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how much emf radiation gets emitted from a macbook?

January 03, 2010 6:02pm

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  • #1 / Jan 03, 2010 6:02pm

    Sally D

    129 posts

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yMw7Ax0eM

    I like to place my laptop on my lap around near my testis and when i lay in bed on my chest near my heart. I’ve been doing this for about 6 years, and now I’m starting to see a conspiracy here don’t you. Radiation causes cell mutation is there a link there with all emfs everywhere i wonder.

    right now I’m lying in bed with a hot laptop sitting right over my chest cooking my with heart with microwaves when I sit I recline with the laptop on lap cooking my testis

    there should be a warning on laptops warning about emf radiation and discouraging you from placing the device to close to your body may be damaging. Anyone want to join me in a class action lawsuit?

  • #2 / Jan 03, 2010 7:05pm

    brianw1975

    257 posts

    You better leave the planet because it generates an electromagnetic field all by it’s lonesome.

    Oh, and, have your power disconnected because the powered electrical wiring generates electromagnetic fields, have your place of employment cease using fluorescent lights, discontinue using any form of transportation that has a metal frame or skin; don’t use the sub-way or planes or trains.  Don’t use those little fans that they sell at the $1 store because the motor puts off an electromagnetic field.

    Don’t throw around crap like class action lawsuit because you failed to use some common sense, you never placed the microwave oven on your chest and turned it on did you?  I didn’t think so.

  • #3 / Jan 03, 2010 8:16pm

    Sally D

    129 posts

    well then why is testicular cancer on the increase

    The number of cases of testicular cancer has increased by an average of 60% over 25 years in 21 populations across five continents, ...

    maybe all these rise in cancer rates breast cancer rare cancers are caused by all the radiation being emitted and then attributed to other things? radiation causes cell mutation that is a fact. and if your hyper sensitive enough to the radiation a tumor can develop never knowing it was from all the radiation that is being displaced into the world.

    really wifi and rf waves are new and really you can’t rule out any ill effects from them, so until then you can’t really say they are safe.

    until then use your laptops and your iphones at your own risk. I sure wont be sleeping with my computer any more I’ll just use my tv for visual stimulation to help me dose off at night.

  • #4 / Jan 04, 2010 12:15am

    GregGavish

    1 posts

    Even though it’s portable, I wouldn’t work with my laptop near my testis. There’s a table anywhere you go.

  • #5 / Jan 04, 2010 1:00am

    BrianDHall

    760 posts

    I’ve heard people get 2nd degree burns from older laptops, just sitting them on their lap for extended periods of time and not paying attention to the burning sensation.

    My advice - if something makes your testicles warm and tingly and was not itself designed for such a purpose…stop doing that. Shouldn’t need a warning label for something like that. Here’s an after school special for you: “Your Testis, Your Responsibility” 😊

    Oh, and if someone offered you a job and promised to pay you 60% more than the last guy, wouldn’t you want to know how much that last guy got paid? The odds of getting testicular cancer in 1970, ignoring important factors like ethnicity, were 25,000 to 1. Now they stand at about 16,500 to one. A big change in an extremely small number is not such a big change.

    But, a big percentage sounds much scarier than a change from 4 in 100,000 to 6 in 100,000 over 30 years. Along with attempting to scare with words like “radiation”, seeking to draw a correlation with nuclear radiation when “thermal radiation” (heat) is just as scientifically accurate, wreaks of a FUD campaign - fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

    Worry about real dangers - like ruby lasers reading your mind and making you watch poorly written music videos 😉

    Also, be careful of logic like “you can’t rule out any ill effects from them” - why apply such a strict rule when surely you don’t apply such a rule to all new behavior and activities in your own life, do you? Do you require new food dish to be proven safe before you’ll eat it? Do you require someone prove they aren’t a sociopath before you talk to them? Do you give people a background check before you go out on a date with them?

    It’s a dangerous world, and ultimately no one gets out of it alive. I think of it this way - cell phones didn’t even use to exist, yet now everyone has one and many people now practically have one permanently attached to their cranium. Yet, somehow it takes a team of statisticians to attempt to determine if brain cancer is any more common than it use to be? If they were terribly dangerous, shouldn’t it be a touch more obvious? These aren’t pharmaceuticals for direct injection or ingestion, the forces we refer to are quite literally “weak” and under normal circumstances even advanced equipment cannot find considerable effects on the human body.

