Fun fact: eyeballs and testicles are some of the most sensitive parts of the human anatomy to radio frequency heating damage because they are mostly liquid, close to the surface of the body, and have small blood vessels so they don’t get much blood flow (meaning they heat up easily and don’t lose heat quickly)
The more you know
Can confirm, ionizing radiation also gives you a wicked headache. Big shout-out to the fuckhead who had us working 20 feet below an active broadcast antenna after telling us it was definitely off at 1180 feet.
FYI, radio waves are not ionizing. Neither are microwaves.
Microwaves can still cook you but they won’t give you cancer.
Y’know what, you’re right, thank you for checking me on that. I spent 6 years doing broadcast and cell work and have been out for several years, my memories of the RF awareness classes have waned a bit. No matter though, it’s still fuckin’ painful to be 20 feet under a television broadcast antenna at full power.
Radio frequency isn’t ionising radiation. It’s still harmful to absorb a bunch but individual photons don’t have enough energy to ionise particles.
A source would be cool
the radar array on the right side of the photo is the source of the RF
Neat. I’d love an actual source though, since I can’t confirm or deny that
Edit: love that I asked for a source, someone else comments misinformation, and for some reason I’m the one who gets downvoted. Never change, Lemmy
The user Sine_Fine_Belli (who appears to be active on both Lemmy and Reddit) has posted this on various military forums
Odd that they phrased it as if they didn’t take the photo. Thanks for the info
Not really, I try to give credit were it is due. And stop spreading misinformation
Whose is it then? I’ve seen it on here and Reddit
I think the downvotes are because the commenter you’re replying to was doing a joke
allegedly it was taken by xlmifer on r$ddit
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ow7bi4/comment/nooc6m8/
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer I presume
“I just wanted my crayons a little softer, sir”
Some pfas with my radar sir
On purpose, or…?
Cookers ?
That’s a really high quality photo for 2003. Most photographs from that time were early digital cameras and tended to max out about 720p resolution. It also doesn’t look like a scanned photograph because there’s no grain.
Canon Powershot cameras would have been the “standard” at the time, and had 3-4MP sensors in 2003 depending on price range.
The main issue with those early digicams was lacking dynamic range, so a sunny sky would almost always be glaring white.
But in this pic, that wouldn’t show, since the dynamic range is very low.
