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questioningespecialy · 8 months

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Are EMF’s safe? (come, child, ruin your night)

y’all ready for this? I’m not anti-5G, btw turn your wifi off before bed and maybe stop keepin’ ya phone so close all the time

But like... why, though?

I've had my suspicions about cell towers being hazardous to health for a few years now and felt convinced enough to not bother researchin' it for confirmation. Now that I'm blah blah blah, I decided to actually bother. Since it got kinda heavy, I had to ask myself if I should put in hella more effort creatin' a damn research report of sorts for y'all asses present the info for others like it's a damn PSA. And my conscious won. T~T

But like... what, though?

A base station (aka: cell phone tower) is that shit you see everywhere but never notice. It's usually tall af and has panel antennas on it. It's "used for the transmission and reception of the radio signals between the mobile phones and the network." The problem with 'em is the electromagnetic field (EMF) their equipment can give off... for half a mile. 😐

In short, they've been found to cause health problems. Like cancer. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Fun fact, panel antennas can be installed on the roof/side of buildings that may be directly across the street from someone's workplace... with the antenna at their elevation. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Real Quick

For those who don’t trust EMF-Portal, it (sometimes) has links to the study/article. Full-text PDF can be requested directly from the authors on ResearchGate.net’s article for the study. Full-text PDF can (usually) be found online in English and German with the right search.

5 Studies

V/m = volts per meter 7191 cancer deaths were selected according to the above mentioned criterias out of a total of 22,493 cancer deaths. The most significant causes were lung cancer (19.6 %), stomach cancer (14.1 %), prostate cancer (12.6 %), and breast cancer (11.5 %). The mean electric field intensity of the measurements in 2008 was 7.32 V/m, varying from 0.4 to 12.4 V/m. At a distance of up to 100 m [328.08 ft], the absolute number of deaths was 3569, (49.6 % of all deaths), the mortality rate was 43.4 persons per 10,000 [0.43%] and the relative risk was 1.35 in relation to the mortality rate of 32.1 per 10,000 [0.32%] inhabitants of the entire Belo Horizonte municipality [in Minas Gerais, Brazil]. A mortality rate of 34.8 per 10,000 [0.35%] inhabitants was observed for the residents living within 500 m [1,640.42 ft] of the base stations; this rate decreased for residents living farther from the base stations.

—Mortality by neoplasia and cellular telephone base stations in the Belo Horizonte municipality, Minas Gerais state, Brazil; Science of The Total Environment (2011); EMF-Portal

ResearchGate.net’s article

The result of the study [of 967 permanent residents] shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was significantly higher among those [320] patients who had lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 metres [1,312.34 ft] from the cellular transmitter site, which has been in operation since 1993, compared to those patients living further away, and that the patients fell ill on average 8 years earlier. In the years 1999-2004, ie after five years' operation of the transmitting installation, the relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the area in the proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants of Naila[,Germany,] outside the area.

—The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer (original title: ‘Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz’); Umwelt · Medizin · Gesellschaft (2004); ResearchGate.net

EMF-Portal

9 cancer cases were observed in the first period 2000 - 2004 and 14 cases in the period 2005 - June 2007 among [1,283] residents living within a radius of 400 m [1,312.34 ft] to a mobile phone base station [in Germany (Hennen, suburb of Iserlohn, Westfalia)]. The mean age of disease onset was 59.2 years in the first period and 59.3 years in the second period in comparison to the expected value of 66.4 years evaluated from the Saarland Cancer Registry. The authors concluded, that a statistically significant increase of cancer incidence was observed 5 years after the base station has been started operating.

—[Incidence of cancer adjacent to a mobile telephone basis station in Westfalia] (original title: Krebsinzidenz von Anwohnern im Umkreis einer Mobilfunksendeanlage in Westfalen - Interview-basierte Piloterhebung und Risikoschätzung); Umwelt · Medizin · Gesellschaft (2009); EMF-Portal

Area A: ≤ 350 m / 1148.3 ft from base station Area B: > 350 m / 1148.3 ft from base station Of the 622 people of area A, 8 cases of different kinds of cancer were diagnosed in a period of one year (from July 1997 - June 1998). The cancer incidence rate was 129 cases per 10,000 [1.29%] persons per year in area A compared to 16/10,000 [0.16%] in area B and 31/10,000 [0.31%] in the town of Netanya [in Israel]. Relative cancer rates for females were 10.5 for area A, 0.6 for area B and 1 for Netanya. The authors conclude that the study indicates an association between increased incidence of cancer and living in proximity to a mobile phone base station.

