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Are we all going to get brain tumours?

  • 28-12-2012 09:41PM
    #1
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭


    20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

    Now we have beams going everywhere.

    Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

    Beams all over the place. :eek:

    No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

    In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

    and we all know smokers are jokers.

    Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.


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  • #2
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Run To Da Hills has got some competition at last. He won't be pleased.


  • #3
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Wearing a tinfoil hat protects you....keeps the voices at bay as well:D


  • #4
    nocoverart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    Doubt it! changing the subject ever so slightly... I always get a tingling sensation on my head. Very annoying!


  • #5
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    I'd be worried more about all the radiation from cosmic rays while flying long distance flights. That's more proven than radio and wireless waves of causing tumours as cosmic rays over long term really can while the latter has never been proven to do so.

    In other words not at all worried.


  • #6
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    I am just glad someone different started a thread.....yay brain tumors.


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  • #7
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    kincsem wrote: »
    Run To Da Hills has got some competition at last. He won't be pleased.
    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    Wearing a tinfoil hat protects you....keeps the voices at bay as well:D

    I have all the devices I mentioned above, I'm just wondering about the effects of all these beams/rays in the long term.

    Maybe I should take it to personal issues. :(

    *wipes tear, takes off Alex Jones t shirt and throws it in the fire*


  • #8
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    I can't help but doubt the Italian legal system having a landmark case in anything...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/italian-scientist-earthquake-condemns-court

    I wouldn't say for definite that there isn't potential unknown dangers of mobiles etc but there's no certainty at this point in time(No conclusive evidence in favour of them being cancer causing). Cancer rates are going to increase anyway, we're all living longer lives so more likely to get it at some point in our much longer lifetime. However treatments will also improve over the next 50 years. The benefits of technology will inevitably outweigh any pitfalls.


  • #9
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Yeah, because there was no electromagnetic radiation before humans invented it.


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    Are we all going to get brain tumours?
    Of course not - the next end of the world date will finish us off first! ;)


  • #11
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Biggins wrote: »
    Of course not - the next end of the world date will finish us off first! ;)

    Or that metorite that's gonna hit us! :(


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  • #12
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    We all have brain tumors, it is just a case if they believe them or not.


  • #13
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Beam me up, scotty! :pac:


  • #14
    Sarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Don't worry OP, the rise of antibacterial resistance will mean you will more than likely die from some type of bacterial infection long before the tumours get you.


  • #15
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    challengemaster wrote: »
    Beam me up, scotty! :pac:


    would that be to induce them, or are you just missing scotty.


  • #16
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I heard it gives you AIDS.


  • #17
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I heard it gives you AIDS.

    Me to, I got a prosthetic leg out of it.


  • #18
    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    What a cheerful thread.

    Excuse me while I go kill myself.


  • #19
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Sar_Bear wrote: »
    What a cheerful thread.

    Excuse me while I go kill myself.

    You have some nerve to ask to be excused.


  • #20
    carlmango11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    OP why are you under the impression that these wireless devices have a medical effect on our brains?

    I'm not saying they don't but I've never heard of any research that shows they do.


  • #21
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    There was probably more to worry about I'm the 50s and part of the 60s when atmospheric nuclear weapons tests were very popular!

    There's a huge difference between ionising (eg from nuclear sources or xrays etc) and non ionising eg radio waves, microwaves, light rats, infrared etc

    Ionising radiation will knock lumps our of your DNA. Non ionising radiation eg coming from your lovely open fire will just warm you up nicely!


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  • #22
    Biggins
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    carlmango11 wrote: »
    OP why are you under the impression that these wireless devices have a medical effect on our brains?

    I'm not saying they don't but I've never heard of any research that shows they do.

    My wireless phone has an effect on me.
    If the wife rings me and I don't answer it when out - I get concussion from a frying pan when I get home! :D


  • #23
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Super solar flares will fook you shiit up, but we never see them feel them, but it is possible we could die from them,

    this is the reason I make my misses walk in front of me everywhere we go.


  • #24
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    When Im driving I usually have my phone securely nestled between my legs. Im not sure why but its been that way for the last 11 years.

    I better get my balls checked for ball tumours.


  • #25
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    When Im driving I usually have my phone securely nestled between my legs. Im not sure why but its been that way for the last 11 years.

    I better get my balls checked for ball tumours.
    And your phone checked for STDs


  • #26
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Where To wrote: »
    And your phone checked for STDs

    Too late for that Im afraid.....theres an extra button on it now :(


  • #27
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

    Now we have beams going everywhere.

    Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

    Beams all over the place. :eek:

    No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

    In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

    and we all know smokers are jokers.

    Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.
    What happens if they are slowing the growth of tumours down or killing them and saving the future population?

    It could also be transmitting Ebola around the world, but who am I to say. Not a doctor.


  • #28
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

    Now we have beams going everywhere.

    Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

    Beams all over the place. :eek:

    No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

    In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

    and we all know smokers are jokers.

    Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.

    Well with the tumors "they say" can take many years to show up in people/especially children from long term exposure to microwave frequencies "they say" but ...after looking at a few video's about this with microwave frequencies transmitted via mobile phone masts and having a phone right on your ear most of the day then i think you might have a problem years down the line but there again more scientific tests need to be done.


  • #29
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Rabies wrote: »
    What happens if they are slowing the growth of tumours down or killing them and saving the future population?

    It could also be transmitting Ebola around the world, but who am I to say. Not a doctor.

    Do you work for the CDC by any chance ??? :D


  • #30
    Muppet Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers

    If you are seriously seriously worried about those devices in your home, just remember there are non wireless options available ;)

    Muppet Man


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  • #31
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    What if we're all born with a brain tumour that takes 80-90 years to kill us.

    *Keanu*


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