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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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