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Re:5G and Shannon’s Law by JoeAltmaier on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:37AM (#23447639)
Oh cut it out. Everybody is made of water. Even babies. Nothing penetrates.

"Think of the children!" is getting pretty tired sounding.

Re:5G and Shannon’s Law by dang on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:58PM (#23453441)
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. Not cool.

We've had to ask you this multiple times before. Continuing to do it will eventually get your account banned, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on.

Re:5G and Shannon’s Law by JoeAltmaier on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:50AM (#23457629)
Yes, I regret that comment. I apologize.
Re:5G and Shannon’s Law by owenversteeg on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:15AM (#23447946)
Excuse me?

Someone said mm-waves cannot go through skin. I mentioned that the scientific consensus is that babies' skin is thin enough that mm-waves penetrate the dermis. I was absolutely not starting a "think of the children".

>> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The established consensus is that mm-waves do penetrante the dermis of babies. Even recent research can agree on that. Here's one recent source.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334078749_Millimete...

Re:5G and Shannon’s Law by ac29 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:32PM (#23449473)
Its hard to take your arguments seriously when you link to a paper on military research on a weapon that "can heat the skin to a temperature of 130F" and then compare it to cellular RF emissions, which would typically encounter your skin at a power level in the range of 10^-12W (-90dBm). It doesnt matter which layers of skin that does or doesnt penetrate, its just not going to do much of anything.