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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by swiley on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:54AM (#21312245)
Except our pockets (unless you wear tinfoil pants) and many other materials are transparent at those wavelengths which makes it a lot less crazy.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by StavrosK on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:06AM (#21312383)
You don't think making an antenna that can detect an LED shining in a flat miles away is crazy because pockets are transparent?
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by lolc on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:38PM (#21315707)
In darkness our eyes can easily detect a 1W LED from kilometers away.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by StavrosK on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:24PM (#21316183)
But can they distinguish a specific 300 mW LED in a stadium with tens of thousands of other LEDs next to it?
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by pcnix on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:38PM (#21317044)
If it were a different color, yes. If each of them were a different color, your eye would still be able to, as long as you had enough focus. So the analogy holds pretty well.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by swiley on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:03PM (#21330081)
My understanding is that healthy human eyes are able to detect individual photons.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by swiley on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:10AM (#21312420)
No. Amateur radio operators have done it, and it’s not difficult to imagine how one would.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by burnte on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:19AM (#21313272)
That doesn't make it any less amazing.
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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by StavrosK on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:15AM (#21312482)
Indeed, nothing is difficult to imagine how to do if the method is common knowledge.
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