Mobile Phone Cooking

xoxoxoBruce · 03-14-2006, 10:19 PM

Is this guy serious? Or is it a joke?
http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm

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Cooking time: This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Check your user manual and remember that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse square of the output power for a given distance from egg to phone.

Kagen4o4 · 03-14-2006, 11:41 PM

ummmm....bullshit? if it were true you could kill someone the same way.

SteveDallas · 03-15-2006, 09:25 AM

I expect it was written as a parody of claims that mobile phone use is dangerous.

grazzers · 03-15-2006, 10:06 AM

Seen that ages ago, I'd have to agree with Kagen on this one

Kitsune · 03-15-2006, 10:57 AM

Total BS.

Microwave: ~1000watts @ 2.45GHz
Cellphone: .25-1watt, sometimes 2 on old, analog models @ 850-1200MHz.

Some cell phone health information.

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The level of temperature increase is an order of magnitude less than that obtained during the exposure of head to direct sunlight. The brain's blood circulation easily disposes of excess heat by instantaneously increasing local blood flow. However, the cornea of the eye does not have this temperature regulation mechanism. Premature cataracts is known as an occupational disease of engineers who work on high power radio transmitters at similar frequencies. Despite this, cataracts have not been reported to occur in users of mobile telephones.

busterb · 03-15-2006, 06:56 PM

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Fred, Just to say thanks for featuring me in 'Just For Grins' this week. That Egg Cooking page, published on the site in 2000, has really taken off this year. It started with big hits from Australia last September (50,000 in one week) and since then has chugged along at around 1,000 hits per week. In early February it was featured on Slashdot and the page got 250,000 hits in one week! It's bit like a harmless virus that spreads from forum to forum!

Just out of interest here is an article about the page and me:
http://tinyurl.com/9m6zw

Also, thanks for LangaList! Best wishes, Charlie.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2006, 09:56 PM

Thanks, I suspected it was an onion-esque piece.
The first thing that struck me is the phones talking to each other rather than through a tower.

03-15-2006, 10:06 AM	#4
grazzers Aim for the Best Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 134	Seen that ages ago, I'd have to agree with Kagen on this one __________________ "Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep, to gain that which he can never lose, is truly free." Anonymous Poet

03-15-2006, 09:56 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Thanks, I suspected it was an onion-esque piece. The first thing that struck me is the phones talking to each other rather than through a tower. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-14-2006, 11:41 PM	#2
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	ummmm....bullshit? if it were true you could kill someone the same way.

03-15-2006, 09:25 AM	#3
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I expect it was written as a parody of claims that mobile phone use is dangerous.

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