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Beehaw technology can you help explain like I'm five, 5g vs 4g? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I kinda understand it has to do with frequencies and the speed they can send information but I don't know enough to have a productive conversation with those that think it's mind altering cancer rays. Thats also what i keep running into online when I'm trying to find a dummy version for how it all works. I know I'll probably never be able to have a truly productive conversation with those types but i would like to have a better understanding myself.

It would be helpful to explain and frame it with radio and public broadcasting as well. to me, these are all happy information rays that send me thing i like but i don't full understand the technology behind it.

Thanks everyone this has been super helpful! Might try and make an info graph for to hang in my post box since I've gotten some crazy anti 5g flyers recently

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally agree, totally makes sense.

I also like the "radiation blocking stickers" that some of them put on their phone. The phone doesn't create radiation for fun. Radiation = reception. So if the stickers would actually work, the phone wouldn't have reception.

I once was forced by a friend to attend a Tupperware party, and the salesperson there showed off a microwave pressure cooker (an inherently dumb idea). One of the attendants asked about the radiation, and the salesperson was like "It totally blocks the radiation, so there is no radiation on the food", and I was like "And how is it going to heat the food then?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man... that's a new one. I should get into sticker making

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also fun: People sell waste paper baskets as "anti-radiation faraday cages" for wifi routers. And the reviews are full of people complaining that the signal is now crap.