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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1565360)10/15/2025 3:48:21 PM
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It is also pretty clear that RFK Jr. is unaware that there are two different frequencies for WiFi. Originally, it shared some frequencies with cellphones and microwave ovens at 2.4GHz. Later, for higher bandwidth, the 5GHz band was added.

While the 2.4GHz frequencies can in principle have biological interactions since those frequencies can interact with hydrogen bonds. That is a pretty subtle effect at the power levels cellphones and WiFi operate, nothing has really been shown. More than zero, but not much more. There is even less evidence at 5GHz.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote a short story that inspired the waldos used for remote manipulation back in the 1940s. The main character, Waldo suffered from severe muscle weakness, it turns out because of the wireless means of power transmission caused it. I think someone read that story and thought it was actually real...
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