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The health of astronauts being affect by a change in the EMF as they go into space is clearly a valid point and NASA has clearly taken measures to keep astronauts in a healthy magnetic filed. I would point out that these astronauts went farther away from Earth and thus experienced a reduction in the EMF of Earth.
Originally posted by atlasastro
Actually, you should watch the Video, as the OP rightly suggests.
Originally posted by RedPill
The health of astronauts being affect by a change in the EMF as they go into space is clearly a valid point...
...and NASA has clearly taken measures to keep astronauts in a healthy magnetic filed.
It is now established that true polar wander has occurred at various times in the past, but at rates of 1° per million years or less.
Originally posted by rajaten
reply to post by atlasastro
The idea is that WHEN the pole shift happens, there will be an absence of the magnetic field.
You read my comment wrong.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Originally posted by rajaten
reply to post by atlasastro
The idea is that WHEN the pole shift happens, there will be an absence of the magnetic field.
You read my comment wrong.
Well in order for a pole shift to occur, there must be a magnetic field around which is becoming destabilized and shifting.
I think it may be more accurate to say that when the next pole shift occurs, the magnetic fields we're used to experiencing will violently fluctuate, and this may in fact cause some of the things which you describe.
Originally posted by rajaten
I remember hearing about some experiment where they put a guy seated inside a large faraday cage that blocked out nearly all natural energies. After a few minutes the guy got really scared and experienced an overwhelming sense of dread.
It just makes sense that if we are disconnected from our natural state, we would feel very odd.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by MrXYZ
Wait what? You can't be serious... are you?! You don't think that EMF carry radiation, cause cancer, and probably even a whole lot more?!
That's so incredibly unintuitive of you. Sorry, but I had to say it. There's a ton of evidence that EMF causes a wide range of disruptions to the human body. If you truly would like, I'll dig some of it up, but it's not that hard to find.
Going through the source you provided, it clearly states otherwise. Please update your post to reflect this fact. Thanks!edit on 29-11-2010 by unityemissions because: (no reason given)
"The Task Group concluded that there are no substantive health issues related to ELF electric fields at levels generally encountered by members of the public.... [O]n balance, the evidence [about magnetic fields being] related to childhood leukaemia is not strong enough to be considered causal.... A number of other adverse health effects have been studied for possible association with ELF magnetic field exposure. These include other childhood cancers, cancers in adults, depression, suicide, cardiovascular disorders, reproductive dysfunction, developmental disorders, immunological modifications, neurobehavioural effects and neurodegenerative disease. The WHO Task Group concluded that scientific evidence supporting an association between ELF magnetic field exposure and all of these health effects is much weaker than for childhood leukaemia. In some instances (i.e. for cardiovascular disease or breast cancer) the evidence suggests that these fields do not cause them."
Originally posted by thecinic
A. There is no coming pole shift and if it did happen it would take 1000 plus years....
B. OR has it happen you guys were right all along we just don't know it or remember it
Take the test you schmucks and don't fail.
In contrast, a Swedish group not participating in the Interphone-study, conducting several case- control studies using self-administered questionnaires for exposure assessment, has repeatedly observed increased relative risk estimates for brain tumours and is the only group that observed such an increase already after few years of use of a mobile phone
Genotoxic effects The photon energy of radiation from mobile phones is much lower than the energy necessary to break chemical bonds. It is therefore generally accepted that RF fields do not directly damage DNA. However, it is possible that certain cellular constituents altered by exposure to EMF, such as free radicals, indirectly affect DNA. In most studies, the genotoxic effects have been investigated after short-term exposure (for review see Moulder et al. 1999, Vijayalaxmi and Obe 2004). The REFLEX study performed by twelve research groups in seven European countries, investigated basic mechanisms induced by EMF using toxicological and molecular biological technologies at cellular and sub-cellular levels in vitro. The REFLEX investigators (Diem et al. 2005) reported DNA strand breaks (measured by both the neutral and alkaline versions of the “comet” assay) in human diploid fibroblasts and cultured rat granulosa cells after RF field exposure (1800 MHz; SAR 1.2 or 2 W/kg; different modulations; during 4, 16 and 24h; intermittent 5 min on/10 min off or continuous wave). Statistically significant increases in micronucleus formation and in chromosomal aberrations were observed in fibroblasts as well. Nicolova et al. (2005) reported after a 6-h but not after a 48-h RF field exposure a low and transient increase of DNA strand breaks in embryonic stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells.
A variety of non-specific symptoms (for example neurovegetative symptoms like headache, fatigue, dizziness and concentration difficulties) has been suggested to be triggered by exposure to RF fields. These possible health effects have been discussed and studied mainly from two different aspects: 1) a possible increase in symptoms in populations living close to mobile communication base stations and 2) reports from individuals that exposure to RF from mobile phones (and sometimes also base stations) triggers symptoms. In the latter case, some individuals attribute their health problems to an increased sensitivity (hypersensitivity) to electromagnetic fields. The term “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” (EHS) has been used to describe such cases of non-specific health problems attributed by the afflicted individuals to electromagnetic fields or to being in the vicinity of electrical equipment (see also the section on ELF fields 3.5.3 Symptoms). There have only been a few attempts to study symptom prevalence and symptom severity in relation to exposure to RF fields from base stations. The methodological limitations of these cross-sectional epidemiological studies, which were used for this, preclude conclusions regarding a possible relationship between an increase in symptoms and exposure to RF. A relationship between RF and symptoms in healthy volunteers was investigated in one provocation study (Koivisto et al. 2001). No increase in symptoms was observed during RF exposure as compared to sham exposure. The limited number of studies on detection of RF at exposure levels relevant to mobile communication systems under blind conditions has not provided any consistent proof of ability to detect the fields, neither in healthy individuals nor in subjects who report EHS. Health complaints described as EHS and reported to be triggered by mobile phones have also been studied in a limited number of provocation studies. A WHO Workshop on Electrical Hypersensitivity (WHO 2005) and recent reviews of the literature on subjective health complaints associated with electromagnetic fields of mobile phone communication (Seitz et al. 2005) and provocation studies including subjects reporting EHS (Rubin et al. 2005) have presented similar conclusions. The main conclusion is that although symptoms described as EHS Possible effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) on Human Health are real and may be severe and disabling, a relationship between symptoms and RF field exposure has not been proven. Most likely, the health problems described as EHS are not related to the physical presence of EMF and more research is needed to learn more about the conditions inducing EHS.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by MrXYZ
Your absolute stance reeks of intellectual dishonesty.
I'll edit this post in a bit to provide some references.
... There's a ton of evidence that EMF causes a wide range of disruptions to the human body...
Concerns about the dangers of living close to high-tension wires or of frequent use of cell phones have been hot topics for the past decade. Unfortunately, one of the studies that warned about the dangers of electromagnetic field (EMF) damage was a case of fraudulent science.
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There is an association between childhood leukaemia and proximity of home address at birth to high voltage power lines, and the apparent risk extends to a greater distance than would have been expected from previous studies. About 4% of children in England and Wales live within 600 m of high voltage lines at birth. If the association is causal, about 1% of childhood leukaemia in England and Wales would be attributable to these lines, though this estimate has considerable statistical uncertainty. There is no accepted biological mechanism to explain the epidemiological results; indeed, the relation may be due to chance or confounding.