[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

[Fyron]

There are no health risks with cellular phones. They do not transmit any radiation with enough energy to cause any mutations of DNA at all. It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so. People in general are stupid and worry about everything.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so.

as far as we know.

[Fyron]

Which we do know for a fact. EM radiation has to be in the x-ray or smaller range of wavelength, or be operating at many orders of magnitude greater in energy than cell phones operate at, to even have a chance of mutating DNA.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

what about prolonged exposure?

besides, we don't know everything that can go on in a cell, how do we know it can't?

but all that is beside the point. simply study the incidentes of brain cancer in cell-phone user's versus non.

[Atrocities]

I don't know if cell phones cause cancer, but I do know that they do cause retardation in drivers who use them while driving.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I don't know if cell phones cause cancer, but I do know that they do cause retardation in drivers who use them while driving.

Well that is from distraction, not from anything harmful from the cell phone itself.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
what about prolonged exposure?

Prolonged exposure to something that can never induce mutations does not matter. It will not cause mutations over a long period either.

[ January 02, 2004, 20:13: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Prolonged exposure to something that can never induce mutations does not matter. It will not cause mutations over a long period either.

i say we hold a kangaroo court and charge you with overuse of the definitive article.

yeah, i know the word 'radiation' tends to induce paranoa. but a study wouldn't hurt. like i said, we don't know everything about cells.

[Atrocities]

Cell phones are evil and evil things cause cancer. (According to Rossie O'Donald.)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

dna causes cancer. dna must be evil.

[Atrocities]

You must be right Narf, DNA made Rossie fat, no wait, that was the spoon. Man I am so confused! Does Rossie use a cell phone? Perhaps that would explain it.

Back in 1986/87 I wrote an essay on things that would happen in the next 20 years. I had to do it as a final for my writing class. I still recall everyone laughing at me when I read it.

I said that by 2000 everyone would have hand size wireless phones. Laughter.
That money would be phased out by credit card type system. Laughter
That Communisium woud fail.
Another shuttle disaster (Actualy I said two and we still have 3 years to go)
Lawsuites agaist Tabocco, Firearm, Car, fast food, and Porn industries alleging damages and other tort thingys.
I also predicted the escalation of youth violence.

These all seemed like likely things to happen in the future.

I also mentioned computers, satellite tv and radio, war in the middle east - Over oil, and increasing terrist attacks here in the US.

That was 16 years ago, and I had no crystal ball to see the future. Like I said, these were things that logic dictated would come about. Technology improves, people still get angry, and lawyers will sue.

I now predict that in the next 20 years, lawyers will sue the Cell phone industry for causing cancer.

That Microsoft will loose it standing in the PC industry as something better comes along.

That as population continues to climb, we will see an increase in the reductions of our rights.

SE V will be a smash hit and sell well for years.