    Again though, if you worry about radiation you’d be well advised to delve into a least a little serious scientific meaning as to its definition and usage, and compare electrical, magnetic, thermal, and nuclear radiation - amongst the many other sources.

    All this not withstanding, I try to keep complex technological devices away from my genitals. Just seems like a good policy to me.

  • #6 / Jan 04, 2010 11:32pm

    brianw1975

    257 posts

    well then why is testicular cancer on the increase

    The number of cases of testicular cancer has increased by an average of 60% over 25 years in 21 populations across five continents, ...

    maybe all these rise in cancer rates breast cancer rare cancers are caused by all the radiation being emitted and then attributed to other things? radiation causes cell mutation that is a fact. and if your hyper sensitive enough to the radiation a tumor can develop never knowing it was from all the radiation that is being displaced into the world.

    really wifi and rf waves are new and really you can’t rule out any ill effects from them, so until then you can’t really say they are safe.

    until then use your laptops and your iphones at your own risk. I sure wont be sleeping with my computer any more I’ll just use my tv for visual stimulation to help me dose off at night.

    lol, seriously?  It couldn’t have anything to the crap we eat everyday?  The crap we drink everyday?  The crap that is in the water supplies?  The crap that’s in the air? the chemicals that are used to “clean” the water in cities, the crap that “cleans” our laundry, etc, etc, etc.

    but you are right though, use at your own risk.  Everything in life is use at your own risk, get over it.

  • #7 / Jan 08, 2010 4:37pm

    gigas10

    88 posts

    You better leave the planet because it generates an electromagnetic field all by it’s lonesome.

    Oh, and, have your power disconnected because the powered electrical wiring generates electromagnetic fields, have your place of employment cease using fluorescent lights, discontinue using any form of transportation that has a metal frame or skin; don’t use the sub-way or planes or trains.  Don’t use those little fans that they sell at the $1 store because the motor puts off an electromagnetic field.

    Don’t throw around crap like class action lawsuit because you failed to use some common sense, you never placed the microwave oven on your chest and turned it on did you?  I didn’t think so.

    Will you marry me?

  • #8 / Jan 08, 2010 6:16pm

    SpooF

    170 posts

    You really shouldn’t use your laptop in your lap lol mainly because of the extreme heat it can produce from not having proper air flow. If you want to hold it in your lap get something solid to put under it like a book, or you can even get those fan pads.

  • #9 / Jan 08, 2010 9:07pm

    skunkbad

    1326 posts

    You should try strapping your cell phone on like an athletic supporter. Then you’ll be sure to do some damage. Just kidding…. but seriously, if you want to be safe, just put a layer of tin foil in your pants.

  • #10 / Jan 15, 2010 12:22pm

    Sally D

    129 posts

    what a coincidence   there is already a law suit about emf radiation causing problems

    man sues neighbor over emf radiation


    but any way it’s possible i know and the only reason why the media won’t come out and say emf are dangerous is that it would collapse our economy. that is why we need bio computers and not electro magnetic ones like we have now

    just wait in the next 10 years computers will made of bio living cells to represent the 1 and zeros we know today cells for parts in nature and these electronic ones we have now will be obsolete

    living cells create no heat so no speed limitation on processors

  • #11 / Jan 15, 2010 3:01pm

    Yorick Peterse

    537 posts

    Macbooks, or any electronics that you can buy, don’t emit harmful radiation. Even Wifi and GPS networks are save, simply because they operate on a different frequency than the frequency considered harmful. For instance, Gamma radiation has a frequency of 10^19 Hz, whereas Wifi is operating on a frequency of 2.4Ghz / 5Ghz (One Ghz is 10^9 Hz).

    Simply said, every ordinary electronical device you can buy is absolutely safe.

  • #12 / Jan 27, 2010 3:30am

    Eric Cope

    173 posts

    just an fyi - the bright thing in the sky, the sun, emits more EMI than anything you touch. Take a valium and go to sleep.

  • #13 / May 31, 2010 10:15pm

    SitesByJoe

    163 posts

    Dang it!  I was gonna recommend a tin foil helmet but I was beaten to the punch!

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