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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 57 points 6 days ago

I recall someone doing the math on this and demonstrated that spending decades next to a wifi router exposed you to as much radiation as being outside in the sun for a few minutes.

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 58 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Einstein won the Nobel a hundred years ago proving that light works in chunks called photons. If a photon needs frequency v to ionize an atom, then you can shine frequency v/2 on it for years if you want — it will never ionize the atom. This is because the energy from the lower frequency light doesn’t “build up” in the atom until the electron is kicked out. The photon must have the correct amount of energy needed to interact with the electron and eject it. Otherwise, nothing happens.

So it might be true that the overall radiation exposure from WiFi in terms of total energy might be equivalent in a few years to solar energy received in a few minutes, but the physical impact is not equivalent. Sunlight contains ionizing radiation (hence sunscreen) while WiFi routers do not emit ionizing radiation. You can sit next to a router for your whole life and it will be fine. Maybe if you had a super powerful router, you’d start to worry about thermal radiation since WiFi sits in the microwave part of the spectrum.

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

You receive far more radiation from the heat sources and light sources in your home (separately, not combined!), than from wifi 😱

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 38 points 6 days ago

So it's kinda like I DO go outside!

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 6 days ago

Remember when people used to claim cellphones would cause a rise in brain cancer? It used to be repeated constantly in the early 2000s on "real" news channels.

Remember when "4G LTE" was going to spike cancer rates? Same for 5G.

Total clown shit. In many ways I don't blame average hogs for believing insane shit like vaccines are bad or don't do anything. They've been lied to so many times about everything else. Now we have a professionally bad liar as the health guy and Congress (democrats obviously) were last seen spinning in their chairs going "Uh, what can we do? Guess we'll do nothing!"

I guess there will be no attempts at third parties either for mid terms or even probably for next presidential election. Everyone is just lying down in the highway and waiting for the inevitable.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

The venn diagram between people who held and loudly expressed these beliefs tended and tend to be defenders of people right to smoke if they want to.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

@Grok is this true? And how do we kill the sun?

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

Just switch it with a black hole of equal mass really fast and hope nobody notices

[-] hexthismess@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

Replace it with a cooler temperature bulb.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

that will just make it brighter and bluer, we want it out not cold

[-] groKKK@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, the sun is a very strong source of radiation in comparison to wifi signals, and long-term exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer. This is why the countries with the highest rates of skin cancer are Australia and Israel, whose population's white skin are not adapted to the higher rates of sunlight in these regions compared to the ancestral homeland of white people. These diseases are caused by the sun's rays; in other words, it is because the sun is bright that it is dangerously radioactive. This is why the only solution to save white populations from skin cancer is to replace our current bright sun with a black sun.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

I completely forgot about this bit account. I'll be tagging you from now on. che-smile

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Even the sun is trying to do white genocide smh

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago
[-] dragongloss@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Freeloading sun has done nothing for us, get a job sun!

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Not necessary! At night just sneak away before the sun comes back!

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