m not sure they have – it’s that radiation and giant, presumed-deceased creatures of the deep do not mix.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you if this thing gets up, grows 50 or 60 times, and eats Wellington.