sweintz
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Re: radiation is radiation?
said by Maxo  :You should see their website said by »healthyhomealliance.com/ : “These Wi-Fi transmitters function at 2.45 GHz, which is like being surrounded by a microwave oven without walls or doors.” This is like arguing that two 9V batteries are more dangerous than a 12V car battery. Two nine volts ARE more dangerous than a 12 volt car battery. It's very hard to get your tongue across *both* terminals on the big car battery... |
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Maxo
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1 edit | It's not hard to lay a steel bar across a 12V car battery.
Edit: Grammar |
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elvey
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If you put your tongue across *both* terminals of a 9V, it won't kill you or do any real damage, AFAIK. Unless you jump back from the sharp tingle and fall or something! 
It's amazing how well society runs given the constituents. Are people just innately this stupid, or is it poor schooling that makes them such an embarrassment to themselves? Or is it willful ignorance in furtherance of some other cause?
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rawgerz
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| A 9V has enough mA to kill you, your skin just is not the best conductor. At least one person has died from a 9V powered Ohm meter and prongs pierced under the skin
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Maxo
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clubs: | 9V can do a lot of harm to you. A 9V battery, or two, that would be purchased at a local drug store doesn't have enough amps to hurt you. On the other hand, a 12V car battery has enough to do some real damage. Hence my analogy. |
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RadioDoc
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You'd have a lot more credibility if you weren't mixing voltage and current.
That infamous sailor stuck metal probes into his skin and evidently touched a nerve. Even a watch battery could cause damage under those highly specific conditions. He was reckless, idiotic and a Darwin Award candidate.
However, that has absolutely nothing to do with this story.
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elvey
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Well, there are stun guns that run off standard 9V batteries too. And a 9V dropped off the empire state building is probably deadly once it hits street level as well...
chuckle... |
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