It will be hard to produce the scientific evidence necessary to legislate some constraint by wireless and broadcast service providers who will be bombarding us with emag energy, in our homes, while we sleep... All for the cost of licenses paid to support the beauracracy of some government regulatory agency?
I look at it this way: This level of ambient energy wasn't around while life on this planet (us) was evolving, why should we assume it will be harmless? We didn't develop radio- and microwave protection the way we did melanin for the sun's energy. There's no reason to believe lifelong exposure to increased communications spectrum energy is inherently benign to humans. We're not going to drop dead, but there could be accumulated affects to living tissue.
These technologies which affect users and nonusers alike should have to demonstrate their safety before deployment, not after an infrastructure is deployed and depended on by millions of users.
There has to be nodes of safer frequencies, ones that affect living cells less than others. Keep it simple, limit the public spectrum to the frequencies least likely to kill the test rats.
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It will be hard to produce the scientific evidence necessary to legislate some constraint by wireless and broadcast service providers who will be bombarding us with emag energy, in our homes, while we sleep... All for the cost of licenses paid to support the beauracracy of some government regulatory agency?
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I look at it this way: This level of ambient energy wasn't around while life on this planet (us) was evolving, why should we assume it will be harmless? We didn't develop radio- and microwave protection the way we did melanin for the sun's energy. There's no reason to believe lifelong exposure to increased communications spectrum energy is inherently benign to humans. We're not going to drop dead, but there could be accumulated affects to living tissue.
These technologies which affect users and nonusers alike should have to demonstrate their safety before deployment, not after an infrastructure is deployed and depended on by millions of users.
There has to be nodes of safer frequencies, ones that affect living cells less than others. Keep it simple, limit the public spectrum to the frequencies least likely to kill the test rats.
...But Think of the Children!!