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Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by pawelpro on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:51AM (#33591239)
Non-ionizing.
Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by askvictor on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:22AM (#33591438)
Probably non-iodizing too.
Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by tsimionescu on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:23AM (#33591442)
To be fair, the radiation is also non-iodizing!
Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by Eleison23 on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:32AM (#33591824)
So it does not need to carry the FDA's fake warning label?
Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by mensetmanusman on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:50AM (#33592759)
Radioactive decay emits neurons with enough energy to strip electrons from molecules that it shoots through.

This is how it can tear apart DNA, which would chemically react after impact/ion generation (stripped electrons), and cause cancer.

Re:Starlink User Terminal Modchip by tsimionescu on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:09AM (#33592894)
I'm pretty sure no radioactive decay has ever been observed emitting a neuron (a brain cell), though you probably mean "neutron", which would be correct.

I was only making a joke - "iodizing" radiation would be radiation that causes something to react with iodine, which no known form of radiation would. The GP meant "ionizing" radiation, which is what you are describing as well.

Now that you mention it, I suppose it's possible for ionizing radiation to cause something to react with iodine, making it "iodizing" radiation as well.

Either way, radio waves are non-ionizing radiation. To the extent that they can create problems in the human body, they will do it by causing heating (like microwaves), not by stripping off electrons to create ions (and certainly not by forcing other molecules to react with iodine).