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ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms
ScentCone writes "The ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has claimed responsibility for destroying the primary AM towers used by radio station KRKO in Washington state. From their statement: 'AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines.' The poor intercom performance must have been the last straw."
They should have just wrapped the towers in tin foil.
Can't you hear how they are crying out "No, his antenna is too small. It will never carry low enough frequencies. Die, you small antenna!"?
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Ignoring the fact that we aren't very good conductors... at 5-6 feet tall, I doubt the human body can effectively absorb a lot of this relatively very-long-wavelength radiation.
In addition to all of that, there's a reason EM radiation of longer wavelengths is called "non-ionizing". Hint: it's because it's incapable of ionizing anything.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
It's because of the AM radio! If it were destroyed, we'd all have working intercoms again!
Oh, I do hope not -- I hate to think that they might reproduce :-(
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Are they going to blow up the sun next?
Nature is ahead of them on that. Fortunately for us, it takes quite a while for something that size to blow.
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NIMBYs on steroids.
Heh guess I'll have a tough time selling them on the idea of Satellite based Solar Power?
we are going to need to burn some oil and release more CO2 into the air as we transport workers and materials in the rebuilding effort. I'm glad the ELF thought this through.
Electrical engineering makes mother earth cry!
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Maybe AM radio causes cancer, maybe it doesn't. Why take a chance? From now on, I'm only going to listen to FM.
Unlikely. The AM broadcasts saw to that.
I always knew that GCC produced gigantic ELF files, but big enough to knock over an AM tower? This is just ridiculous.
I'd never associate with the Earth Liberation Front. Now the Liberation Front of Earth, that's what it's all about. Not like those bastards in the Frontier for Earthern Liberation.
ELF is evil, I said it since 1995! We should switch to COFF at once!
Unfortunately, radio waves are non-habit forming.
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Unfortunately, the ELF doesn't have an office. It's a spaceship they live on, because they clearly are not from this planet.
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Bizarro Earth Liberation Front am very concerned about Earth. Knocking down random radio towers am very important and am not just for fun. Me serious!
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Also magnetic cock rings.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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"Life in America has gotten so easy that most people will grasp at straws so they can be outraged about something. You know... To keep them busy and feel like they are actually doing something important... "
Nonsense!
I'd reply at more length but I've a Town Hall meeting to picket. We must stop Obamessianic Socialism!
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And no, there aren't two equal but opposing viewpoints regarding EM. There's right and wrong. Fact and fiction.
Oh, that's just your viewpoint, which is equally valid as my viewpoint, which is that right and wrong are subjective and decided largely by volume of ranting and by a sense of fairness, such that even my made up bullshit gets to be right for a day every once in a while.
And on that day, AM radio towers will cure cancer. I demand an equal amount of airtime for my view as for you and ELF on the non-AM media channels.
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I thought a lot of eco-terrorists were rich bored college students.
If that applies to this lot then they should demand a refund on their tuition because they clearly aren't well educated!
You know it occurred to me just now that these people with their orgone or whatevers, you know the things with the quartz crystals... They claim that somehow the crystals absorb the EM waves or something; I honestly don't really know the entire spiel.
What do you think would happen if we told them that radio waves are generated using a quartz crystal oscillator? Head explosion? Rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth?
Sadly, it would probably go something like this little conversation I had with my vegan friend:
"It's terrible to kill and eat animals. It's not natural."
"So, should we kill all the wolves and tigers and ferrets? They kill and eat animals."
"That's different because they're natural."
"What are humans, then? Aliens?"
"We have self awareness, so we have the duty to be kind to animals."
"So if animals aren't self-aware, wouldn't that mean that they don't have souls or feel pain?"
"..."
"If wolves became self-aware and stopped eating meat, they'd become sick and maybe die. They have evolved to be carnivores."
"Yeah but humans haven't, we have molars."
"We also have incisors."
"That's for berries."
[facepalm, walk away]
She has a degree in teaching, btw.
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No offense, but I've stopped responding to AC's.
The FBI would love to hear from you if you ever even find the ELF's office - they've been looking for a while now...
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I want to drive to Seattle and set fire to the ELF's office
Careful: the last guy who tried to burn down an ELF office was Sauron, and look where it got him...
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So which category am I in?
I don't know, but while we're determining that, please stop by the Al-Qaeda and Mafia offices. They could really use a lit torch too.
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