nickolay1 wrote:In my experience, very few truly understand them.
My point was that you don't have to. You just need to have a stupendous epiphany and realize that radios recieve radio waves.
Considering the popularity of the myth that cell-phone radio waves can ignite gasoline vapour and make gas station pumps explode ...
Where do they believe this? I want to whip out my cell phone at the nearest gas station and pretend to be a terrorist. "Stay back, or I'll call Angie's Psychic Service at $2.00 an hour!"
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
Seriously. I tried to explain to a servo operator that it was bullshit once, and he said 'nah, I saw a video when I joined up'. Years later I worked a few months at a servo, and THEY SHOWED ME THE VIDEO. Multinational fuel retailers believe it and tell their staff that it's true.
So what DO they do when you try to call someone from a gas station? Surely someon somewhere must have been forcibly removed from the premises. Then it would've gotten on the news and been debunked.
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
wolveraptor wrote:So what DO they do when you try to call someone from a gas station? Surely someon somewhere must have been forcibly removed from the premises. Then it would've gotten on the news and been debunked.
By whom? The government? A bunch of lawyers and bureaucrats who don't know science from shit? The cops? With all due respect to police officers, they don't know shit about science either. The media? Don't make me laugh. All of those people will just say that it was lucky that there was no explosion.
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Taking Starks point, I really do wonder about the state of education after I graduated high school. Sure there were dumb kids in my time. In French class the teacher had to teach several people how to read analogue time, because they were so used to digital.
But in a recent newspaper article of some high school kids, most of them didn't even know what the holocaust was. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted. And with moronic education ministers touting ID as a legitimate subject, I am starting to feel the first twinges of fear for the education in my state.
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wolveraptor wrote:How the hell does that demonstrate advanced thinking skills? It just means you know that what radio waves are. Hell, even if you didn't , you could easily guess that your car's radio uses them, and they must be harmless. I suppose that could be interpreted as "use of reasoning" but honestly, who in 8th grade doesn't know what radio waves are?
Considering the popularity of the myth that cell-phone radio waves can ignite gasoline vapour and make gas station pumps explode ...
I don't know much about how cellphones are constructed, but isn't there the possibility that a short-circuit may occur within a malfunctioning phone and cause a spark?
I seem to vaguely recall receiving a mild shock from a cellphone once.
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