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Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras
Anti-Globalism writes "A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae." Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
I'm a hippy too. they are not morons. How is what they are doing any different than ingesting the flesh and blood of christ in church. Oh, I know, Christ doesn't protect against electromagnetic radiation which the common person (in the civilised US) has no way of avoiding. These hippies apparantly would much rather not live with the pollutants they are absorbing, but they have no reasonable recourse. They resort to psuedo-religious magic to compensate for their inability to control their environment.
If you believe in mind over matter or more pragmatically the placebo affect, then what they are doing makes quite a bit of sense. (have you seen how much gold costs these days? Especially for a poor hippy.)
Finally, if I have to listen to people complain about second hand smoke so much that I feel like a goddamned leppar then why can't I complain even the least little bit about electromagnetic radiation? I seriously doubt that if their were a scientifically founded protection for EM radiation, these people wouldn't use it.
In order for a faraday cage to actually block a signal, it's metal wires must be nowhere more apart than twice the wavelength of the signal they intend to block. So that would be a grid for 900 Mhz signals. Well, just how close do these need to be ?
(3 x 10^8)/(900 x 10^6) = 33 cm to (3 x10^8)/(2.2 x 10^9) = 13.6 cm
So that would be a bit of an impractical grid to put around you, now wouldn't it ? A metal wire every 15 centimeter seems a bit ridiculous. Of course there will be no observable phenomena from being inside or outside the grid so selling them a faraday cage that doesn't in fact block cell phone radiation would not be discovered any time soon.
(oh and there is obviously a difference between Christians and hippies, for starters the fact that Christians actually have a purpose and generally act very sensibly)
> Christians actually have a purpose
+5 Flamebait
Einstein studied alchemy.
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
LOL
The idiots who spent their time getting blazed out of their minds are NOT who we have to thank for modern science. You are *kidding* yourself.
I am scientifically inaccurate.