Um, because they aren't the same thing at all, except to lawyers and those prominently wearing tinfoil?
Gamma rays kill you. The sun's rays don't. They're both radiation. Booga booga.
Posted on 01/23/2005 7:05:01 PM PST by aculeus
What about rf engineering?
Bill Gates put stainless steel plates around, on top of and everywhere on his new mansion. Like a Gaussian sphere - you can't beam in or out = great protection from most RF as in TV, Radio, Cell phone, Mobile radio and any other low level cosmic RF.
In our RF engineering test labs we had special rooms lined with copper and with soldered seams. You could blast away and not create anything in the way of interference.
Like radiation - rf is invisible and undetectable to the naked eye. But it's still there causing problems.
Maybe some people could go back to living in caves.
Several years ago, some bright politician introduced a bill in Oregon to ban electromagnetic radiation as a response to some of these wild theories. I went to the hearing expecting it to be laughed out of the committee. When it seamed like it might pass, I spoke up. I told the committee that sunlight is electromagnetic radiation and I know Oregon is short on that commodity, but I didn’t think they really wanted to ban sunlight. It was tabled for further study and died in committee.
"Bill Gates put stainless steel plates around, on top of and everywhere on his new mansion"
More likely to prevent electronic eavesdropping, than for health concerns.
Those rooms were there to calibrate receivers away from the ambient levels of radiation. They were not used to blast anything.
Um, because they aren't the same thing at all, except to lawyers and those prominently wearing tinfoil?
Gamma rays kill you. The sun's rays don't. They're both radiation. Booga booga.
Ah-HA! It must have been electricity that caused his death, NOW I understand.
Yeah, but you know how statistics can be manipulated. Why, you don't even show the study you're drawing that data from! /sarcasm
Pure bunk is right on the money.
Sounds like he was building a feriday cage to protect his electronics and computers in case of a eletromagnetic pulse weapon.
I don't know. I had a grandmother who couldn't wear a watch. It's not that the watch hurt her. But the watch would stop functioning with 24 hours.
So if she can kill a watch, maybe some people are hurt by electricity.
But I don't think there should be any monetary awards. There has been no negligence here.
Faraday cage. :-)
I have heard of that. WOW!
All the data is inconclusive. That's not to say they're looking for something and couldn't find it or that they found something and are trying to cover it up. It just means that statistical tests are showing different conclusions, particularly in regards to childhood cancers.
Yes, technically. Every one I have worked in was called "the screen room."
Then they must have one heck of a time living here on earth.
We have a screen room here to prevent interference in
precision calibration.
The definition of a precision measurement electronics laboratory technician: Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, and cut it with an ax.
They're looking for something and can't find it.
This is a direct move on the part of the environmentalists to attack electric power. It's that simple. They've been spouting this crap with absolutely no foundation since I can remember. And that the press gives them any credence at all is due 100% to their political bent. 100%.
If you can find a credible scientist that backs any of this with a study, one who hasn't got his career/grant money in their clutches or a history of being in their corner, I would be very surprised.
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