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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: gizz72 on September 13, 2004, 09:42:07 AM
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Greetings,
Does frequent exposure to mobile emissions are dangerous?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-13221330,00.html
Next time we see a mobile, I'll have a label "Keep out of Reach of children!" :-?
Regards,
Gizz
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I never knew frequent use of mobile phones can be dangerous to health. All I know is that it could blow up a gas refilling station and you could get killed with it by refusing to give it up to hold uppers! :-D( very common in our country, right sir gizz?!...) :lol:
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Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
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The answer is simple: WE DON'T KNOW. If there is an effect, it is bound to be very long-term, and very subtle. There are so many users out there that the statistics are beginning to look quite firm on this. Even the heart-wrenching story of the tumor 'caused by the mobile phone' is very likely no more than a case of very, very bad luck.
However, I am all for the idea of restricting the use of those dang mobiles: you cannot sit quietly in a public room anymore without someone's technological fetish performing a bad reproduction of a popular ditty. *And* then spending many minutes in a loud voice talking about who did it with whom, or discussing things which really should stay private (loans, medical reports, parole offenses).
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Like I said, you would all know the possible hazards you can think of on frequent use of mobile phones if you happen to be in our country where mobile phones are no longer necessity but part of our body. :-D You can never live in the Philippines without it. :-D
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Hehe. If we could just classify it as a toy, instead of a communication device, then they could be stopped! :-D
I have a cell-phone, I use it daily; both at work and for private matters.
Thing is that I actually have a phone. Most people have Gameboys with phone-capability built-in. :-x
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
Uh oh...
tis the only phone I got...
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
:roflmao:
I know the feeling!
I could tell you all stories of the idiots in LA who have these damn things surgically attached to their freakin' ears! (i don't mean that literally, of course. it just APPEARS like it because they seem to be using the darn things ALL the TIME!).
arg!
must leave for work - no time for stupid stories of morons!
:lol:
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
I have one. It would be your funeral ;-)
As it goes, despite owning one I totally sympathise with your view. I use it only when needed and still feel like a tit every time it rings :lol:
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
You're just jealous because you ain't as popular/important as they are :-P ;-)
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Hey Speel, Big Brother, Friends, Jackass and Britney Spears are popular. I think that says everything I think about popular things.
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Well... I am a "conscientious mobile owner." I never leave the house without silencing it.
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I want a GSM with a GPS. Or just an implanted GPS in my head or something.
I always get lost and stuff......
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KennyR wrote:
Hey Speel, Big Brother, Friends, Jackass and Britney Spears are popular. I think that says everything I think about popular things.
fair enough :lol:
But I think your view considering mobile phones is quite a bit exaggerated. Tis not all misery like irritating ringtones being played in the middle of a movie in the cinema, or during classes. I mean, I think it should be seen (and be used) as a usefull tool.
My mobile phone has shown me more than once being extremely usefull, especially outside home.
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
:-) YOU would probably want to do that even if they didn't want to use one.
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Not only do I hate cellphones, I hate phones period. You simply can't relax with a phone in the house, if it rings you either have to get up and answer it or listen to it ringing.
I tried going without phones at all and absolutely loved it. My wife put her foot down though. so we compromised. Our phone no longer rings, and the answering machine message warns callers of the fact.
I still don't use it though. Those that know me know that if they want to speak to me, they'll just have to stop by for a visit.
I don't know why I have this pet peeve, I just do. I just don't like being obligated by the desires of others to contact me.
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KennyR wrote:
Mobile phones are dangerous because I want to punch everyone who uses one.
I know how you feel Kenny.
If their phone has a built in camera, they`ll soon find out it can also double as an endoscope.
Ever tried to sleep on a train lately? as soon as it gets to 8am it sounds like dawn in the Amazon.
BTW, if mobile phones can theoretically cause explosions in petrol stations, why don`t they make us push our cars off the forecourt before starting the engine?
There`s gotta be a greater risk from the HT leads, starter motor etc than a piddly 3v phone.
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I've always had my phone on Vibrate Only. I hate ring tones.
-Edit- I should say the most usefull feature of a phone that vibrates rather than rings, is that I know if someone is calling me... but whoever I'm with does not... This can be VERY usefull in certain situations :-D
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T_Bone wrote:
Not only do I hate cellphones, I hate phones period. You simply can't relax with a phone in the house, if it rings you either have to get up and answer it or listen to it ringing.
I tried going without phones at all and absolutely loved it. My wife put her foot down though. so we compromised. Our phone no longer rings, and the answering machine message warns callers of the fact.
I still don't use it though. Those that know me know that if they want to speak to me, they'll just have to stop by for a visit.
