Cooking an egg with 2 cell phones?

vetteguy

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I love this:
People should try to avoid use of cell phones. Although so far no one has proved the radiation from cell phones can cause something clinically significant. By the same token, there has been no one who can disprove the existence of such a risk.
In other words, anything that hasn't been proved also hasn't been disproved, therefore everyone should avoid doing anything that doesn't have 25 years of clinical trials behind it.

Also, you can "cook" an egg with a speaker playing heavy metal. OH NOES, t3h dangers of t3h devil's music@!!!@!!!
 

Mrfrog840

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the day I trust two Russians who look like they have been using meth for a couple years is NEVER
 

Descartes

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The study shows how scary cell phone radiation is. People should try to avoid use of cell phones. Although so far no one has proved the radiation from cell phones can cause something clinically significant. By the same token, there has been no one who can disprove the existence of such a risk.

Truly frightening "logic."
 

AMDMaddness

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A whole bunch of BS. I can put an egg directly infront of one of my cell sites antenna it will never cook or get hot and that is 40+ watts compared to 4/10th to 1 watt from a cell phone.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: hjo3
Didn't they already disprove this on Mythbusters?
They did have some episode where they tried to cook a turkey using large microwave or radio transmitters. Results: sunlight provided a better heating effect.
 

IGBT

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..short wave length rf radation causes moisture molecules to vibrate resulting in heat. It's how your microwave oven works.
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: DVad3r
Originally posted by: hjo3
Didn't they already disprove this on Mythbusters?

where?
My bad, it was an episode of Brainiac: Science Abuse. They actually used 100 cell phones; didn't do anything to the egg.
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: hjo3
Didn't they already disprove this on Mythbusters?
They did have some episode where they tried to cook a turkey using large microwave or radio transmitters. Results: sunlight provided a better heating effect.
Oh yeah, I remember that. They tried it on a naval vessel's radar too, right? Anyway, turns out I was thinking of Brainiac.
 

silverpig

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Haha, they said they used porcelain because it conducts heat well. It's a great thermal insulator.

And there's no way that would work. I can pretty much guarantee the egg will radiate heat faster at 5 degrees above ambient than the phones outputting 1 W of radiation could heat it.