Easy way to win the Amazing Randi's million dollar challenge for supernatural powers. If you get sick when they turn the wi-fi on and feel better when they turn it off, you have the ability to detect 2.4GHz radiation with your body.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @05:45AM (#50393729)
Stick your hand in a microwave and defeat the door safety lock, then turn it on.
Bingo! The ability to detect 2.4GHz radiation with your body.
I don't think Randi would be too impressed though. Your claim that detection of such radiation would be a supernatural power is the kind of assumptive error in deductive logic that Randi is actually against.
The radiation in a microwave oven is confined to the internal cavity, with extremely small amounts leaking through the shields in a properly functioning machine. Routers broadcast outward by design.
I'm a microwave engineer, actually. Not ovens, though; radar. I still can't cook worth a darn.
What does Science have to say about this? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Easy way to win the Amazing Randi's million dollar challenge for supernatural powers. If you get sick when they turn the wi-fi on and feel better when they turn it off, you have the ability to detect 2.4GHz radiation with your body.
Re:What does Science have to say about this? (Score:0)
Stick your hand in a microwave and defeat the door safety lock, then turn it on.
Bingo! The ability to detect 2.4GHz radiation with your body.
I don't think Randi would be too impressed though. Your claim that detection of such radiation would be a supernatural power is the kind of assumptive error in deductive logic that Randi is actually against.
Re:What does Science have to say about this? (Score:5, Informative)
Are you not aware of the many orders of magnitude difference between WiFi and Microwave ovens.
Microwave Oven typically 600+ Watts or 600,000mW
Wifi Typically 5mW or 0.005 Watts
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Never seen it happen in reality.
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The radiation in a microwave oven is confined to the internal cavity, with extremely small amounts leaking through the shields in a properly functioning machine. Routers broadcast outward by design.
I'm a microwave engineer, actually. Not ovens, though; radar. I still can't cook worth a darn.
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I wonder how many of these Wifi hating fools use mobile phones or tablets or have smart TVs, consoles, laptops etc with WiFi built in.