Early in 2019 several companies began to roll
out their new 5G cellular services in major
cities across the US.
These quiet roll outs served as test beds
for a host of new 5g cell phones, as well
as ways to stress test the technology itself.
And as happens with any new technology, some people immediately started freaking out and the internet was there to happily help them
run wild with rumors and conspiracy theories
about the dangers of 5g.
So what’s really going on with 5g?
Is it going to cook our brains and kill us?
How dangerous is 5g?
5G tower
To start, fear of new technologies is nothing
new, especially when they play an immediate
impact in our day to day life.
Story of Electric Street Light in late 1800s.
In the late 1800s cities around the world
began to install electric street lighting.
While many cities already enjoyed the benefit
of gas lamps, these were expensive to maintain, generally only covered small areas of major cities, and actually did have an element of danger since gas is, you know, explosive.
Electric lamps however were cheap, and could
all be turned on and off with the switch of
a single button.
No longer would lamp lighters need to spend
hours each evening going around the city lighting individual lamps one by one.
The new electric light technology promised
to make our growing cities well lit and keep
people safe while out at night- and not just
in the rich neighbourhoods were gas lighting
was popular.
While street lights are ubiquitous across
any modern nation, the plan to string up electric street lighting across entire cities was met by a wave of fear from the population.
Many feared the health hazards of lighting
up a city at night, as it would throw off
people’s ability to tell night from day and
thus ruin sleep cycles.
Massive health hazards were predicted, as
millions of people had their sleep schedules
turned on their heads.
It was feared a wave of madness would overtake humanity.
But, no such thing happened and those early
fear mongers would likely have a hay day with
our modern twenty-four-seven lifestyles.
Religious figures got in on the outrage too,
warning that lighting up entire cities would
violate God’s natural laws.
That is because God had clearly made a difference between night and day, and if we were to do away with that divinely-inspired segregation of light and dark then… who knows, demons may burst forth from the mouth of hell, cats and dogs would become best friends and up would become down.
The Vatican feared offending God’s own sleep
cycle so much that it initially banned gas
lights in the 1830s.
It might be tempting to laugh at the ignorance
of zealots and the ignorant masses of the
1800s, but you’d be doing so at the risk of
being laughed at yourself by future generations.
Today we are afraid of everything from chemtrails to GMO foods, despite common sense and decades worth of scientific studies.
You’re free to laugh at the ignorance of 1800
citizens who believed electric lights would
drive everyone insane, as long as you don’t
mind that in two hundred years you’ll be laughed at for being afraid of vaccines- if everyone hasn’t died to super-measles by then.
But of all the fears we have about our modern
world, the latest to hit the internet and
rumor mills around the world are fears over
5g cellular service.
But What is 5g?
5G is simply another evolution in wireless
information transfer technology.
5G literally means fifth generation, but as
opposed to previous generations 5g operates
at much higher frequencies than previously
used.
The higher frequencies allow 5g service to
deliver greater packets of data, with the
potential estimated to be up to ten gigabytes
per second.
This could dramatically change our wireless
world and promises to make everything from
augmented and virtual reality to smart autonomous vehicles a fixture of our lives.
Unfortunately though as you increase the frequency of a carrier wave, its range is dramatically decreased as is its ability to penetrate through solid objects like walls.
This is why the military very often uses extremely low frequency bandwidths to transmit messages, most famously with its fleet of nuclear submarines who use a global system of extreme low frequency transmitters to communicate with its boats from anywhere in the world.
Mention high frequency outside of a science
classroom though and the public very quickly
begins to soil their collective pantaloons.
On one hand the fears are justified, after
all history is full of examples of poorly
understood technologies being marketed to
an ignorant public- it wasn’t too long ago
that ionizing radiation was promised as a
cure-all for, well everything.
You could find radioactive elements in everything from makeup powders to breakfast cereals, all with the promise that the ionizing radiation would boost your vigour and refresh your health!
Of course it did pretty much the opposite,
and it didn’t take long for people to figure
it out.
Yet today, unlike yesteryear, we have international systems of scientific checks and balances which work very well to stamp out bias and scientific deception.
While a massive conspiracy to cook everyone’s
brains with cell phones is not entirely impossible, it would be an extremely difficult scheme to sneak pass the thousands of watchdog agencies all connected by the global internet.
Plus it doesn’t pass the first point of failure for any conspiracy theory: common sense.
