High EMF Radiation in the MRT Tunnels. Cancer Risk???
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Do you guys know that there is a high level of Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) Radiation in the tunnels?
I measured with my iPhone, sometimes approaching stations it can reach as high as 250 micro tesla (equivalent to 2,500 milli gauss).
High EMF Radiation exposure have been linked to cancer and leukemia in children.
http://www.lipower.org/residential/safety/emf.html
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Maybe I start taking buses more often now.
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so if tio cancer, can claim from MRT?
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hmm... dunno abt dat info. Wah.. like dat smrt bankrupt liao... unless they have a policy regarding passenger's health n well-being.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
so if tio cancer, can claim from MRT?
If only you tio cancer, cannot.
When thousands others together with you kena, then can take class action.
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Originally posted by deepak.c:
Do you guys know that there is a high level of Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) Radiation in the tunnels?
I measured with my iPhone, sometimes approaching stations it can reach as high as 250 micro tesla (equivalent to 2,500 milli gauss).
High EMF Radiation exposure have been linked to cancer and leukemia in children.
http://www.lipower.org/residential/safety/emf.html
Can you go read up Sec 4 pure physics on nuclear physics before coming here to shoot your mouth off?
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Oleh Oleh Oleh Oleh~
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Originally posted by SBST390:
Can you go read up Sec 4 pure physics on nuclear physics before coming here to shoot your mouth off?
You only know radiation from isotopes (e.g. gamma, alpha and beta), don't know EMF radiation?
I read an article years ago about children living near power stations developing leukemia. The article below is from a government source, so they might be bias in not admitting that EMF radiation poses a cancer risk. Afterall they have a benefit in denying that such risk exists.
2. Is there a link between magnetic field exposure at home and cancer in children?
Numerous epidemiological (population) studies and comprehensive reviews have evaluated magnetic field exposure and risk of cancer in children (1, 2). Since the two most common cancers in children are leukemia and brain tumors, most of the research has focused on these two types. A study in 1979 pointed to a possible association between living near electric power lines and childhood leukemia (3). Among more recent studies, findings have been mixed. Some have found an association; others have not. These studies are discussed in the following paragraphs. Currently, researchers conclude that there is limited evidence that magnetic fields from power lines cause childhood leukemia, and that there is inadequate evidence that these magnetic fields cause other cancers in children (2). Researchers have not found a consistent relationship between magnetic fields from power lines or appliances and childhood brain tumors.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/magnetic-fields
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If you are interested, have the scientific knowledge and the mental aptitude to keep up, you can try reading the link to the article from the British Medical Journal posted below. I have extracted some relevant pertinent information.
Results Compared with those who lived > 600 m from a line at
birth, children who lived within 200 m had a relative risk of
leukaemia of 1.69 (95% confidence interval 1.13 to 2.53); those
born between 200 and 600 m had a relative risk of 1.23 (1.02 to
1.49). There was a significant (P < 0.01) trend in risk in relation
to the reciprocal of distance from the line. No excess risk in
relation to proximity to lines was found for other childhood
cancers.
Conclusions There is an association between childhood
leukaemia and proximity of home address at birth to high
voltage power lines, and the apparent risk extends to a greater
distance than would have been expected from previous studies.
About 4% of children in England and Wales live within 600 m
of high voltage lines at birth. If the association is causal, about
1% of childhood leukaemia in England and Wales would be
attributable to these lines, though this estimate has considerable
statistical uncertainty. There is no accepted biological
mechanism to explain the epidemiological results; indeed, the
relation may be due to chance or confounding.
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I didn't know iphone has a build-in gauss meter module for measuring EMF. Anyway, all electronic devices (including your iphone) emits a certain amount of EMF.
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Originally posted by starExcaliblur:
I didn’t know iphone has a build-in gauss meter module for measuring EMF. Anyway, all electronic devices (including your iphone) emits a certain amount of EMF.
The EMF reading was stable to a certain extent, but when it reaches the entrance to an underground station, it would always spike. I think while the train is accelerating, it will also spike.
Do an app search for EMF in the app store.
