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A Perfectly Normal Beast Started conversation Nov 30, 2001
Hello Zach
I have recently read an entry about microwave ovens written by Oedipus the Wart stragbasher which was edited by you. I think that it contains some very misleading misinformation about mobile phone emission, mostly in this paragraph:
The radio telephone is the latest use to which microwaves have been put. Aside from microwave-related stuff in cellular phones, telephone companies erect tall towers on hill tops, which then transmit telephone conversations to other towers using a 'tight-beam' of microwave radio energy focused using a microwave dish. This saves them going to all the trouble of laying a cable and is relatively harmless to people and cats, but does sometimes result in the occasional cooked bird falling out of the sky after inadvertently crossing the beam.
The bit about the birds is just not true. This is easily shown in another entry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A283213 - Mobile Phone Emission
Please have the microwave oven entry corrected.
Thank you for your time,
A Perfectly Abnormal Guy.
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A Perfectly Normal Beast Posted Nov 30, 2001
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