If cell phone companies purposefully developed a product that irradiated its consumers, those
same companies would 1 – be buried under mountains of lawsuits, and 2 – not have consumers anymore when people flat-out refused to use cell phones out of fear.
Fear Over cell phone Radiation in 1990s
Fears over cell phone radiation are nothing
new though, and have plagued the devices ever since their mainstream adoption in the 1990s.
All matter of products have been marketed
promising to protect you from the risk of
electromagnetic radiation from your evil cell
phone, most of which were nothing more than
snake oil that did little if anything to block
the radio frequencies emitted by your cell
phone.
Ongoing public fears have prompted scientific
study after scientific study, and yet no valid
study has yet to prove that normal cell phone
use poses a real risk to humans.
In fact, back when killing people with radio
waves was something the Japanese were actually trying to do during World War II, the best they managed with extremely powerful modified radar dishes was to kill a rabbit at a distance of a few dozen feet- and even then only after ten minutes and using an antenna several meters across and locking the rabbit up in a cage where it couldn’t move.
After much careful scientific study by research staff they were able to conclude that your phone is in fact, far smaller than a 3-meter wide antenna and you are far larger than a rabbit.
Thanks to the United States and the Soviet
Union doing their darned best to kill every
human on planet earth for forty years though,
we have an understandable aversion to anything with the word radiation in it.
This explains why people are so concerned
over cell phones, which blast out electromagnetic radiation into their environment.
Coupled with the fact that you typically then
put these devices up to your head in order
to speak into them, we can see where the concerns over radiation affecting people’s brains come from.
It’s important to understand the differences
between the different types of radiation though.
Ionizing Radiation
The first, and the most feared, is ionizing
radiation, which is one of the types of radiation
emitted by a nuclear explosion.
This is the same stuff that comic books said
would turn us into super-powered Spidermen,
except unless your preferred superpower is
the ability to get cancer, then no it won’t.
Ionizing radiation is harmful to living beings
because of the energy in its extremely short
wavelength and high frequency waves, which
can knock electrons loose from atoms and seriously damage the molecules inside your body.
Non-Ionozing Radiation
Non-ionizing radiation on the other hand doesn’t carry enough energy to break molecular bonds, and the best that they can do is cause heating by vibrating molecules at high speeds.
How Does Microwave Work?
Microwave
This is exactly how your microwave works-
it emits microwave radiation with high enough
energy to vibrate water molecules in your
food, generating heat which warms the food.
But with 5g using wavelengths similar to those
in a microwave, how in the world could our
Can Cell Phones End Up Cooking Cur Brains?
The answer to that question has to do with
power- a microwave can emit anywhere between 500 and 1000 watts of power, which actually is enough to kill, if you were to crawl inside a giant microwave and turn on the popcorn setting that is.
It also emits this much energy continuously,
while a cell phone only emits a few watts
of power and even this comes in short bursts.
If you don’t believe physics though, then
you can believe the tests done on live animals
to see how dangerous the electromagnetic radiation given off by the frequencies used by cell phones are.
One ten year study tracked colonies of mice
and rats which had their full bodies exposed
to radio frequencies used by 2g and 3g cell
services.
The test subjects were exposed for 18 hours
a day in intervals of ten minutes on and ten
minutes off, starting before they were even
born while inside their mothers and lasting
throughout the normal course of their lives.
The power level of the RF radiation used ranged from above to slightly below permitted levels for cellular devices, and after a decade the study found no direct correlation between
RF radiation and ill health effects.
Given the far less exposure humans are subjected to and the physical properties of 5g’s very high frequency waves, scientists have expressed little fear that 5g will be dangerous.
For starters the waves are so poor at propagating through objects and even just empty air that companies are forced to build mini-towers every city block or so, and in consumer tests of 5g devices earlier this year most lost service after getting only a few hundred feet away from them.
This doesn’t bode well for 5g waves trying
to penetrate through the layers of your skin
and skull in order to get to your defenseless
brain and start cooking it.
Nevertheless, we fully expect that fear mongering and rumors will continue to spread as 5g rolls out around the world, and we also don’t expect to be disappointed by the countless snake oil salesman and their crazy inventions the promise will protect you from the evil cell phone radiation.
Of course I know that you know that this
is exactly what i’d say if I were in fact
part of a major conspiracy and in the pocket
of all of the major cell phone carriers and
manufacturers, which is why I encourage you
to do your own research into the difference
between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
And as always if you enjoyed this article don’t
forget to Share, and sign up for more
great content
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Which Year Did 5G installation Started
Early in 2019 several companies began to roll
out their new 5G cellular services in major
cities across the US.
