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They do Thomas, but since it is in the air right next to the mast, nobody has access to it. The shroud has stickers on to warn anybody that may access the antenna from a cherry picker or similar. By the time you are at ground level you are well out of it, out friend the inverse square law see's to that. To get in the invisible perimeter, you'd need to be hovering in the air right in front of it.
On some rooftop sites there are exclusion zones, where walkways may lead people away from the front faces of antennas, but otherwise they are not of sufficient energy to erect perimeters around the whole site, the only reason they have fences in fields is for security.
The radio/TV transmitters that have large exclusion zones are in the 10's of kilowatt range, the mast near you is probably the sale as a light bulb.
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Well my point is it is a sliding scale, phone masts should be lower on the list that some of the items nobody worries about that they sit next to in the home, that's my point.
Microwaves have been around for 40 years, so I think you will be okay, I would say the shit meals most people put in them will kill them first.
Also, when you say 'nobody really knows', I'm not so sure. If you look at the science it's fairly clear on most of these things and there are very strict guidelines with RF. I've spent more time near antennas than most people will in a lifetime and it doesn't worry me in the slightest.
Unfortunately like many subjects people that know absolutely nothing on the science seem to spread more of the 'knowledge' than anybody else. It's a bit like the MMR / autism link on that score, there's nothing anybody can say even though the link has proven false.
I'm studying Aeronautical Engineering; so actually nothing on radiation, but i did learn all of those stuff during 'A' Levels.
I think oftentimes people are scared off by some structure emitting stuff they can't see. Then because that fear has consumed them so much, when scientists tell them that there's really no danger, they don't believe them.
My dad works in the government's radiation agency back in Singapore. He received a phonecall from someone suggesting to the government to build public housing away from any masts, satellite dish or petrol station. My dad told him to live in a forest.
I can assure you that just because you don't understand something, it doesn't mean no-one understands it. Quite the contrary in fact; these are all very well understood and you can even look them up if you want to learn.
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These are all very well understood, no matter how many times you claim they aren't. Much as you claim in hifi threads that electricity is some arcane mystery beyond the comprehension of man - and you're utterly, demonstrably wrong there too. Do, as I suggested, some research, and stop lying to yourself and others.
Stop trying to spread fear, it's beneath you.
I think honestly if you really think they could be killing you, you should try understanding them more. If your position was from knowledge you could at least present an argument as to why you think they are killing you slowly. But if you really understood them I don't think you would. I don't think a stance from ignorance is ever a good one. I've had strong opinions on things I didn't know much about and unfortunately the only solution was to go and understand the subject more, or suspend judgement until I could do so.
Obviously everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I have an issue with statements like this as it spreads to other uninformed people causing needless worry (which incedentally can be harmful to health). It's the same thing with anti vaxxers, something we don't understand could be killing us. The real danger is when people take these things to the next level and set out to prove them to be harmful, before even undertsanding them in the first place. I call that the 'siraxe' level.
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As I said earlier I've found definite evidence of skin irritation at a few millimetres distance over only a few days, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
That's still a much higher signal intensity than you would get from a transmitter mast unless you're right next to it though.
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Here's a paper from the United States National Cancer Institute on "Cell Phones and Cancer Risk":
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/cell-phones-fact-sheet#q4
Here's a fact sheet from the World Health Organisation entitled "Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile phones"
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/
When you have read those, go to the citations on this WIkipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health
It is impossible to prove a negative.
Where is your evidence that they're harmful?
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I agree that we're probably getting close to the point where it can be ruled out as a serious risk, but we're not there yet, and I don't think it's crazy to want to err on the side of caution until we can. I'm certainly not going to panic and give up using my phone - and my kids all have them too - it's just a fact of life nowadays.
But I have been able to prove that there is *some* effect on my body - only minor admittedly, but it happened quickly and was entirely repeatable (I didn't just swap pockets once, I did it several times and each time the skin irritation followed the phone, consistently) so at that point I have to wonder whether it could be doing other things that aren't so obvious.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein