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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #45 on: November 08, 2010, 11:49:13 AM »

I don't understand how somebody telling you something affects the properties of microwave radiation. Then again, I'm not a medical student. 8)
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #46 on: November 08, 2010, 11:54:58 AM »

Neil: taught us about cancer.

Nick: cancer doesn't happen because cells are heated up. It requires genetic mutation and it isn't know (though highly unlikely due to other research) how the types of waves used in mobile phones will affect cells. Though, as I said, it doesn't look likely that they can.

Also, I didn't know they used microwave radiation. Are you sure?

I'm not a medical student either :)
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #47 on: November 08, 2010, 11:57:23 AM »


I'm not a medical student either :)

Fuck.  I was relying on you to supply me with drugs in a few years.
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #48 on: November 08, 2010, 12:06:50 PM »

Nick totally just changed what he said.

And hopefully some time before I die I will be a doctor! Not sure if it'll happen in your lifetime, though :|
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #49 on: November 08, 2010, 12:09:27 PM »

 :lol:  Don't worry about that - I'm living to be over 100 like my granny.   :-P  I will be around to plague you for prescription drugs for years.
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #50 on: November 08, 2010, 07:25:34 PM »

That's a very bold claim to make. I was under the impression that the technology that transmits voices through the air is the same as that which heats up (and ruins) last night's leftovers. Microwaves can pick and choose what they heat up?

Lights can't choose what they illuminate, therefore my laptop screen is a laser gun.  PEW PEW PEW.

On a related note, it's made of metal and plastic, like the AUSteyrs our brave boys are shooting ragheads with.

Claiming mobile phones give you cancer therefore makes you a terrorist.  Why do you hate freedom?

Ok, yes, scaremongering about stuff like that could be said to actually make you a terrorist, but nevermind.
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #51 on: November 09, 2010, 10:28:25 AM »

I don't think so, Nick.

Fairly sure I was told by a professor/doctor at some point that it was very unlikely that phones can give you cancer. It was probably by the person that taught us cancer, now I think about it.

Though it is early days and knowing the effects are hard to determine and will take years to know, but I'm on the 'stop fear mongering' bandwagon.
...if you call 20 years of studies 'early days' I guess.

I have found that if you say the word 'radiation', people get all excited, and they believe the world is coming to an end. I can only put this down to the media's use of the word with regard to nuclear fuel/power stations/bombs etc, when really they mean 'radioactivity'. There is no logic to it. There is no place in the universe you can go without being radiated by something, and those 'somethings' (x-rays/cosmic rays/gamma rays etc) are probably making you age or worse.

That's not to say it's safe to sit in a microwave oven. Those microwaves, although fairly harmless, are intense enough to heat stuff up in the confines of the oven. So you may not get damaged cell-wise or dna-wise, but your gonna get cooked. And the oven needs some shielding around it because otherwise you're gonna get interference on phones, alarm systems etc around the neighbourhood.

Transmissions from cell phones are in the same band or even lower band 400Mhz to 1.4Ghz. This is a very safe range, and is needed so that you can connect to a cell tower up to 5km away. Your portable phone, wireless internet router/printer etc operate at even higher Ghz, which is why their range is so weak. No-one seems to complain about those cooking your brain or other bits.
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Re: Stimulus: results
« Reply #52 on: November 09, 2010, 07:38:28 PM »

That's not to say it's safe to sit in a microwave oven.

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