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Study Says Cell Phones Can Interfere With Planes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the telco-conspiracy-is-way-more-fun dept.

3x37 writes "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website reports a study by Cargenie Mellon University researchers found that cell phones do interfere with airplane cockpit instruments. The researchers came to this takeaway conclusion: "devices like cell phones 'will, in all likelihood, someday cause an accident by interfering with critical cockpit instruments such as GPS receivers.'""

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  1. Cargenie Mellon? by bodrell · · Score: 1, Funny

    Cargenie. Sounds like something that can be an air-freshener, a CD-player, and a beverage cooler all at once.

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    1. Re:Cargenie Mellon? by Intron · · Score: 3, Funny

      Obviously a typo. It should be referring to the Cargenie Melon, a tropical fruit first imported to this country for the Great Pittsburgh Exhibition of 1899. It escaped into the steam tunnels of a nearby university where it has been flourishing ever since.

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  2. yeah! by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    My RAZR does that too!
    For a while I thought I was a psyker and was actually utilizing precog, and it was manifesting as "speaker noise". But then a coworker said she heard it too, and she's so dumb she can't be psychic. It's debateable whether she's even sentient, if you ask me. Which you didn't. But you were going to. Hey, maybe I'm psychic!

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  3. Re:Thank the gods by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really!!?! That's so Cool!! WHAT!! Sorry I Can't hear You!! NO!! IT'S NOT INTERFERANCE!!! There's this Guy telling Me to be Quiet!! No wait Hang on A sec! I'm TALKING on my Cell OK!?! The WHAT!!?! How Dare... OH The Pilots!!! Oh Man!! First You Tell me To turn Down my iPod(TM), and Now This!! I Paid to Be on This flight too you Know!?

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