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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."
Better save it for when the real enemies (the MAFIAA and their cronies) come calling.
Typical editors (not just here but in general). They change the words to "improve" the article or story, but then they create a logical fallacy/ plot flaw.
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So, if you measure it at 5 feet, then 10 feet would be half that power, and 20 feet 1/16 power.
Oh, try 1 foot! Then it's half at two feet, 1/16 at 4 feet, and now just 1/400 at 20 feet!
Try using angstroms as your measurement base next time. You can manufacture a hugely small number that way! Not that it changes the actual power level at the distance in question...
This situation calls for professional testing and measurements, and whether or not the local codes on radiation load in living areas are both valid and being enforced.
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