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Wi-Fi Scare
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:47 pm
by ghhyrd
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/p ... 674675.stm
To take Aldos' job, seeing how he isn't doing it, how long has the whloe 'Wi-Fi' scare been kicking round?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:22 pm
by Hunter
I sleep about a metre away from my Wi-Fi router.

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:23 pm
by ghhyrd
Melty-brain?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:26 pm
by Hunter
* Haven't forgotten any HTML...
* Can still use any software I used before..
* Memory is even better these days
* Learning a language and starting to pick it up well.
So not melting..
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:33 pm
by ghhyrd
Hunter wrote:* Haven't forgotten any HTML...
* Can still use any software I used before..
* Memory is even better these days
* Learning a language and starting to pick it up well.
So not melting..
Either science is wrong, or you're thick (in the skull lol).
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:57 am
by Hunter
I also sleep with my cellphone.

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:02 pm
by karajorma
There's still not a jot of evidence that radio waves are remotely harmful in telephone masts so why would they be harmful in wifi?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:49 pm
by ghhyrd
Think of your brain as a Burito, and your Wi-Fi as a weak microwave oven, because that is basically what it is. Having your brain bombarded by high frequency (or ist it low? I can never remember) microwaves is basically cooking it. You will ruin that burito in a matter of time, if you leave it in there. But maybe this issue comes back to the old 'Blue and Red light' thing...
Or maybe this is a media sh*t-stirr and I am being obsessive again.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:40 pm
by Hunter
My router doesn't get used at night (it's usually left on, but nothing connected to it - and the computer in my room is connected to it with a wire, too)
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:14 pm
by ghhyrd
Hunter wrote:My router doesn't get used at night (it's usually left on, but nothing connected to it - and the computer in my room is connected to it with a wire, too)
That probably makes
some difference as to why you aren't a 'Burito brain', but who knows.

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:30 pm
by karajorma
ghhyrd wrote:Think of your brain as a Burito, and your Wi-Fi as a weak microwave oven, because that is basically what it is. Having your brain bombarded by high frequency (or ist it low? I can never remember) microwaves is basically cooking it. You will ruin that burito in a matter of time, if you leave it in there. But maybe this issue comes back to the old 'Blue and Red light' thing...
I might buy that argument if it weren't for the fact that your body replaces cells far too quickly for that effect to build up to any appreciable level.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:35 pm
by ghhyrd
Yep; The 'Blue and Red light' arguement.
karajorma wrote:ghhyrd wrote:Think of your brain as a Burito, and your Wi-Fi as a weak microwave oven, because that is basically what it is. Having your brain bombarded by high frequency (or ist it low? I can never remember) microwaves is basically cooking it. You will ruin that burito in a matter of time, if you leave it in there. But maybe this issue comes back to the old 'Blue and Red light' thing...
I might buy that argument if it weren't for the fact that
your body replaces cells far too quickly for that effect to build up to any appreciable level.
Does that include the brain? Or would it just build up cancerous cells in the brain?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 10:16 pm
by karajorma
true. The neurons in your brain aren't replaced except in certain areas.
But even then we still have the issue of exactly how much heating we're dealing with.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 10:24 pm
by CIH
the wifi revolution has yet to hit the Roanoke household...
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 10:48 pm
by ghhyrd
karajorma wrote:true. The neurons in your brain aren't replaced except in certain areas.
But even then we still have the issue of exactly how much heating we're dealing with.
Unfortunately this is true. We have no real idea whether or not the microwaves are enough to initiate the 'Red and Blue light effect'. But at least we can say that they are in someway harmfull, by logic, but not enough to melt your head upon activation. It's still a risk though....
Feel lucky Roanoke.