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    Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months

    A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains

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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/14/09

    In reply to How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains
    The changes in the brain are due to the intense spike in linguistic creativity. Constant, fast-paced language without any visual cues requires much more interpretation than face-to-face conversation. #cellphones
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    11/14/09

    In reply to How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains
    If the phones mess us up by us placing them up against our ear, what would happen if we implanted them inside ourselves and have them closer to our brains? Wouldnt that put more radiation closer to our brains? Or would there be a ultra low radiation model implanted? #cellphones
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    Image of jseifer16 jseifer16
    11/14/09

    @KTK1990: Quick correction, your idea is good except cellphones don't exactly emit "radiation," but just radio waves from the electromagnetic spectrum. Radiation if the emission of particles from a decaying atom.
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    11/14/09

    @jseifer16: Alternating electromagnetic fields are still radiation. Up to ultraviolet light frequencies (300nm?) it's non-ionizing and doesn't have the biological effects associated with higher frequency ionizing radiation like x-rays and cosmic rays. But it's still radiation. #cellphones
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    11/14/09

    @KTK1990: Let those guys argue about what is and isn't radiation.... I think you are asking about the risk of putting cell phones closer to your brain: That's a good point! However, it would matter where the antenna is. You could have the entire phone embedded in you and have the antenna external so that the majority of the nonionizing electromagnetic radiation is further away from the body. #cellphones
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/14/09

    In reply to How Cellphones Are Changing Our Brains
    This is why, no matter how crazy it looks, I use my iPhone headphones 95% of the time when making a call. Strive to keep the phone away from your precious people! #cellphones
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    11/14/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: It just sits in your pocket, right next to your balls, right? #cellphones
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    11/14/09

    @Sam: Hahahha, I knew someone would misinterpret my statement that way.

    But to answer your question, no. I take advantage of 'intensity' as it relates to the electromagnetic spectrum and keep the phone on a Contour Showcase hip holster (as geeky as it may be). Plus, my hip muscle/connective/nervous/epithelial tissue helps attenuate the signal before its reaches the ball of Krypton. #cellphones
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    11/14/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Just the one ball? Have you already irradiated the other one to oblivion? #cellphones
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/14/09

    @I-Love-Gizhacker: HAHAHAHAHHA! Good catch on the typo. #cellphones
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/14/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Also, if you are the son of Krypton... Why is your phone so near to your dear fathers ball...? You know what. Never mind. I don't need to know. #cellphones
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    10/15/09

    In reply to Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months
    Scanners, X-rays, and the like scare me quite heavily enough already. I had to get a mouth x-ray semi-recently, and I think I asked the radiologist if it was safe about ten times before I went ahead with it.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    10/15/09

    In reply to Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months
    is this one of those "no harm no foul" situations?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    10/15/09

    In reply to Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months
    Didn't someone notice an uptick in the dosimeters?
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    10/15/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_I'mMonkeypig: The control Dosimeters would be on the outside next to the control console.
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    10/15/09

    @♠ Final ♠ is Soylent Green now.: Exactly. #ctscanradiationoverdoses
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    10/15/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_I'mMonkeypig: It's on the other side of the shielded wall so it wouldn't effect the dosimeter. #ctscanradiationoverdoses
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    10/15/09

    @♠ Final ♠ is Soylent Green now.: Wouldn't the residual radiation in the room after the shot be picked up when the tech enters? #ctscanradiationoverdoses
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months
    Who ever in the hell was their Physicist was needs to be fired because that should have been caught way before then. On average you're getting a years worth of radiation for a head CT and 2 and a half years worth of background radiation for an abdominal study in the course of 10 seconds to 15 minutes and that's for a normal dosage.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Everyone save yourselves! Throw away your cell phones. Smash them! We'll go back to using public payphones. They're much safer...
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    Image of yeti yeti
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Why is it that people are afraid of cellular frequencies, but not bluetooth?
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    09/09/09

    @yeti: I have a spectrum analyser for 2.4GHz radio bands and I checked out some BT gear on it... Wi-fi is pretty weak compared to a cel phone, but compared to Wi-fi, Bluetooth barely shows up as a smattering of background noise.

    So I'd wondered the same, but looking at it, BT is really negligible. You will literally get more radiation in the same frequency band by standing in the same room as a properly working microwave oven while using it.
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    Image of Bandit Bandit
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    The incidence of cancer in our world is WAY up over the historic rate. And cancer is virtually unknown in undeveloped areas of the planet. Coincidence?
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    09/09/09

    @Bandit: I think you have to account for differences in life spans and detection rates if you want to compare the "developed" world to other areas or historical rates. If you don't have CT scans, MRIs, constant mammograms, colonoscopies, and prostate exams, you aren't going to realize/record that what killed someone was unchecked cancer. And, if you're dying because of bad water, bad nutrition, constant warfare, etc, you're less likely to live long enough to get cancer. For all we know, "old age deaths" from times before x-rays, proper autopsies, and the like could actually be cancer deaths.
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    10/06/09

    @kagekiri: +
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    Image of FuzzysFriedChicken FuzzysFriedChicken
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    The SAR limit is in the US is 1.6 W/kg averaged over 1g of tissue. Everywhere else in the world it is 2.0 W/kg averaged over 10g of tissue. The US has the most strict standard in the world.
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    Image of wkm001 wkm001
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    I don't understand the units of measurement. Watts/Kilogram. Who gives a shit how much the phone weighs. The radiation is the only thing you care about.
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    09/09/09

    @wkm001: The measurements relate to the Watts of energy absorbed per kilo of body tissue. It has nothing to do with the phone weight.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    09/09/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: You handled that much more politely than I ever could have.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    More frightening to me is that every woman I know (including myself), at one time or another, carries her cell phone in her bra.
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    Image of Scott Jackson Scott Jackson
    09/09/09

    @Curves: do you mean every fat woman you know? Because the only women I know who do that are big girls.
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    09/09/09

    @Scott Jackson: Surprised you know any women at all.
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    Image of madog madog
    10/06/09

    @Curves: ++ rebuttal.

    Since I'm married I am developing some "man cans", however I would personally rather have a tumor on my breast than on my brain. Also, did it state it was a constant radiation, or was it while the device is being used? I could see smartphones giving off more than others with wifi/3G/GPS and the like being accessed more frequently and also while calls aren't being made.

    Then again, if your friends can talk on their phone while it's in their bra... bravo.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Can you hurt me now? - Verizon's original slogan.

    (No wonder they have better coverage, all that power frying your cells...hence cell-phone...)
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    09/09/09

    In reply to A Guide to Cell Phone Radiation So You Don't Fry Your Brains
    Great, I keep mine in my front pants pocket, does that mean Mr. Happy is gonna be Mr. Tumor?
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    Image of madog madog
    10/06/09

    @maven2k: I suppose that depends if there is enough tissue there for it to be a problem.

    Wakka wakka! (I kid!)
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