—Increased incidence of cancer near a cell-phone transmitter station; International Journal of Cancer Prevention (2004); EMF-Portal

ResearchGate.net

Took forever to get this damn infographic just right. >.>

A long-term study was conducted in Germany to investigate the influence of a mobile phone base station on neurotransmitters under true-to-life conditions. µW/m² = microWatts per square meter 24 out of 60 participants were exposed to a power density of < 60 µW/m², 20 participants to 60 - 100 µW/m², and 16 participants to more than 100 µW/m² . The values of the stress hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline grew significantly during the first 6 months after starting the GSM base station; the values of the precursor substance dopamine substantially decreased in this time period. The initial condition was not restored even after 1.5 years. Due to the not regulable chronic difficulties of the stress balance, the phenylethylamine levels dropped until the end of the investigation period. The effects show a dose-effect relationship and are situated far under the valid limit values.

—[Modification of clinically important neurotransmitters under the influence of modulated high-frequency fields - A long-term study under true-to-life conditions] (original title: Veränderung klinisch bedeutsamer Neurotransmitter unter dem Einfluss modulierter hochfrequenter Felder - Eine Langzeiterhebung unter lebensnahen Bedingungen); Umwelt · Medizin · Gesellschaft (2011); EMF-Portal

ResearchGate.net’s German article EMF:data page (German)

While I did find 17 different figures for it, I’mma save myself the bother of describin’ dat noise and not include ‘em thanks~.

But what does the FCC say?

FCC.gov’s conclusion seems to be that they’re generally safe for civilian life as long as you don’t get close and aren’t directly in front of the antenna’s trajectory (don’t climb a fuckin’ tower or enter those rooms/buildings). A very “it’s fine” set of conclusions tbh. Hella contrasted by other sources.

Nonetheless… below is the index...

FCC’s RF Safety FAQ Index:

What is "radiofrequency" and microwave radiation?

What is non-ionizing radiation?

How is radiofrequency energy used?

How is radiofrequency radiation measured?

What biological effects can be caused by RF energy?

Can people be exposed to levels of radiofrequency radiation and microwaves that could be harmful?

Can radiofrequency radiation cause cancer?

What research is being done on RF biological effects?

What levels are safe for exposure to RF energy?

Why has the FCC adopted guidelines for RF exposure?

How safe are mobile phones? Can they cause cancer?

How can I obtain the specific absorption rate (SAR) value for my mobile phone?

Do "hands-free" ear pieces for mobile phones reduce exposure to RF emissions? What about mobile phone accessories that claim to shield the head from RF radiation?

Can mobile phones be used safely in hospitals and near medical telemetry equipment?

Are wireless and PCS towers and antennas safe?

Are cellular and other radio towers located near homes or schools safe for residents and students?

Are emissions from radio and television antennas safe?

How safe are radio antennas used for paging and "two-way" communications? What about "push-to-talk" radios such as "walkie-talkies?"

How safe are microwave and satellite antennas?

Are RF emissions from amateur radio stations harmful?

What is the FCC's policy on radiofrequency warning signs? For example, when should signs be posted, where should they be located and what should they say?

Can implanted electronic cardiac pacemakers be affected by nearby RF devices such as microwave ovens or cellular telephones?

Does the FCC regulate exposure to radiation from microwave ovens, television sets and computer monitors?

Does the FCC routinely monitor radiofrequency radiation from antennas?

Does the FCC maintain a database that includes information on the location and technical parameters of all the towers and antennas it regulates?

Which other federal agencies have responsibilities related to potential RF health effects?

Can local and state governmental bodies establish limits for RF exposure?

Where can I obtain more information on potential health effects of radiofrequency energy?

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) prepared a [2012] report of its investigation into safety concerns related to mobile phones. The report concluded that further research is needed to confirm whether mobile phones are completely safe for the user, and the report recommended that the FDA take the lead in monitoring the latest research results.

Professional Opinion...

Safe Distance from Cell Towers…

It is also difficult to predict a safe distance from cell towers. For example, cell towers are designed to transmit most of their radio frequency (RF) energy horizontally. Some areas below the tower may have lower levels than locations farther away that are more in line with the vertical height of the antennas. The exposure from a cell tower will depend on the type of antennas, the number of antennas, how much the antennas are actually being used, the time of day, etc. The distance needed to reduce exposures down to the General Public Precautionary Level of 100 microwatts per meter squared (μW/m²) is often around a quarter of a mile (1320 feet) or more. Due to the uncertainty, on-site testing with a broadband RF test meter is strongly recommended. A German study reported that people living within 400 meters (1312 feet) of cell towers had over 3 times the normal rate for new cancers (City of Naila 2004). In an Israeli study, the relative risk for cancer was about 4 times greater within 350 meters (1148 feet) of the cell tower (Wolf et al. 1997). Based on findings like these, a minimum safety distance of 1/4 mile (1320 feet) might be considered prudent. (...) The suggestions for safety distances in this chart are generally based on Michael Neuert’s [engineer, licensed electrician, and health educator] professional on-site testing of the various EMF sources in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1992.

i know what i said

Based on the accumulated evidence, we recommend that IARC [the International Agency for Research on Cancer] re-evaluate its 2011 classification of the human carcinogenicity of RFR [radio-frequency radiation], and that WHO [the World Health Organization] complete a systematic review of multiple other health effects such as sperm damage. In the interim, current knowledge provides justification for governments, public health authorities, and physicians/allied health professionals to warn the population that having a cell phone next to the body is harmful, and to support measures to reduce all exposures to RFR.

—Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices; Front Public Health (2019 Aug 13); NCBI

Lookup (or pull out) your cellphone’s manual and search for the sections on “radio frequency exposure” and “Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) information” to see how close the phone can safely be kept near your body… and that it should be kept away from “the bellies of pregnant women and for teenagers, away from the lower abdomen.” 😐

For an informative giggle, here’s the “Harmful Cell Phones” segment from season 7 of The Colbert Report.

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chloeworships · 3 days

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FYI

does anyone know what the LORD is talking about? I am intrigued

NGL this was super cool to see.

Below are examples of a cell tower except the one the LORD showed me looked similar but completely distinct and was LARGE enough to hold a person🧍‍♂️

Are people trying to weaponize technology? 🤔

Is someone hiding a cell tower that enables them to communicate with others?

If you had seen this at first, second or third glance you wouldn’t have noticed it. It also kinda resembled a telephone line.

#cell towers #new tech #military #surveillance #just wowwwwwwww #pods

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dizzydispatch · 9 months

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The Tower

There's something ominous about cell towers.

They stand on hills or in clearings beyond forested acres, huge and unsettling, with their mysterious bracketing and wide panels that blot out the sun, the discs that stand in what almost seems a defiant opposition to the light of the sky.

They hide in plain sight, disguised under cathedral belfries and standing alongside the church bells that, long before telephone came along to usurp the role of mass communication, would ring out in code when something was wrong.

The day I took the CritiCall, I sat alone in a tiny room with one small window overlooking the county jail, visible through the trees only because of how starkly contrasted its rigid cinderblock construction was against the disorder of the natural world.

A fish tank bubbled softly from somewhere behind my chair, its sole occupant gazing at me with the indifference of a long-forgotten eldritch god. For a moment I imagined the fish had human teeth, teeth that were grinning at me, or perhaps through me, as it contemplated my inconsequence. I imagined its penetrating awareness of me filling that hour in which I took the exam, a frame of time that might have seemed as long as decades to me but was, for the fish, but a drop in an endless tank.

The fish itself would live a short life, meaningless when stacked against the century a human may live to see pass if cared for properly. But it would be replaced by another, as this had replaced the one before, and on and on until the end of time. I would later learn that his name was Echo. Fitting, for the creature whose existence was a mere echo of whatever paradigm he exists to facsimile. How many Echos had there been, and how many were still yet to come... come... come...?

Standing adjacent to the jail out my window was a communications tower that seemed to rise from deep within the earth, or perhaps from whatever lies beneath. The tower leaned down to where I could hear its voice, and whispered in magnificent bellows just two words: Brace yourself.

There was an echo to its endless voice, which had not the capacity for gentleness. Echo stirred in his tank, caught up in the resonance that disturbed his shallow water.

Once upon a time, the Tower was a symbol of destruction, a harbinger of change. Upright, it meant disaster, upheaval, unrest. Inversion meant delay of the inevitable, resistance to changes deemed necessary by fate. The Tower was feared not for its intrinsic danger, but of what it foretold. Destruction. Suffering.

The day I went in for my test, I had drawn from the tarot deck the Tower. Something was coming, and at the time of the omen I was not yet sure what it would be.

But then the call, the invitation to try my hand at the career of my dreams. Maybe this was what it had promised. I was heading into a great unknown, and the reminder of the draw, one that foretold a painful transition drawing nearer on my horizon, echoed in my mind as I stood beneath that cell tower and looked up into the expanse of the future.

Learning more of how they work, the cell phone towers dotting the expanses became less mysterious. A feat of engineering to stand almost a mile high in stature, and a medal upon the lapel of human ingenuity that they were able to broadcast the signals that keep us connected in spite of miles in between. As I came to appreciate the beauty of our condition, tied together by telephone wires even as we drift further and further apart, I began to see the Tower in a new light, too.

In burning can be found a catharsis. In the aftermath of an upheaval, be it a political revolution of millions or the change in career of just one, change was a force neutral by default. Change is made beautiful or devastating or both all at once by the perceptions of those who stand at the tower's base, looking up, as I once did in the parking lot of my new job, at the start of something new.

