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  Roachmill, 7 Feb 2006 @ 7:13pm

  
  

  No Subject Given

  I saw that artical like 6 months ago

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    Roachmill, 7 Feb 2006 @ 7:41pm

    
    

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    whats an artical?????????????????????????

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      johanna, 9 Jul 2006 @ 9:49am

      
      

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      thats pretty funny

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  Gunblade, 7 Feb 2006 @ 7:14pm

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Wow...when I first read it I think at Engadget I knew it was BS. But didn't comment because I thought all the comments would be like that.
  
  I read the blurb on the article and then looked at my cellphone thought about some common sense things and said to myself "No freaking way" and moved on.

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  ?, 7 Feb 2006 @ 7:52pm

  
  

  humph!

  No wonder my breakfast isn't cooking. Two hours into it, and all I have is a stinky egg.
  
  Good thing for Verizon's "IN" program, or I would have a huge fat bill too!
  
  

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    Anonymous Coward, 7 Feb 2006 @ 8:09pm

    
    

    Re: humph!

    Can you hear me now? I can't hear anything. There is egg in my phone...

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    RedSun, 7 Feb 2006 @ 8:43pm

    
    

    Re: humph!

    I tried it, after I read about it on slashdot. It didn't work, so I cried. :(

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  nonuser, 7 Feb 2006 @ 8:47pm

  
  

  Ron Popeil

  I'd like to see Ron Popeil do an infomercial for a phone, covering all the usual features like web browsing and text messaging and then concluding with the egg frying demo ("John, you also have the new Motorola and I need to borrow yours.").

  I bet that would sell a lot of phones.

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  Amy, 7 Feb 2006 @ 9:02pm

  
  

  brainiac

  This was actually tested on the show Brainiacs on G4 (the "I can do science me!" segment of the show), except they used 100 cell phones and basically burried the egg in them. that didn't work either.

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    SMG, 8 Feb 2006 @ 6:16am

    
    

    Re: brainiac

    i saw braniac episode as well.

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  Sohrab, 7 Feb 2006 @ 9:29pm

  
  

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  hahaha wow. Got to love the internet

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  drinkmorejava, 7 Feb 2006 @ 9:48pm

  
  

  LOL slashdot

  I was reading that a day or two ago on /. and was like wtf, how on earth did the mods ever let something that stupid get on the front page. Then I realized that 90% of the stuff posted there is crap anyway.

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  Anonymous Coward, 8 Feb 2006 @ 2:39am

  
  

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  oooooooooooooooooooooooooold

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    Idiot, 8 Feb 2006 @ 2:57am

    
    

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    I debunk bogus emails for fun.
    
    I fell for this.
    
    IDIOT!!
    
    I blame my mobile phone for frying my brain.

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  reddy kilowatt, 8 Feb 2006 @ 3:48am

  
  

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  Don't you just love how the same people that freak at such things because they don't know anything about electronics or electricity are the same ones who try to drive and talk on cellphones at the same time, put scotch tape over wall sockets to prevent leakage, and stick their fingers in light sockets to see if the juice is on? And they're allowed to vote!

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  MacOso, 8 Feb 2006 @ 4:25am

  
  

  need MO power

  ..I knew this couldn't work... we tried to pop some microwave popcorn in front of a transmitting antenna of an F-14 radar... after 5 minutes...no joy or should I say no Jiff. RF energy...it's all F.M.

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    R.F. Burns, 8 Feb 2006 @ 4:45am

    
    

    Re: need MO power

    not focused enough...funnel that into a metal enclosure (or an aluminum foil hat!) and it'll go off like a teenager....

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  Topher3105, 8 Feb 2006 @ 5:52am

  
  

  Sad and scary

  This brings up probably the single biggest problem with the Internet. It's not security exploits and viruses, not phishing scams or malicious spyware, its the simple nature for humans to be gullible.
  People are quick to believe everything they read in a book, see on television, and apparently now, anything blogged or listed on the Internet.
  Is it that people are being knowingly or wantonly deceptive by fooling people, no. Its just that the Internet is an outlet for both brilliance and substantially more ignorance. People push their personal opinion onto other people because there is always a ready audience willing to gobble it up.
  Unfortunately, not everybody has a good rounded education or simply good common sense to weed through the chaff and find the truths and facts out there. They are quick to promote this ignorance by linking to it on their blogs or listing it in their "news" services.
  So, my advice is to take everything seen on the web with a big grain of salt. Even if you find a story corroborated on many other sites, understand that all these sites didn't independently come to the same conclusion, they are all commenting off the same source.

