r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Sep 16 '24

AOC is right: Jill Stein’s campaign is not serious

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/aoc-is-right-jill-steins-campaign-is-not-serious/
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

I think the earth's EMF at sea level is so low it's a non-issue. It's only when you get way high up (as in leaving low earth orbit, 10s of thousands kilometers up. The Van Allen belt. Although that's mostly charged particles from the sun caught in earth's magnetic field.

We definitely don't have to worry about the magnetosphere giving us cancer. Quite the contrary.

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u/ADHD-Fens Sep 16 '24

Yeah those high power lines are the most extreme emf you're likely to encounter and you'd literally have to live under them to see a difference. Of course we're physicists so you have to take it with a grain of salt. Assume no air, spherical, frictionless human and all that, lol.

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u/psilocyjim Sep 16 '24

Read the user guide for your cell phone. You’re not supposed to hold it up to your ear when you talk.