We've kind of learned to live with the fact that comfort
is only possible thanks to the daily suffering of unseen strangers. Just think
of your cellphone -- manufacturing it required who knows how many miners and
factory workers working long, dangerous shifts. All so you have something to
look at on the toilet.
But even then, the phone doesn't work without a
functioning cell tower. And if that tower ever stops functioning, some poor
bastard has to scale the thing and fix it. If that sounds simple, well, here
are some things you should know.
Maybe you've heard a little something about the deadly
dangers of cellphones. Cell radiation, like all things, can cause cancer in
rats, so some insist the only safe way to use a phone is to separate yourself
from the headset with a lead-lined Magneto helmet. But the official scientific
opinion on the matter, boringly, is "No, there's no evidence phones hurt
you. C'mon, guys. Enough with this already." That means those of you
hoping to fry your flesh with radiation will have to turn to something more
powerful than phones. Like, for instance, the live antenna of a cell tower.
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