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  Justin, 8 Feb 2006 @ 6:09am

  
  

  Minimicrowave

  While there is little hope of cooking an egg with a cell phone, it is basically a mini-micorwave. A diogital phone transmitts at 850 & 1900 Mhz which is right in the microwave band. So the waves comming out of your celly ARE microwaves. The difference is that your cell transmits at about 1 watt, and your microwave oven is probably 1000 watts. So next time your on the phone for an hour, think of it as putting your head in the microwave oven for 36 seconds.

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    randomboy, 8 Feb 2006 @ 7:24am

    
    

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    Not really for 36 minutes since microwave radiation in an oven bounces around until it hits whatever you're cooking and heats it up, while about 75% of the radiation from your cell phone dissipates into thin air. So admitting that the power of the emitter is indeed one watt I'd say that talking on the phone for an hour is the equivalent of sticking your head in a microwave overn for no more than 6 seconds :)

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    Anonymous Coward, 8 Feb 2006 @ 7:52am

    
    

    Re: Minimicrowave

    Cell phones do not transmit anywhere close to 1 watt.
    
    You can look them up on the FCC database. Half a watt is more like it.

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    googly_eyes, 8 Feb 2006 @ 9:18am

    
    

    Re: Minimicrowave BZZZZZZZZT!!!

    More junk science Justin...

    Microwaves work at the 2.4GHz range - 2450 MHz to be specific - the dielectric heating frequency of water molecules (sugar and fat too).

    Here's the wikipedia article if you would care to check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

    Thanks for playing though, and proving the point that we shouldn't always believe what we read....
    

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      Sean, 7 Dec 2007 @ 6:12pm

      
      

      Re: Re: Minimicrowave BZZZZZZZZT!!!

      You say we shouldn't always believe what we read and then you cite a "Wikipedia" article as some kind of scientific reference. Wikipedia is the online equivalent of the writing on the inside of a toilet stall.

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  A Funny Guy / The Poison Pen, 8 Feb 2006 @ 8:39am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Sits and gives his cell phone a long hard look.......
  
  
  Gives it another suspicious look and dials yet another number......
  
  Breakfast anyone?

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  Gulliber, 25 Jun 2006 @ 10:05am

  
  

  micro-brains, anyone?

  Ohhh, I dare anyone to microwave their head for even six seconds.. I'm sure it would explode and make a hell of a mess. BTW, besides an egg cooker, a cell phone is an excellent mosquito repellant, and if you put it in your clothes dryer, your clothes will come out static free and april fresh! LMAO

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    js, 25 Oct 2006 @ 10:17pm

    
    

    Re: micro-brains, anyone?

    I tried and tried but I couldnt close the microwave
    door with my head in it.

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  TechData, 28 Jun 2006 @ 9:08am

  
  

  Time will tell

  check back in 5,10,15 and 20 years. Maybe again in 30. The results will prove themselves.

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  Marrondinde, 7 Jul 2006 @ 11:25am

  
  

  Frying an egg with 2 cell phones

  So it is a hoax ? O.K. I accept. The experience seemed rather funny anyway since nobody will carry a conversation with two different phones on their ears... Nevertheless there are serious studies showing that using cell phones in excess has unpleasant side effects. If I speak longer than ten minutes with my cell phone my ear aches... and no matter what other people say, I don't enjoy staying on these phones. But for an emergency these phones are wonderful !

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  Mike, 23 Sep 2006 @ 4:55pm

  
  

  Need A Cooker? USE YOUR CELL PHONE

  http://www.rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm
  How Two Russian Journalists Cooked An Egg
  With Their Mobile Phones
  
  Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure.

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  Anonymous Coward, 22 Oct 2007 @ 7:22pm

  
  

  can u believe this fwd is still making rounds?!

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  Jeff, 20 Feb 2008 @ 10:24am

  
  

  Going to do it myself

  I read the articles presented in this matter, and it looks to me like the Russians had one step that the Americaan did not include in their experiment. This being the stereo playing converstation in the background so that the cellphones would have something to transmit as well as recieve, which in my belief is an integeral part for the experiment to work.... cause who really just sits on there cell phone and doesnt gab a mile a minute. So I am going to do this experiment with in my office on Camera and then show it on fast action 10X play to really get down to the bottom of this!

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