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Originally posted by starExcaliblur:
I didn’t know iphone has a build-in gauss meter module for measuring EMF. Anyway, all electronic devices (including your iphone) emits a certain amount of EMF.
double post
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Originally posted by deepak.c:
The EMF reading was stable to a certain extent, but when it reaches the entrance to an underground station, it would always spike. I think while the train is accelerating, it will also spike.
Do an app search for EMF in the app store.
ok, do they have apps for turning your iphone into multi-meter for measuring voltage current, capacitance and resistance?
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Originally posted by starExcaliblur:
ok, do they have apps for turning your iphone into multi-meter for measuring voltage current, capacitance and resistance?Yah.
But you have to stick your fingers into the wall socket for that.
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Originally posted by starExcaliblur:
ok, do they have apps for turning your iphone into multi-meter for measuring voltage current, capacitance and resistance?
hahah good one"measured with my iphone"
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Originally posted by Master -_-:
hahah good one"measured with my iphone"
Obviously you don't have an iPhone and don't know that it has an internal compass.
Ignorance is bliss.
I am not saying that it's a 100% accurate device, but it is consistent with the spikes when the train approaches the station. From a 50 microtesla, it increased to a 250 microtesla, I doubt that would qualify as a freak reading, it's consistent. You are entitled to your own opinion no matter how dorky they may be.
I sense you still bear a grudge with me and charlize cuz we always correct your wrong economic theories. Petty.
-Detect the strength of Magnetic force field on all three axis's (x,y,z)
-Magnetic field is calculated in microteslas (uT)
http://www.hamwayapps.com/_/New_Apps.html
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Originally posted by deepak.c:
Obviously you don't have an iPhone and don't know that it has an internal compass.
Ignorance is bliss.
I am not saying that it's a 100% accurate device, but it is consistent with the spikes when the train approaches the station. From a 50 microtesla, it increased to a 250 microtesla, I doubt that would qualify as a freak reading, it's consistent. You are entitled to your own opinion no matter how dorky they may be.
-Detect the strength of Magnetic force field on all three axis's (x,y,z)
-Magnetic field is calculated in microteslas (uT)
http://www.hamwayapps.com/_/New_Apps.html
oh..i dun have iphone ah?
u checked using ur iphone ah?
let me guess..."iphone detector via username" ah?sense i bore a grudge? lol
another app is it?
"grudge detector v2.0" ah? Presumptuous.let me guess, suddenly, your clone will appear in a matter of minutes replying here
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Originally posted by Master -_-:
oh..i dun have iphone ah?
u checked using ur iphone ah?
let me guess..."iphone detector via username" ah?You must be a girl, so petty.
I won't continue with your infantile games.
You choose to believe what you wish to, like all your economic theories.
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Likewise
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*raise 2 index finger and swing it around*
oh... u know wat is that? that is flame detector... -
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Originally posted by limywv:
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
The spike in EMF radiation is probably due to an increase in intensity of radiation from the internal antenna of the iphone, which is due to the iphone desperately trying to increase it's reception strength to pick up any network.
Do not go around trusting nd tellling others about this discovery based on the iphone app if you do not want to be ridiculed secretly.
So when every I moved near a high voltage power source, the iphone actually increases signal?
Especially when I moved the iphone close to my subwoofer, it fluctuates between 209-50 microtesla, when idle (no magnetic source) it's 50 microtesla.
Maybe the iphone increases signal from the internal antenna whenever I am near a magnetic source.
If someone has an EMF meter, maybe can do some readings to clarify it.
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An abstract highlighting the high EMF radiation in the subways.
From midnight to 7 a.m., cyclic changes in fields at the head of a second-floor bed suggest a poorly wired thermostat or pump that induces spikes as the boiler in the basement turns on and off. Use of kitchen appliances from 7 to 7:30 a.m. caused small surges. Similar fluctuations between 7:30 and 8:15 depict fields as the author drove her daughter to school. Off-the-chart peaks shortly thereafter reflect commuting on the electric subway system.
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/1_10_98/bob1.htm