Can't see this posted anywhere,
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/h...s-dream-woman/
Crazy lady.
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Can't see this posted anywhere,
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/h...s-dream-woman/
Crazy lady.
You'd think it was pretty easy to run tests on her to find out if she's telling the truth....
"Right Miss Figes, what can you feel?"
100 fingers - 802.11b
500 fingers - 802.11a
1000 fingers - 802.11g
Bloody pulp lying on floor - 802.11n
:lol:
... God help her if she gets within 20 feet of a microwave oven while it is operating.
Serously, this whole thing sounds like the worst sort of junk science and paranoia. WiFi operates on the same band as microwave ovens, and while microwave ovens have sheilding, it is not perfect, and detectable amounts of microwaves can be detected using 2.4GHz band scanners.
Anyway, if she is senstive to radio transmitons in those bands, how is she arround bluetooth mobiles, cordless phone, baby monitors etc?
i can hear crt tellys and monitors. perhaps its actually the sound of DEATH and we should ban them?
My crt makes a very high pitch noise, not noticeable once up and running, but when the pc is POSTing, it's quite audible..
Surely if she can feel wifi waves, she is susceptible to just about every form of electromagnetic radiation?
You never know, i leave it to you budding scientists to prove her wrong. Real or not, once its in the ladys mind i don't see anyone convincing her its not dangerous or real.
if she's right then she will probably die. problem solves itself?
^ lol harsh, but fair.
Let's face it, if Wireless Radio was invented now it'd be banned on the grounds that it MIGHT be dangerous.
I once saw a protestor arguing on BBC News about the "Dangers" of mobile phone masts near schools, while the Crystal Palace transmitter was in the background. The mobile phone company mouthpiece pointed out that the BBC mast was probably putting about 100X more energy into the kids than the mobile phone mast.
It's actually caused by her dressing as a keyboard.
Case closed.
I do not understand at all how this woman can actually 'feel' (supposedly anyway), let alone how on earth she could feel those 'quite extreme' symptoms.
Anybody have any idea what kind of frequency waves Wifi equipment emits?
"Except for 802.11a, which operates at 5 GHz, Wi-Fi uses the spectrum near 2.4 GHz,"
hang on..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11...alth_concerns/
"Stowe School, the Buckinghamshire public school, also removed part of its wireless network after a teacher became ill. Michael Bevington, a classics teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach,"
oh dear its not an isolated case?
i really must use this excuse at work.. thankfully the pub is a wireless free zone, perhaps relocation there is necessary
"such a violent reaction"
punching the children?
I hate it when those wireless signals punch me.. the naughty buggerers
Ha ha ha, I'd love to meet these people, take one of those usb wireless dongles and wave it around at them, see if they flinch.
Get one to sit between two of you playing mario kart :P
http://www.supermansupersite.com/defeated.jpg
WIFI signals! powers....fading......
lol this thread has brightened up my evening a tad!
This should be easy to test. Set up a WiFi network that can be turned off and see if the woman can detect when it is turned on. Just so she can't see any blinking lights or other non 2.4Ghz information about the state of the system.
In the unlikely event that there is an issue with mobile phone radiation though, more phone masts would limit the exposure.Quote:
Originally Posted by KBeee
Due to the inverse square law, if there is anything to worry about with mobile phones, it would be from the handset, not the mast (due it's proximity to your head)
Mobiles phones alter their power output depending of how far they are from the mast, so more masts means the handset emits less power.
Due to the number of kids that have mobiles these days, maybe we should set up a pressure group to lobby for all schools to have a mobile mast of their own?
Awww come off it. What if she really can 'feel' the signals?
What would impress me more is if she could tell the passwords used on the wireless networks she can detect.
I wonder if I can use that as an excuse for not going to work..
Wonder how long it will be before someone sues a shop for selling them evil wifi equipment?
I'd like to have her powers too. Would be awsome.
Heheheh!Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
I liked the comments at the end of the original story (if you follow the "Read" link on Engadget through to ThisIsLondon).
But why are they all Americans if it's ThisIsLondon.co.uk?! :O_o1:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Yarbrough, Las Vegas
cause "the world is America, and London is somewhere in the world.. maybe somewhere in Europe? we haven't bombed it/threatened to bomb it yet so it cant be the middle east"
Its nothing new. The girl is just 'pickin up the vibes'. We can all do this.
Some people see ghosts, others, pick up WiFi's
Its all sound, all vibration.
more precisely "electromagnetic radiation", not sound ;)
ive got this special talent where if you shine carbon dioxide lasers into my hand, it melts. im special that way:D
Don't you know?Quote:
Originally Posted by chicken
They check sites like that to see what type of area they are going to be moving to once they come to the UK and then stay for 60 years only to then get caught, say their british and have no passport to back this up as per the other threads ;)
Or perhaps no one under the age of 16 should be allowed to have a mobile phone?Quote:
Originally Posted by capt_cornflake
That would sort out a LOT more pressing issues....
yes, because people under 16 dont drink, smoke or shag when they feel like itQuote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
*wooooooosh*
Oh dear....I just nearly got run over by the bandwagon!
I can hear in the distance government departments removing wireless and schools up and down the land frowning (yes frowning hard!) on wireless signals!
Its a shame they don't cite evidence of the cause...still you don't need that anymore. It'll get worse when people work out what WiMAX is...