I don't know why I have this pet peeve, I just do. I just don't like being obligated by the desires of others to contact me.
I totally understand that.
I know the reason for why I hate phones, it was always bad news when I was a kid. Like the neighbours phoning about that either their own or our cows had gotten outside the fence.Trying to chase cows back inside the fence in the middle of a foggy night is not pleasant, especially when the cows escape out into the woods. :-)
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Wasn´t there some mobile a while back that had a manfacturing fault in the battery which made the battery explode.
Now thats a useful feature, if you use this phone for longer than 3minutes it will explode Exactly whats needed. :-)
Oh and wasn´t NMT450 proved to cause damage to the eye, when used unresonably much? The retina came lose in the eye.
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Dan wrote:
Wasn´t there some mobile a while back that had a manfacturing fault in the battery which made the battery explode.
Yeah, that's a danger with Li-ion batteries. Their energy density is so high that if you short them, it produces an enormous amount of heat in a small time. And the battery electrolyte is lithium salts in ether. You don't have to be a chemist to see what can happen.
Thats why Li-ion are sold in very specialised battery packs with protection circuits all over the place to protect against shorts, overcharging, undercharging, etc... Hopefully in duplicate too, but you never know.
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They were dupes of Ericsson and Nokia batteries.
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Mobile phones are bad for all ages. Official documents on the health-risks are not going to come to light for some time, just as the tobacco industry could keep all research into smoking quiet for years, so too are telecommunications giants (who are even richer than tobacco companies) keeping any negative information quiet as long as they can.
But without a doubt prolonged usage of such a tiny device as a mobile phone can cause eye-strain and RSI, even if they don't give you brain cancer.
Youngsters are easy targets for advertisers, so there are many negative social (as opposed to medical) effects of mobile phone usage too.
@KennyR: On your opinion of popularity: I could not agree more.
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If the vocabulary typically used in texting is anything to go by, mobile phones probably cause CJD :-)
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mikeymike wrote:
If the vocabulary typically used in texting is anything to go by, mobile phones probably cause CJD :-)
:lol:
I've seen some examples of the language used by English-SMSing kids. And I worried about the Swedish kids... :roll:
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bloodline wrote:
I've always had my phone on Vibrate Only.
those things need to vibrate more powerfully. :lol:
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EW!
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cecilia wrote:
those things need to vibrate more powerfully. :lol:
Does that explain why you don`t answer your phone?
I called 38 times yesterday, and it just rang and rang and rang... ;-)
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Doobrey wrote:
cecilia wrote:
those things need to vibrate more powerfully. :lol:
Does that explain why you don`t answer your phone?
I called 38 times yesterday, and it just rang and rang and rang... ;-)
was it good for you? :-D
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cecilia wrote:
those things need to vibrate more powerfully. :lol:
hope yours is waterproof, otherwise it'd be quite painfull methinks, especially when the battery is fully charged (or is that the particular effect you want to achieve?)
-ignore me-
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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
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No wait, apparently, they're good!! (http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1113602004)
(Though this is a minority opinion. Still, shows how you can spin anything, and that proves that global warming is both: a) not happening, b) good for you).
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cecilia wrote:
was it good for you? :-D
Yeah, you could say I got a buzz out of it :-P
Cue the rimshot and tumbleweed...
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hope yours is waterproof, otherwise it'd be quite painfull methinks, especially when the battery is fully charged (or is that the particular effect you want to achieve?)
-ignore me-
Then again some people swear by electrical stimulation.......
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FluffyMcDeath wrote:
No wait, apparently, they're good!! (http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1113602004)
(Though this is a minority opinion. Still, shows how you can spin anything, and that proves that global warming is both: a) not happening, b) good for you).
They it must be genius to wrap a highpower LW-transmiter antenna around ones head and start transmitting.
If you disable the safety mechanism on the microwave and put it on your head you will become the FrankEinstein.
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T_Bone wrote:
Not only do I hate cellphones, I hate phones period. You simply can't relax with a phone in the house, if it rings you either have to get up and answer it or listen to it ringing.
I tried going without phones at all and absolutely loved it. My wife put her foot down though. so we compromised. Our phone no longer rings, and the answering machine message warns callers of the fact.
I still don't use it though. Those that know me know that if they want to speak to me, they'll just have to stop by for a visit.
I don't know why I have this pet peeve, I just do. I just don't like being obligated by the desires of others to contact me.
:bump:
Someone here has just requested my phone number saying he'd like to talk to me about something, and I told him I didn't have a phone. I don't know if he believed me, but if he sees this, maybe it'll help. :lol:
(that answering machine is gone BTW, my wife now uses her work cell exclusively)