Poll: Why arn't you worried about cell phone radiation??

[ArkAoss]

Ok, I never thought much of it, and all despite the constant debate. But over the last few months, as the amount of equipment in my basement pc lab rose from 1 pc closed below the desk, and another open on top, 2 monitors, a single power strip and usb printer, to the other day:
3 pc's wide open,
2 power strips,
2 17 inch monitors,
cordless phone,
network hub, and cable modem thing.
I noticed that my cell phone, which used to get decent signal about a bar or 2, which was crisp enough for conversation. Now gets no signal, zilch.
I can get signal in the base ment/lower area of our mall in sears below/ behind the appliance deptartment. with my cell phone I mean.
Also I've been thru 2-3 cordless phones in that office, because the signal dies 5 ft from the base these are decent 900 mhz phones, that when the base is away from the pc's can give range into the back yard and beyond.
The reason I've been thru 3 cordless phones is because my impatient room-mate smash's them to bits when they stop working.

What I'm getting at is, if 3 pc's worth of emf can kill the reception of my cell phone, then that means it must put out about the equivelent when its sending right? If ohm's electronic law of what you put out , you use up is correct.

So is it really safe to keep that thing glued to my ears for half an hour to an hour chatting with my friend?

 

[warcleric]

Because my brain is fried already anyway.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

i like having a bunch of screens in front of me, its called getting a tan. i hate cell phones, im on my second phone, and they get smaller and smaller so that they are easier to drop and lose, i say its all a scam.....kill whitey.

 

[cxim]

Ark, your PCs & electronic stuff are not efficient transmitters, so you can not compare that power output to your phones power output in any reasonable manner, based on phone reception alone.

make sure the ground is good on your stuff ( as in the cases are well grounded ) ... that may or may not help with reception.

You can also try some cheap aluminum screens with Al frames, just big enough to lay on or cover the open cases, like go on trailers & RVs. That may cut the RF .....

 

[fdiskboy]

Because I still don't use/need a cell phone?

 

[ArkAoss]

yeah, but if they spew out enough emf UNCONTROLLED to neutrilize the cellulars Controlled signal, then I think it's reason enough to worry.


-Bigbootydaddy, your right, you know. Of course when they make the phones that are implanted in your ear, or under the chin, and you still looze it man, I don't think I want to know what you do, or where doing/smoking.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

i lost my ears in 'nam

 

[Bluga]

I've no cell phone. Really.

 

[Tauren]

Hey, we're all going to die someday anyway...so live life to it's fullest!

 

[Zenmervolt]

You get more radiation from TV and radio signals than you do from a cell phone. Besides, there has never been any proof that the radiation from theses devices is actually harmful, just because the electromagnetic fields from your computer interfere (sp?) with your cell phone does not mean that they are dangerous to you. Just food for thought, microwaves actually have a longer wavelength than VHF and UHF waves, which means that there is more danger in the television and radio signals passing through your body every day than there is from a microwave. (Unless of course you were somehow inside the microwave.) I figure that if a microwave isn't dangerous then a cell phone certainly isn't. Also I remember a 60 miutes episode about cell phone radiation and a scientist pointed out that the radiation emitted was non-ionizing, which meant that the radiation was incapable effecting any alteration in living tissue.

Zenmervolt

 

[SmiZ]

Well, I hope Zenmervolt is right, but something tells me that by the time we're all actually dieing that everything we ever came into contact with during our lives will have been linked to the cause one way our another.

Regardless, I rarely spend more than 5 minutes on my cell phone at a time. It is mainly for emergencies.

 

[Eug]

I'm not saying this is you, but I find that many people that worry about cell phone radiation have no qualms about going to McChokeandpuke to get bacon double cheeseburger, french fries, and a coke, while having a smoke.

Remember that the number 1 killer in North America is heart disease.

If you're gonna worry about something, you'd get more mileage out of worrying about your diet and how much exercise you get (which for me is very little at the moment ).

 

[RevVveD1]

Personally, I really like the pretty green glow I get when sitting in front of my pc's all day and talking on my cell phone. Saves me lots of money on light bulbs..

 

[bigbootydaddy]

yeah, i hated seeing stupid old ladies wearing surgical masks while driving around here in houston because they had those huge fires in mexico.

 

[ArkAoss]

OH. well, heres a little story about microwave raditation.
A good friend of mine, worked on a military instalation, one day while some of the people where inside calibrating a microwave satelite dish, a guy was out by the dish working too, he was kindof turned to one side, and he fealt like a heat wave on one side of his body, and when he looked at the dish, it had been aimed right at him. In a year, he died after suffering the effects of the failure of that side of his brain.

That's why they shield microwaves. But if you look inside, them things are very simple electrically.

 

[Descartes]

The reason why your every day household microwave is not harmful, is that the mesh you see in the glass on the front has holes small enough to be permeable to visible light, but not permeable to microwaves.

 

[guyver01]

he who dies with the most toys... is still dead.


We're all gonna die anyway and you can't take it with you... so spend so they cant!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Well my point about microwaves was that in the quantities most people recieve they are harmless. Standing in front of transmitter with the radiation aimed directly at you with enough strength to actually start cooking you is probably a little more than the average lifetime does of microwave raditaion. Anyway, cell phones don't use microwave and they don't transmit with enough power to be dangerous. CB radios transmit with much greater power (4 Watts vs a cell phone's 1.5) and there is nothing linking CBs to health problems. I still believe that I get more radiation from radio and television signals than I do from my cell phone. Anyway, I use my cell phone for all long distance calls and have routeinly spent 30-60 minutes on it at a time, I'll let you all know the second I get a tumor from using my cell phone. Don't hold your breath though.

Zenmervolt

 

[Train]

im gonna die from all the beer, sex, drugs, and radiation i get already anyways, so ahh who cares

 

[ArkAoss]

ahh thanks zmemner, thats one of the things that fascinates me about cancer, any thing can cause it. I have a cuz who has gotten 2 tumors, of a BONE type cancer, but they never grown on her bones.

 

[vi edit]

Something else is going to kill me first. Also, if I'm on my phone for more than a minute or two, I'll plug in my headset and keep my phone in my coat pocket. Not too many worries about radion there.

 

[Azraele]

I don't use cell phones so the radiation from them doesn't bother me

 

[Lumbee799]

I use a cell foam ever day and I use a ccll phome every hay and fill fine. I be not see what me probleebly be. I had has my pone for 38 yaers. I doos haves a big lumpy on me sides of me's head. Sometimss it bleedes and hurts byt i do nott worry. i like the infernets cuase the prexidently Al Gore made it.

 

[oldandquitemad]

Please ignore the spaz who just posted. He sits near me and is not to be trusted.

He is not well, but I don't think cell phone radiation has ANYTHING to do with it.

 

[ArkAoss]

then maybe, oldandquitemad, cell radiation has to do with why you havn't hit him yet? just a little joke