early in 2019 several companies began to
roll out their new 5g cellular services
in major cities across the u.s. these
quiet rollouts served as test beds for a
host of new 5g cell phones as well as
ways to stress test the technology
itself and as happens with any new
technology some people immediately
started freaking out and the Internet
was there to happily help them run wild
with rumors and conspiracy theories
about the dangers of 5g so what's really
going on with 5g is it going to cook our
brains and kill us how dangerous is 5g
to start fear of new technologies is
nothing new especially when they play an
immediate impact in our day to day life
in the late 1800s cities around the
world began to install electric street
lighting while many cities already
enjoyed the benefit of gas lamps these
were expensive to maintain generally
only covered in small areas of major
cities and actually did have an element
of danger since gases
you know explosive electric lamps
however were cheap and could all be
turned on and off with the switch of a
single button no longer would
lamplighters need to spend hours each
evening going around the city lighting
individual lamps one by one and the new
electric light technology promised to
make our glowing cities well lit and
keep people safe while out at night it's
not just in the rich neighborhoods where
gas lighting was popular
while streetlights are abacus across any
modern nation the plan to string up
electric street lighting across the
entire city was met by a wave of fear
from the population many feared the
health hazards of lighting up a city at
night as it would throw off people's
ability to tell night from day and thus
ruin sleep cycles massive health hazards
were predicted as millions of people had
their sleep schedules turned on their
heads it was feared a wave of madness
would overtake humanity but no such
thing happened and those early fear
mongers would likely have had a heyday
with our modern 24/7 lifestyles
religious figures got in on the outrage
to warning that lighting up entire
cities would violate God's natural laws
that's because God had clearly made a
difference between night and day and if
we were to do away with that
divinely-inspired segregation of light
and dark then who knows demons may burst
forth from the mouth of hell cats and
dogs would become best friends and up
would become down the Vatican feared
offending God's own sleep cycles so much
that it
we banned gas lights in the 1830s it
might be tempting to laugh at the
ignorance of zealots in the ignorant
masses of the 1800s but you'd be doing
so at the risk of being laughed at
yourself by future generations today
we're afraid of everything from
chemtrails to GMO foods despite common
sense and decade's worth of scientific
studies you're free to laugh at the
ignorance of 1800 citizens who believed
electric lights would drive everyone
insane as long as you don't mind that in
200 years you'll be laughed at for being
afraid of vaccines if everyone hasn't
died due to super measles by then but of
all the fears we have about our modern
world
the latest to hit the internet and rumor
mills around the world our fears over 5g
cellular service but what even is 5g 5g
is simply another evolution in wireless
information transfer technology 5g
literally means fifth-generation but as
opposed to previous generations 5g
operates at much higher frequencies than
previously used the higher frequencies
allow 5g service to deliver greater
packets of data with the potential
estimated to be up to 10 gigabytes per
second this could dramatically change
our wireless world and promises to make
everything from augmented and virtual
reality to smart autonomous vehicles a
fixture of our lives unfortunately
though as you increase the frequency of
a carrier wave its range is dramatically
decreased as is its ability to penetrate
through solid objects like walls this is
why the military very often uses
extremely low frequency bandwidth to
transmit messages most famously with its
fleet of nuclear submarines who use a
global system of extremely low frequency
transmitters to communicate with its
boats from anywhere in the world mention
high frequency outside of a science
classroom though and the public very
quickly begins to soil their collective
pantaloons on one hand the fears are
justified after all history is full of
examples of poorly understood
technologies being marketed to an
ignorant public it wasn't too long ago
that ionizing radiation was promised as
a cure-all for well everything you could
find radioactive elements in everything
from makeup powders to breakfast cereals
all of the promise that ionizing
radiation would boost your vigor and
refresh your health of course it did
pretty much the opposite and it didn't
take long for people to figure it out
yet
today unlike yesteryear we have
international systems of scientific
checks and balances which worked very
well to stamp out bias and scientific
deception while a massive conspiracy to
cook everyone's brains with cell phones
it's not entirely impossible it would be
an extremely difficult scheme to sneak
past the thousands of watchdog agencies
all connected by the global internet
plus it doesn't pass the first point of
failure for any conspiracy theory common
sense if cell phone companies
purposefully developed a product that
irradiated its customers those same
companies would a be buried under
mountains of lawsuits and be not have
consumers anymore when people flat-out
refuse to use cell phones out of fear