These quiet roll outs served as test beds
for a host of new 5g cell phones, as well
as ways to stress test the technology itself.
And as happens with any new technology, some people immediately started freaking out and the internet was there to happily help them
run wild with rumors and conspiracy theories
about the dangers of 5g.
So what’s really going on with 5g?
Is it going to cook our brains and kill us?
How dangerous is 5g?
5G tower
To start, fear of new technologies is nothing
new, especially when they play an immediate
impact in our day to day life.
Story of Electric Street Light in late 1800s.
In the late 1800s cities around the world
began to install electric street lighting.
While many cities already enjoyed the benefit
of gas lamps, these were expensive to maintain, generally only covered small areas of major cities, and actually did have an element of danger since gas is, you know, explosive.
Electric lamps however were cheap, and could
all be turned on and off with the switch of
a single button.
No longer would lamp lighters need to spend
hours each evening going around the city lighting individual lamps one by one.
The new electric light technology promised
to make our growing cities well lit and keep
people safe while out at night- and not just
in the rich neighbourhoods were gas lighting
was popular.
While street lights are ubiquitous across
any modern nation, the plan to string up electric street lighting across entire cities was met by a wave of fear from the population.
Many feared the health hazards of lighting
up a city at night, as it would throw off
people’s ability to tell night from day and
thus ruin sleep cycles.
Massive health hazards were predicted, as
millions of people had their sleep schedules
turned on their heads.
It was feared a wave of madness would overtake humanity.
But, no such thing happened and those early
fear mongers would likely have a hay day with
our modern twenty-four-seven lifestyles.
Religious figures got in on the outrage too,
warning that lighting up entire cities would
violate God’s natural laws.
That is because God had clearly made a difference between night and day, and if we were to do away with that divinely-inspired segregation of light and dark then… who knows, demons may burst forth from the mouth of hell, cats and dogs would become best friends and up would become down.
The Vatican feared offending God’s own sleep
cycle so much that it initially banned gas
lights in the 1830s.
It might be tempting to laugh at the ignorance
of zealots and the ignorant masses of the
1800s, but you’d be doing so at the risk of
being laughed at yourself by future generations.
Today we are afraid of everything from chemtrails to GMO foods, despite common sense and decades worth of scientific studies.
You’re free to laugh at the ignorance of 1800
citizens who believed electric lights would
drive everyone insane, as long as you don’t
mind that in two hundred years you’ll be laughed at for being afraid of vaccines- if everyone hasn’t died to super-measles by then.
But of all the fears we have about our modern
world, the latest to hit the internet and
rumor mills around the world are fears over
5g cellular service.
But What is 5g?
5G is simply another evolution in wireless
information transfer technology.
5G literally means fifth generation, but as
opposed to previous generations 5g operates
at much higher frequencies than previously
used.
The higher frequencies allow 5g service to
deliver greater packets of data, with the
potential estimated to be up to ten gigabytes
per second.
This could dramatically change our wireless
world and promises to make everything from
augmented and virtual reality to smart autonomous vehicles a fixture of our lives.
Unfortunately though as you increase the frequency of a carrier wave, its range is dramatically decreased as is its ability to penetrate through solid objects like walls.
This is why the military very often uses extremely low frequency bandwidths to transmit messages, most famously with its fleet of nuclear submarines who use a global system of extreme low frequency transmitters to communicate with its boats from anywhere in the world.
Mention high frequency outside of a science
classroom though and the public very quickly
begins to soil their collective pantaloons.
On one hand the fears are justified, after
all history is full of examples of poorly
understood technologies being marketed to
an ignorant public- it wasn’t too long ago
that ionizing radiation was promised as a
cure-all for, well everything.
You could find radioactive elements in everything from makeup powders to breakfast cereals, all with the promise that the ionizing radiation would boost your vigour and refresh your health!
Of course it did pretty much the opposite,
and it didn’t take long for people to figure
it out.
Yet today, unlike yesteryear, we have international systems of scientific checks and balances which work very well to stamp out bias and scientific deception.
While a massive conspiracy to cook everyone’s
brains with cell phones is not entirely impossible, it would be an extremely difficult scheme to sneak pass the thousands of watchdog agencies all connected by the global internet.
Plus it doesn’t pass the first point of failure for any conspiracy theory: common sense.
