Scarey mobiles

Anyone got a whole stack of mobile phones so they can give this a ago - scarey stuff!!!


http://sorisomail.com/email/1963/como-fazer-pipocas-com-telemoveis.html

are those the old style mobile phones that were suppose to fry your brains?

Good pub trick if it works!

Okay so what have they done to the newer mobiles then - to make them safer? (Glad I don't use one now! Well got one for emergencies but can't remember the last time I used it.)

Well, physics is not one of my strong subjects. I do know that they emit radio waves (and resultant magnetic fields). These can affect various cells in your body, particularly near where you hold or keep the phone. The actual effects on various cells aren't clearly understood yet (or maybe they are and I just haven't read about it yet), but mobile phone manufacturers were forced to reduce the amount of radio waves emited quite dramatically as a result of many health scares.

Don't worry, my flat mate has her mobile phone practically surgically attached to her ear and she hasn't gone out like a popcorn yet!

wonder what her brain looks like

I'm not sure she's got much brain left Harrie and I don't think she's too bothered either. She's too busy boozing. I dunno, kids today.. tusk tusk!

Might be all the alcohol that keeps her head from exploding, who knows

Mmmmm - fried pickled brains!

OK you do know that the clip is fake .. right?

It was made to advertise something ... but I forget what

If you google you'll find loads of clips of people trying to recreate the popping but nothing happens.

Ahhhh - ta Suz. I did say to OH is that for real!!! (Still don't trust mobiles tho or microwaves and I won't even sleep with an electric clock/radio near my head. I know I'm odd!)

No, I didn't know it was a hoax

I was going to ask a friend who works in the mobile phone industry about it. I do know there were some recalls for high sound wave emitions a while back (only a few were actually sold), but wasn't sure the frequency was anywhere in the right range to generate heat like a microwave.

What is the popping temperature of a popcorn anyway? I feel an experiment comming up on wave frequency and heat generation devices... a "mobile microwave device". I noticed that there is already a patent out for one.

Ahh Harrie, when you're held on to a rock by gravity, and that rock is spinning around a sun emitting huge amounts of radiation. Not to mention the radiation comming from the earth and space, you just wouldn't be able to sleep... oops, have I given you insomnia now?

This is coming from someone who says

"Well, physics is not one of my strong subjects."!

eeeek what is your weak subject?

"The Pineal Gland is a magneto sensitive organ, what means that it is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (EMF). It is sensitive to electromagnetic waves from
· computer monitors,
· cellular phones,
· microwave ovens,
· high voltage lines,
· etc..
Electromagnetic fields suppress the activity of the Pineal Gland and reduce melatonin production. EMF also affect serotonin."

Harrie, that just sounds like you're going to have trouble getting to sleep and being happy clappy. I'm sure there are drugs you can take
for that! Same sort I recommended for Joy

Arsenalno9, Well that's just common knowledge. I also come from a family of nerds; 2 brothers are engineers (material, design and mechanical engineers), sister is an accountant/finance and I'm a computer scientist (if you can call it a science, it's just a lot of faffing about really)

Aside from physics, I'm pretty bad at languages, literature and music. Oh and computer networking and I was always the last one picked for sports teams I would be one of those bloopers on X-factor. Pehaps I should enter next year with a song about "gravity getting me down"