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Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras

Posted by samzenpus on from the what's-with-all-the-negative-waves dept.

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."

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  1. Re:That's odd... by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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)