fears over cell phone radiation are
nothing new though and have plagued the
device's ever since their mainstream
adoption in the 1990s all matter of
products have been marketed promising to
protect you from the risk of
electromagnetic radiation from your evil
cell phone most of which were nothing
more than snake oil that did little if
anything to block the radio frequencies
emitted by your cell phone ongoing
public fears have prompted scientific
study after scientific study and yet no
valid study has yet to prove that normal
cell phone use poses a real risk to
humans in fact back when killing people
with radio waves was something the
Japanese were actually trying to do
during World War two the best they
managed with extremely powerful modified
radar dishes was to kill a rabbit at a
distance of a few dozen feet and even
then only after 10 minutes and using an
antenna several meters across and
locking the rabbit up in a cage where it
couldn't move after much careful
scientific study by our own infographics
research staff we were able to conclude
that your phone is in fact far smaller
than a three meter wide antenna and you
are far larger than a rabbit thanks to
the United States and the Soviet Union
doing their darn best to kill every
human on planet earth for 40 years
though we have an understandable
aversion to anything with the word
radiation in it
this explains why people are so
concerned over cell phones which blast
out electromagnetic radiation into their
environment coupled with the fact that
you typically then put these devices up
to your head in order to speak into them
we can see where the concerns over
radiation affecting people's brains come
from it's important to understand the
differences between the different types
of radiation though the first and most
feared is ionizing
Aviation which is one of the types of
radiation emitted by a nuclear explosion
this is the same stuff that comic book
said would turn us into super-powered
Spider Man except unless your preferred
superpower is the ability to get cancer
then no it won't
ionizing radiation is harmful to living
beings because of the energy in its
extremely short wavelength and high
frequency waves which can knock
electrons loose from atoms and seriously
damage the molecules inside your body
non ionizing radiation on the other hand
doesn't carry enough energy to break
molecular bonds and the best that they
can do is cause heating by vibrating
molecules at high speeds this is exactly
how your microwave works
it emits microwave radiation with high
enough energy to vibrate water molecules
in your food generating heat which warms
the food but with 5g using wavelengths
similar to those in a microwave how in
the world could our cellphones not end
up cooking our brains the answer to that
question has to do with power a
microwave can emit anywhere between 500
and 1,000 watts of power which actually
is enough to kill if you were to crawl
inside a giant microwave and turn on the
popcorn setting that is it also emits
this much energy continuously while a
cell phone only emits a few watts of
power and even this comes in short
bursts if you don't believe physics
though then you can believe the tests
done on live animals to see how
dangerous the electromagnetic radiation
given off by the frequencies used by
cellphones are one ten-year study
tracked colonies of mice and rats which
had their full bodies exposed to radio
frequencies used by 2g and 3g cell
services the test subjects were exposed
for 18 hours a day in intervals of 10
minutes on end 10 minutes off starting
before they were even born while inside
their mother's and lasting throughout
the normal course of their lives the
power level of the RF radiation used
ranged from above to slightly below
permitted levels for cellular devices
and after a decade the study found no
direct correlation between RF radiation
and ill health effects given the far
less exposure humans are subjected to
and the physical properties of five g's
very high frequency waves scientists
have expressed little fear that 5g will
be dangerous for starters the waves are
so poor at propagating through objects
and even just empty air
companies are forced to build mini
towers every city block or so and in
consumer tests of 5g devices earlier
this year most lost service after
getting only a few hundred feet away
from them this doesn't bode well for 5g
waves trying to penetrate through the
layers of your skin in skull in order to
get to your defenseless brain and start
cooking it nevertheless we fully expect
that fear mongering and rumors will
continue to spread as 5g rolls out
around the world and we also don't
expect to be disappointed by the
countless snake oil salesmen and their
crazy inventions that promise to protect
you from the evil cellphone radiation of
course we know that you know that this
is exactly what we'd say if we were in
fact part of a major conspiracy and in
the pocket of all the major cell phone
carriers and manufacturers which is why
we encourage you to do your own research
into the difference between ionizing and
non-ionizing radiation but we're also
happy if you don't think we're in fact
part of a conspiracy by aliens from the
SETI Reticuli system to secretly cook
all your delicious brains with radio
waves so as to make them the perfect
temperature and consistency for
harvesting do you plan on buying a 5g
cellphone what do you think about them
building mini cell towers everywhere let
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