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originally posted by: smkymcnugget420
a reply to: hombero
exactly!!! get me an RF engineer then you can color me impressed.
its literally a case of "i dont understand it so its evil" this blatant attitude woke me up to a bunch of other B/S "conspiracies" that are just grounding in ignorance of how things work.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in opposition to FCC Docket Numbers 17-79 and 15-180, which would allow streamlined approval of 5G infrastructure to be built on existing utility poles, in greater number than current cellular antennas. The group is comprised of over 225 reputable scientists from 41 countries who have peer reviewed publications on electromagnetic fields.
"FCC is urging an accelerated deployment schedule for the 5th generation wireless infrastructure, to be installed pervasively throughout the United States. This is being done without public health review of the growing body of scientific evidence that includes reports of increasing rates of cancer and neurological diseases that may be caused by exposure to EMF from wireless sources."
The scientists went on to say: "Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines." These effects can include an increased cancer risk, genetic damage, structural and functional changes to the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, and neurological disorders.
originally posted by: waftist
originally posted by: Mandroid7
I saw a Verizon commercial last night.
They specifically said 5g will be used by doctors to cure cancer.
Not even joking
Doublespeak perhaps?
Verizon Claims 5G Will Help Fight Cancer
Hmmm, well I do think the connectivity and speed will be of benefit to numerous technologies including medical, but I am still concerned with residual effects and uncertainties regarding safety.
The industry does not want to know and the activists just pretend they know.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
I saw a Verizon commercial last night.
They specifically said 5g will be used by doctors to cure cancer.
Not even joking
originally posted by: Jubei42
I don't know about all the potential dangers of EMF, but I looked up how much energy these 5G FR2(24Ghz and higher, aka the mmWave) cells put out.
And it's not alot, outputs for outdoor cells vary from 200 to 20,000 mW. Or 0.2 to 20 Watts Wiki Source
1 Watt equals 1 Joule per second. At standard atmospheric pressure the energy required to raise 1 kg of water from 19.5˚C to 20.5˚C is 4182 J.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur a reply to: waftist
I've seen the fear mongering about 5G. I don't claim to have all the answers but I do know something about the topic. Bottom line is I think the higher frequencies in 5G are probably safer, and 5G can use the same frequencies used in weaponized crowd control though I don't see that as a bad thing.
Let's start with the current 4G technology which I think uses frequencies from about 0.6 GHz to 6 GHz. There are conflicting reports about its safety, but the biggest concern I have after researching the topic is that all the smart phone manufacturers seem to realize there's a problem with smart phones giving off too much radiation if you mash them against the side of your head while talking on them, so they put in their instructions to not do that but keep some minimum distance between your head and the smart phone. That distance varies by manufacturer and possibly by device (higher power devices may suggest a larger distance). The problem as you might guess is that almost nobody even reads the instructions so most people aren't aware they are supposed to keep a minimum space between the phone and their head.
There have been cases where people got brain tumors in a spot near where they held the phone against their head for long times, being heavy users of the technology, so that would be my biggest concern. Possibly anecdotal to some extent though safety studies have conflicting results, so I think the manufacturer's recommendations for minimum distance need to be followed. The second biggest concern might be if you were a technician servicing cell tower antennas that were powered on, your exposure can also be quite high being way closer to the antennas than the general public.
So that was 4G, now let's talk about 5G. It can use the same frequencies as 4G, plus some higher frequencies, so the total frequency range is expanded from the same low end as 4G to a much higher high end. The higher the frequencies, the less they can penetrate conductors and your body is partially conductive. So I actually see the higher frequencies used by 5G as a good thing from a safety perspective, since I'm happy that they can't penetrate very far into my body. If there really was a link between the people getting brain tumors near where they held their 4G phone up to their head (I don't know if the claimed link is real), it would be because those frequencies were penetrating into the brain and causing some cells to get damaged in the brain. The higher frequencies in 5G can't penetrate as far.
At the frequencies of 35 GHz (I think for now the 5G implementations are approximately in this range) and 94 GHz (approximately what the crowd control weapon uses, but future 5G implementations can and probably will use something near this), if the radiation resulted in some kind of cancer, I think would be less likely to penetrate to the brain and would affect the skin instead, which I think is a whole lot easier to deal with than brain cancer. There have been a few injuries from the weaponized crowd control devices using frequencies like 95 GHz, but again they are skin effects, like burns. If that crowd control weapon is aimed at you, you'll feel like your skin is on fire. Usually the test subjects haven't got actual skin burns from getting that sensation, because as soon as they move away from the device the burning sensation stops and their skin is ok, but in a couple of cases the subjects actually got burned skin. That is a known risk if you get too much of those 5G frequencies, though I never heard of anyone getting a skin burn from 5G like they have from the weaponized crowd control.
Whether long term exposure at lower power levels of 5G frequencies might cause skin tumors I don't know, but but those frequencies actually have been researched for effects on animal tissue, contrary to some claims floating around. Here are some references to the research, and the paper titled "Lack of effect of 94-GHz radio frequency radiation exposure in an animal model of skin carcinogenesis" suggests the study didn't find skin cancer from that frequency, but it can definitely burn your skin at high power levels. I'm really not expecting to see people get burned skin from 5G, though there's a slim chance you might get skin burns if you got too close to a crowd control weapon at similar frequency.