If cell phone companies purposefully developed a product that irradiated its consumers, those
same companies would
1 – be buried under mountains
of lawsuits, and
2 – not have consumers anymore
when people flat-out refused to use cell phones out of fear.
Fear Over cell phone Radiation in 1990s
Fears over cell phone radiation are nothing
new though, and have plagued the devices ever since their mainstream adoption in the 1990s.
All matter of products have been marketed
promising to protect you from the risk of
electromagnetic radiation from your evil cell
phone, most of which were nothing more than
snake oil that did little if anything to block
the radio frequencies emitted by your cell
phone.
Ongoing public fears have prompted scientific
study after scientific study, and yet no valid
study has yet to prove that normal cell phone
use poses a real risk to humans.
In fact, back when killing people with radio
waves was something the Japanese were actually trying to do during World War II, the best they managed with extremely powerful modified radar dishes was to kill a rabbit at a distance of a few dozen feet- and even then only after ten minutes and using an antenna several meters across and locking the rabbit up in a cage where it couldn’t move.
After much careful scientific study by research staff they were able to conclude that your phone is in fact, far smaller than a 3-meter wide antenna and you are far larger than a rabbit.
Thanks to the United States and the Soviet
Union doing their darned best to kill every
human on planet earth for forty years though,
we have an understandable aversion to anything with the word radiation in it.
This explains why people are so concerned
over cell phones, which blast out electromagnetic radiation into their environment.
Coupled with the fact that you typically then
put these devices up to your head in order
to speak into them, we can see where the concerns over radiation affecting people’s brains come from.
It’s important to understand the differences
between the different types of radiation though.
Ionizing Radiation
The first, and the most feared, is ionizing
radiation, which is one of the types of radiation
emitted by a nuclear explosion.
This is the same stuff that comic books said
would turn us into super-powered Spidermen,
except unless your preferred superpower is
the ability to get cancer, then no it won’t.
Ionizing radiation is harmful to living beings
because of the energy in its extremely short
wavelength and high frequency waves, which
can knock electrons loose from atoms and seriously damage the molecules inside your body.
Non-Ionozing Radiation
Non-ionizing radiation on the other hand doesn’t carry enough energy to break molecular bonds, and the best that they can do is cause heating by vibrating molecules at high speeds.
How Does Microwave Work?
Microwave
This is exactly how your microwave works-
it emits microwave radiation with high enough
energy to vibrate water molecules in your
food, generating heat which warms the food.
But with 5g using wavelengths similar to those
in a microwave, how in the world could our
Can Cell Phones End Up Cooking Cur Brains?
The answer to that question has to do with
power- a microwave can emit anywhere between 500 and 1000 watts of power, which actually is enough to kill, if you were to crawl inside a giant microwave and turn on the popcorn setting that is.
It also emits this much energy continuously,
while a cell phone only emits a few watts
of power and even this comes in short bursts.
If you don’t believe physics though, then
you can believe the tests done on live animals
to see how dangerous the electromagnetic radiation given off by the frequencies used by cell phones are.
One ten year study tracked colonies of mice
and rats which had their full bodies exposed
to radio frequencies used by 2g and 3g cell
services.
The test subjects were exposed for 18 hours
a day in intervals of ten minutes on and ten
minutes off, starting before they were even
born while inside their mothers and lasting
throughout the normal course of their lives.
The power level of the RF radiation used ranged from above to slightly below permitted levels for cellular devices, and after a decade the study found no direct correlation between
RF radiation and ill health effects.
Given the far less exposure humans are subjected to and the physical properties of 5g’s very high frequency waves, scientists have expressed little fear that 5g will be dangerous.
For starters the waves are so poor at propagating through objects and even just empty air that companies are forced to build mini-towers every city block or so, and in consumer tests of 5g devices earlier this year most lost service after getting only a few hundred feet away from them.
This doesn’t bode well for 5g waves trying
to penetrate through the layers of your skin
and skull in order to get to your defenseless
brain and start cooking it.
Nevertheless, we fully expect that fear mongering and rumors will continue to spread as 5g rolls out around the world, and we also don’t expect to be disappointed by the countless snake oil salesman and their crazy inventions the promise will protect you from the evil cell phone radiation.
Of course I know that you know that this
is exactly what i’d say if I were in fact
part of a major conspiracy and in the pocket
of all of the major cell phone carriers and
manufacturers, which is why I encourage you
to do your own research into the difference
between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
And as always if you enjoyed this article don’t
forget to Share, and sign up for more
great content