by TechMage » Oct 25, 2002 @ 3:15am
I'm not a tree hugger RICoder. I just give a damn about the human race. Maybe most of you are smart ass science wizards, but if you would get your ignorant heads out of your butts and study a little history then maybe you would respect mankind and all that it has achieved. Most of you have no idea what you have and what it has cost our ancestors to get it. A nuclear war could destroy thousands of years of invention and everything else that we hold dear as humans (literature, philosophy, religion, science, art, etc). Just because we can do something (like make nuclear bombs, have abortions, cut down rain forests, etc), doesn't mean we should. It's sad that we abouse and pollute science with our own agendas like money and power. Oh, well. We will change, or we will destroy ourselves. Whichever comes first.
This is OT but related to my point. Recently there have been alot of focus on weither or not cell phones cause cancer. There are pros and cons to the arguement, but I just read this on yahoo news yesterday. I guess some scientists found out that radio waves from cell phones accellerate the growth of cancerous cells (it fucks up the RNA code of a cell). They don't know yet what they do to healthy cells. But a previous study by some other scientists said that cell phones do not cause cancer at all(in animals at least). If cell phones prove to be cancerous, then that is going to seriously effect the cell phone industry. Over the past 10 years cell phones have become more and more popular.
I recently noticed that a few cell phone companies are offering unlimited time. Now, it's common knowledge that analog phones emit radiation all the time (that's why almost all cell phones are digital now) and cell phones emit radiation in pulses. Weither you are using an analog or digital phone, spening 20 or more hours a week (which is what the phone companies encourage people to do, with "any time minutes") on a cell phone, blasting radiation in your head is stupid! I don't care if popular science agrees says that it is harmfull or not. The fact is that you are putting radiation in your head and thus your brain. It's common knowledge that we take in enough radiation from the earth and sun, why the hell would we want to expose ourselves to more of it? It's all about $money$, and the general consumer is stupid enough to believe everything they are told. People in general are sheep and a few are shepards and wolves. What are you? I love technology (hence "Tech"Mage) like anybody else, but sometimes just because we can do something in science, doesn't mean we should.
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