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The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by bayareanative »

linuxboxer wrote: post #4

Thousands of studies link low-level wireless radio frequency radiation exposures to a long list of adverse biological effects, including: DNA single and double strand breaks. Oxidative damage. Disruption of cell metabolism. Increased blood brain barrier permeability. Melatonin reduction. Disruption to brain glucose metabolism. Generation of stress proteins. Let’s not also forget that in 2011 the World Health Organiza…

It's not ionizing radiation AND it's low power. Stop spreading baseless FUD hysteria.

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by lighteater »

thoughtfunction wrote: post #10
linuxboxer wrote: post #4

Thousands of studies link low-level wireless radio frequency radiation exposures to a long list of adverse biological effects, including: DNA single and double strand breaks. Oxidative damage. Disruption of cell metabolism. Increased blood brain barrier permeability. Melatonin reduction. Disruption to brain glucose metabolism. Generation of stress proteins. Let’s not also forget that in 2011 the World Health Organiza…

You also get EM radiation from the electric wiring in your house, lightbulbs, the sun and so on. It's also about the strength of that EM radiation that determines is if it's harmful. To compare, your wifi router does a max of 4000mW transmission, which is 4W

The 50/60hz wiring radiation is a mild annoyance compared to 2.4 and 5Ghz wifi (I prefer 5Ghz because it seems to transfer less heat to my tissues); I sporadically use 4G on my phone so I don't need a permanent wifi installation in my room. Contrarily, I've found that staring into the sun, early in the morning for seconds up to a few minutes, is quite pleasant.

If 5G is much worse than 4G I'm literally getting lead-lined underwear. It's already a bother to keep my phone sufficiently far from my brain and balls while typing this comment.

Then again, my sensitivity is way too high. I can also feel whether my microwave is turned on through the wall!

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by jnsaff2 »

m0zg wrote: post #9

I'll tell you more. Earth is heated by an ongoing nuclear fusion reaction which emits a wide spectrum of radiation between 430-770THz. The radiation density during daytime is about 1KW/m^2, and some of it is proven to directly cause cancer. Is that "terrifying" enough?

The spectrum is much wider than that tho.

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by [deleted] »

lighteater wrote: post #12
thoughtfunction wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also get EM radiation from the electric wiring in your house, lightbulbs, the sun and so on. It's also about the strength of that EM radiation that determines is if it's harmful. To compare, your wifi router does a max of 4000mW transmission, which is 4W

The 50/60hz wiring radiation is a mild annoyance compared to 2.4 and 5Ghz wifi (I prefer 5Ghz because it seems to transfer less heat to my tissues); I sporadically use 4G on my phone so I don't need a permanent wifi installation in my room. Contrarily, I've found that staring into the sun, early in the morning for seconds up to a few minutes, is quite pleasant. If 5G is much worse than 4G I'm literally getting lead-l…

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Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by lighteater »

m0zg wrote: post #9

I'll tell you more. Earth is heated by an ongoing nuclear fusion reaction which emits a wide spectrum of radiation between 430-770THz. The radiation density during daytime is about 1KW/m^2, and some of it is proven to directly cause cancer. Is that "terrifying" enough?

There's a new male contraceptive, it's called "keep your phone in your pocket, next to your balls". Now with 10x the dose!

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by bayareanative »

m0zg wrote: post #9

I'll tell you more. Earth is heated by an ongoing nuclear fusion reaction which emits a wide spectrum of radiation between 430-770THz. The radiation density during daytime is about 1KW/m^2, and some of it is proven to directly cause cancer. Is that "terrifying" enough?

:) I used some of that free fusion power to charge my laptop around lunch time with 5W left over to trickle-charge a bank of 200 Wh SLA batteries. (100W panel + MPPT CC)

The sun does emit ionizing radiation, and that will hurt you with long-term, unprotected exposure, but worrying about non-ionizing radiation at very low-powers doesn't make sense when ionizing radiation from air-travel and radioactivity from concrete provide orders of magnitude more mutagenic micromorts than mobile signals ever will.

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by sytelus »

bayareanative wrote: post #11
linuxboxer wrote: post #4

Thousands of studies link low-level wireless radio frequency radiation exposures to a long list of adverse biological effects, including: DNA single and double strand breaks. Oxidative damage. Disruption of cell metabolism. Increased blood brain barrier permeability. Melatonin reduction. Disruption to brain glucose metabolism. Generation of stress proteins. Let’s not also forget that in 2011 the World Health Organiza…

It's not ionizing radiation AND it's low power. Stop spreading baseless FUD hysteria.

Non-ionizing radiation does not mean harmless radiation. Low power radiation could be quite harmful when exposure in 24x7 for long term. Power levels reduces probability of DNA damage but if exposure is long term then it’s cumulative effect.

People living near cell phone antennas have severe health issues and even phone companies don’t debate this. They are required to put health hazard warning around those antennas for certain perimeter and homes are not allowed to be built close to them. Unfortunately those limits are absolute bare minimum. There huge amount of “research” phone companies have funded to backup these minimum limits and no independent researchers would agree with it. For 5G, numbers of antennas are going to increase by 10X and if you live in city, there is very good chance you are not too far from it.

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by isostatic »

m0zg wrote: post #9

I'll tell you more. Earth is heated by an ongoing nuclear fusion reaction which emits a wide spectrum of radiation between 430-770THz. The radiation density during daytime is about 1KW/m^2, and some of it is proven to directly cause cancer. Is that "terrifying" enough?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99 Wear Sunscreen If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Sunscreen would be it The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists

Re: The Terrifying Potential of 5G

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Post by crooked-v »

lighteater wrote: post #12
thoughtfunction wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also get EM radiation from the electric wiring in your house, lightbulbs, the sun and so on. It's also about the strength of that EM radiation that determines is if it's harmful. To compare, your wifi router does a max of 4000mW transmission, which is 4W

The 50/60hz wiring radiation is a mild annoyance compared to 2.4 and 5Ghz wifi (I prefer 5Ghz because it seems to transfer less heat to my tissues); I sporadically use 4G on my phone so I don't need a permanent wifi installation in my room. Contrarily, I've found that staring into the sun, early in the morning for seconds up to a few minutes, is quite pleasant. If 5G is much worse than 4G I'm literally getting lead-l…

> I prefer 5Ghz because it seems to transfer less heat to my tissues

A single 60W incandescent bulb (which has about 10% efficiency for its lighting) transfers more heat to your tissues than a stack of 10 home routers.

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