I need a career change, serious-ish thread

[suicidal_monkey]

I was going down hill fast, constant headaches, searing stomach pains at the slightest bit of stress, constantly tired etc.

weird, sounds just like the symptoms kids were complaining about getting at school - so they blamed it on radiation and banned wi-fi...:doh:

[Carr0t]

One of the secondary schools we provide a net connection to has just had some new kids come in, whose Dad is head of the 'parents against masts' group. He's convinced the PTA that it's affecting their kinds and managed to get them to insist that we remove all our radio kit from the roof (it was one of our core sites that we use to feed on to other schools. Out in the midst of Cumbria so fibre isn't an option), and that all the mobile phone kit up there gets taken down too.

Of course the headteachers and budgeting people are most annoyed, as they get a fair stack of cash from renting roof space to all those people. Plus of course if you actually pay attention to how these things work and one of the relevant physical laws (forget the name, as you move further from a source of radiation in a linear fashion it's effect on you exponentially decreases) then you only have to be a short distance from the antenna before your mobile phone in your pocket is doing more damage to your nads than the antenna is to any other part of you. And your phone is actually kicking out most radiation when it's reception is showing as the lowest (i.e. if the base station is a long way away/not in line of sight), as that's when it's having to try the hardest to reach a base station.

Sorry, rant over. Personal annoyance of mine. I bet this guy's kids still have mobiles.

[suicidal_monkey]

physical laws (forget the name, as you move further from a source of radiation in a linear fashion it's effect on you exponentially decreases) then you only have to be a short distance from the antenna before your mobile phone in your pocket is doing more damage to your nads than the antenna is to any other part of you. And your phone is actually kicking out most radiation when it's reception is showing as the lowest (i.e. if the base station is a long way away/not in line of sight), as that's when it's having to try the hardest to reach a base station.

I think you're after the inverse square law. radiated power received on a given surface decreases at something like the cube of the distance of that surface from the emitter. Rural transmitters put out something like 10W, urban much less, and they're typically something like 10m above the ground (there's a regulation of some minimum) and if you do the maths you'll find that your handset pumps way more radiation into your head than the mast would if you were standing directly beneath it at the bottom of the tower (ignoring the radiation pattern) In fact you'll find that what with tv signals, radio (as in radio1) signals, background radiation from the sun etc...

If you fancy fighting the fight, or helping the school to stand up to ignorance (I reckon they'd be happy from the financial angle if they can see sufficient arguments that make sense) then there's enough info out there to help combat these arguments. It's a kind of zealotry really. All real studies have failed to find any problems. I know people who spend their research pounds strapping antennae to fake saline-gel-filled body parts to test absorbance etc. My only advice is to avoid attacking the anti-wifi people. Rather state the facts, it's a game of politics where you have to sway the masses with reason before they become immune to it.

every time someone or some organisation gives in to the ranting mob who have no real facts there's another nail in the coffin

[Nefertem]

Sorry for jumping in to this serious thread with a not so serious reply, but this really reminded me of this:



Sorry, Im done now
I wish you the best of luck stryker.. Go get em tiger :flirty:

[Stryker]

Funny comic while strangly depressing

Mate put me onto the new scientist website incase I fancied an I.T job within research.  Pretty tempting playing with academic server clusters etc....  I fear it would burn out my IT fuse even faster though.........

[Penfold]

Lol Nefertem,

That reminded me of this one:




:lmfao:

PEN