#911 #true stories #911 dispatch #911 dispatchers #dizzydispatch911 #dizzydispatch #dispatchdiaries #dispatcher #tarot #the tower #prose #public #public safety telecommunicator #true story #cell phone towers #cell towers #communications

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your-desert-heart · 2 years

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#sunset #clouds #sky #weather #power lines #cell towers #fence #photographers on tumblr

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thechembow · 11 months

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My First Urban Gifting Trip – Towerbusting Boston 6/7/23

June 29, 2023 - by Anonymous Gifter

It is an honor to have been asked by Sharon and Gabe to contribute to their blog! I live north of Boston and have been following their work for about five years. A year ago when New England was allegedly in the middle of a “severe drought” (which ultimately consisted of three months of little to no rain), I decided to start gifting myself, focusing on cell phone towers and arrays mainly north of Boston and into New Hampshire with very interesting results (significant rain and other sky and weather transmutation that has continued ever since). While I have gifted in rural areas, towns, and smaller cities, Gabe and Sharon for some time have been encouraging me to tackle Boston itself. An opportunity to do so recently arose.

As usual, I turned my cell phone completely off during this outing, but I forgot to bring a piece of foil with me, so I didn't wrap it. This was the first gifting trip during which this happened, and time constraints didn’t allow me to find a store to buy some foil. I decided to put my trust in the power of the succor punch, a device made from a quartz crystal wrapped in a mobius coil and powered by a nine volt battery which scrambles location tracking data.

The weather was basically cloudy and mild before, during, and after my trip, with the sun coming out during it a little bit. The clouds were all very puffy and there was no haze. It sprinkled a tiny bit a couple of times. The local weather people had been complaining about haze from the "Canadian fires," but I saw no such haze anywhere that day, nor did I see any "planes.”

I used my AAA paper map and a list of places I had made in advance to go to in a grid pattern of one towerbuster approximately every quarter mile, suggested by Sharon and Gabe if one can’t see exactly where the cell towers are. The main issue I had was finding appropriate places to gift, since as a newbie city gifter I was always afraid that my potential spots could somehow get "unbusted." I was able to use a total of eight TBs, which took me an hour at a fast walk/slow jog. The massive rooftop arrays seemed to appear out of nowhere, but I of course couldn't see them if I was right next to a tall building. The grid strategy was definitely the right way to go unless there was something particularly nasty needing additional attention. Downtown Boston is comparatively dinky and was easy to walk in. Everybody was on their phones, so nobody seemed to care. I just had to watch out for the tourists taking pictures and all the security cameras, but avoiding them was easier than I had anticipated.

I did not encounter any significant challenges, but I did experience something really cool. In searching for an appropriate spot to gift, I "accidentally" came across a very promising area. Since it was touristy, I wandered around looking for a good site that wouldn't get unbusted and finally discovered a place that looked ideal. When I moved away some leaves so that I could place my gift appropriately, I found another TB already there! I was so shocked that instead of deciding not to deploy my own TB, I just added it to the other one and quickly left. Needless to say, I was very excited to learn that there was at least one other person gifting the city! I assumed that this was a fantastic sign and that my own gifts could only strengthen what had already been put there.

Even though I was not in Boston to have traditional fun, I did encounter some interesting entertainment. While near the State House, I heard someone talking and a cheering and clapping crowd. Approaching what I thought might be a political rally, I was instead graced by the presence of several drag queens on the State House steps about to perform! I was indeed tempted to watch this show, but quickly chose to go on my merry way, as I had more pressing matters to take care of. I finished my gridding by visiting a fantastic bakery with lots of bad-for-you sugary delights.

I was curious to see what would happen weather-wise after my trip, as I had deployed only a small number of TBs. The day after, on the North Shore and into New Hampshire there was flat white haze with puffy clouds forming underneath, which ended up turning into a lot of 3D cumulus clouds with a little blue sky. The second and third days were more dramatic. The temperatures were on the cool side (50s and 60s). I observed threatening clouds – white clouds in front of dark gray clouds, dark gray clouds in front of white clouds – all 3D. There were no "planes" or messy white hazy stuff in the upper atmosphere, and there was blue sky in between all these clouds when you could see it. A thunderstorm came through and dumped a bunch of rain for 15-20 minutes, moving off very quickly, and more of the clouds described above continued to appear. Threatening weather travelled north to south from New Hampshire towards Boston, rather than the typical west to east pattern, bringing in blue skies. In general, a lot of transformation and transmutation!

Overall, this urban trip has inspired me to consider additional city gifting. The greater Boston area is a true east coast epicenter of DOR activity – currently and historically – that ideally needs hundreds of TBs to neutralize fully. I will keep chipping away at it when I can and keep track of the results. Many thanks to Gabe and Sharon for their encouragement, advice, and TBs!

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