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|  Re: Real or Fake?
NO. Saw this on the morning news the other morning, and no way in hell. No snopes, not nothing...just common sense.
What makes popcorn pop? Steam. You must generate steam in a moist kernal and they explode into popcorn. The dead kernels are too dry to pop easily. A cellphone that makes steam in a Kernel will make steam in your head. Since that's not been done, it's fake. I mean, no one is saying their veins are exploding since the invention of the celly.
The news (KUSI) was funny about it though. They had a doctor interviewed, and obviously biased about it...had an agenda. He backed it by lack of science and technology and made it sound scary. He talked X-rays for pete's sake, and hinted at the radios in them, and that radio waves are known to kill in an instant. This is far higher than a cell phone, and how RADAR was found and utilized. The Hershey bar in the pocket story. Being a Sailor town, this was what was joked about for the next 45 minutes. You can find things with your cell phone via the radar capability, weatherman said to clear the skys of clouds by pointing your cell to the air, Traffic guy said to heat your coffee back up with it, and they ended up putting 38 phones to a whole pile of kernels with nothing happening. Good from both sides...The news guy knows better and debated the doctor with science, and actual trials to squash those that don't know better. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gig-O-Ram  I was thinking about microwave ovens too. I saw something on David Letterman once where he put light bulbs in a microwave, turned it on and got them to light up, so that proved the level of energy there. | That's more of a play with plasma though I think. It's temporal.  
Last edited by Boy'nBlack; June 15th, 2008 at 19:05.
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June 15th, 2008
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