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Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure?
An anonymous reader writes "I am considering buying a penthouse apartment in Manhattan that happens to be about twenty feet away from a pair of panel antennas belonging to a major cellular carrier. The antennas are on roughly the same plane as the apartment and point in its direction. I have sifted through a lot of information online about cell towers, most of which suggest that the radiation they emit is low-level and benign. Most of this information, however, seems to concern ground-level exposure at non-regular intervals. My question to Slashdot is: should the prospect of persistent exposure to microwave radiation from this pair of antennas sitting twenty feet from where I rest my head worry me? Am I just being a jackass? Can I, perhaps, line the walls of the place with a tight metal mesh and thereby deflect the radiation? My background is in computer engineering — I am not particularly knowledgeable about the physics of devices such as these. Please help me make an enlightened decision."
hey, can we ask you a favour? given the likelihood of you being able to post on slashdot should you die of radiation-related disease, could you please put a webcam in your apartment, so that if you die everyone can know that they shouldn't live 20 ft away from celltowers that transmit up to 2 watts peak to anything up to 2,000 users, simultaneously? consider your potential death by proximity to around ooo 4kW microwave radiation to be a public service.
I haven't implied any of that and I can't see how anyone in their right mind could read that absurd allegation from what I've wrote, much less if we bear in mind the post I replied to.
Moreover, I haven't proposed anything, which therefore means that there is no proposal to clarify.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
Exactly what part of my post comes off to you as something being said by "a paranoid nutjob"?
Everything in between "Is that why" and "widely deployed".
If you believe that pointing out stuff such as "asbestos is bad for your health" is the words of "a paranoid nutjob" then I believe that you are a disturbed individual who seriously should deal with your issues.
to which I replied by pointing out a hand full of examples of unregulated, widely available and extensively used products which have been scientifically proved to cause quite a lot of health problems
No, you replied with a bunch of FUD.
I'm not sure if your reading comprehension skills are that appalling or if you are simply a poor troll who isn't thinking things all the way through.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.