They were trying to call SHENANIGANS.

And that brain cancer thing is still BS?

gopher321: They were trying to call SHENANIGANS.

Buried as inaccurate...damn can't do that here.

gopher321: They were trying to call SHENANIGANS.

"...all circuits are busy at this time..."

Senator Vreenak would like a word with the makers of this video.

Cell phone radiation isn't directed from the top of the farking phone. You can't just "point" the radiation like that. Secondly, cell phones emit radiation even when they aren't being used. You don't have to call them to get them to start radiating.

Your head would suffer third degree burns if the phone was able to pop a popcorn kernel that fast. As Adam and Jamie would say... MYTH BUSTED.

Adremelech: Cell phone radiation isn't directed from the top of the farking phone. You can't just "point" the radiation like that. Secondly, cell phones emit radiation even when they aren't being used. You don't have to call them to get them to start radiating.

Your head would suffer third degree burns if the phone was able to pop a popcorn kernel that fast. As Adam and Jamie would say... MYTH BUSTED.

It's still real to me dammit.

deep, deep inhale...

BULLSHIAT!!!

Thanks for your time.

Yeah, and the other four phones CALLING had nothing to do with it.

And their wireless internet. And the neighbors. And the proximity of the towers...

Yeah, way too many unknowns here. And more than likely, staged for our enjoyment/terror for those who fear everything.

here are the four related videos on youtube, all posted last week:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ju5yIFu4yY8

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2x1BXogZ8

the american one is the most obviously staged, imo.

i'm guessing microwave radar speed-trap gun pointed up from under the tables

They forgot to show the midget who was heating up the bottom of the table with a Zippo.

Hmm.....I think I've just found my new bar bet..

Where o where to buy a microwave speed-trap gun..?

If it was a fake, then damn it got me.

Cell phones do way more work when they are communicating. They always fark up my stereo when I get a call or when its calling the tower. If I had 8 cell phones I'd try it, right now.

Cheesymac: Yeah, and the other four phones CALLING had nothing to do with it.

And their wireless internet. And the neighbors. And the proximity of the towers...

And the heater hidden under the table....

fake

admittedly this is fake, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to find out in 20 years that keeping a relatively (compared to background radiation) powerful rf emitter on your body every waking hour for a few decades causes serious damage?

Now... if only I can get all the world's cell phones within range of the United States' corn fields, and have them all called at the same time, I'll be able to cripple the corn harvest of the entire planet! Muwahahahaha!

Leaders of the world, if you do not wish your grain supply interrupted, I demand One Miiiiiillion Dollars!

*does pinky thing*

(And yes, I know this only works with dried corn, so :P Generic villains never think that far ahead, don'cha know.)

RobertKnicks: admittedly this is fake, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to find out in 20 years that keeping a relatively (compared to background radiation) powerful rf emitter on your body every waking hour for a few decades causes serious damage?

It's probably causing serious damage right now. We just hype genes and cancer so much that we ignore all sorts of other possibilities. Maybe they reduce the amount of magnesium our bodies can store. Maybe they make houseflies horny for us. Maybe they attract ions from the upper atmosphere down to our pants pockets, and make us aware of our 5th dimensional anatomy!*


*but only if our knickers are plaid

even if it was real, what kind of numbed brain moron is amused by kernels popping?

link me when you find a video that shows 4 cellphones opening a wormhole into the future.

RobertKnicks: admittedly this is fake, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to find out in 20 years that keeping a relatively (compared to background radiation) powerful rf emitter on your body every waking hour for a few decades causes serious damage?

It's possible I guess, but it seems unlikely for several reasons:

First, it's really not relatively powerful compared to background radiation -- the low-power transmissions of cell phones are so close to the noise floor it continues to amaze me that they work at all. Average solar radiation at the Earth's surface is something like 150 Watts/m² -- a typical GSM cell phone outputs 2 Watts peak and 250 mW average power. Granted solar radiation has a much greater bandwidth, but it's still a lot of power compared to your phone.

Second, we've been running several much higher power RF systems operating in similar bands for decades. TV run at very similar frequencies, and with broadcast power in the 10,000 W-100,000 W range. And there are all sorts of audio-comm systems -- handheld radios, air traffic comm, cordless landline phones, etc. -- that run in a similar frequency range, often with more broadcast power, and have also been in use for decades.

Finally, there has actually been a good deal of study and regulation of human absorption of communication-related RF broadcasts. The FCC has well-defined tests and limits for acceptable radiation absorption that consider a variety of factors including simple things like broadcast power, proximity to source and complicated factors like the reactance of human tissue, and how many people are likely to be using similar systems at the same time. You might be able to poke holes in the methodology they used to determine what the "safe" limit is, but the absorption tests themselves are a pretty good indication of how much RF power people take on from common communications systems.

Norad: They forgot to show the midget who was heating up the bottom of the table with a Zippo.

Unright: Cheesymac: Yeah, and the other four phones CALLING had nothing to do with it.

And their wireless internet. And the neighbors. And the proximity of the towers...

And the heater hidden under the table....

The table they are all sitting around is a kotatsu... There's a space heater installed to the bottom of the table surface, and thus the blanket all around. Great for Japanese uninsulated housing with no central heat. Not saying that the average person could pop popcorn on a kotatsu, but that's reason enough to suspect something...

Why do people automatically assume radiation = plutonium = cancer? Cell phones produce nonionizing radiation, which means it's incapable of causing chemical changes to stuff like say...dna. Which means, no cancer. The only danger from the wavelengths used by cell phones is if there's enough power to cause a burn, and my cell phone has yet to cause me to go up in flames. I don't know about you guys, though.

Of course, facts be damned. Whether cell phones cause cancer is always going to be one of those unanswered questions, but only to those that haven't spent more than 30 seconds researching it.

my, those asians sure are animated!

It's not a heater under the table, it's a small hole to blow the kernels around. Then you drop popped kernels from above the camera.

Also, microwave popcorn doesn't work directly, it requires a piece of thin foil to concentrate the energy as heat.

Rezurok: The only danger from the wavelengths used by cell phones is if there's enough power to cause a burn, and my cell phone has yet to cause me to go up in flames. I don't know about you guys, though.

Mine is badly designed and, if I use it for more than about half an hour at a time, becomes painful to hold due to the battery overheating. Not a direct result of the transmission, but still...

/hates being on hold for an hour.

SSHGuru: I just popped a bag of microwave popcorn with my crackberry while downloading porn...

What do you have to say to that.

Keep up the good work?

Actually, you can popcorn in a paper bag, no metal there
great use for the paper bags from the liquor store
no oil needed

If this experiment is true and mobile pones can cook corn seeds then imagine what they are doing to your brain.

Heating it slightly? I don't remember my brain being vulnerable to small bursts of heat.

Adremelech

cell phones emit radiation even when they aren't being used. You don't have to call them to get them to start radiating.

It is true that they are always radiating (when on), however the initial call setup is by far the largest burst of power.

Oh and this video is complete bullshiat.

OK, microwave oven, roughly 1000 watts of power in a tuned cavity: popped corn in 1-3 minutes.

Cell phone .1 watt in open air: popped corn in never.


Multiple phones would be even less effective because they would just as likely be cancelling each other as reenforcing each other.

Rezurok: Whether cell phones cause cancer is always going to be one of those unanswered questions, but only to those that haven't spent more than 30 seconds researching it.

Nicely put. I have an in-law that fears his microwave makes food radioactive. Not surprisingly, he is immune to discussion about it.

These fake videos that you see all share a major "tell." The camera work... too good... reaction shots and panning that is far beyond the average kid with a camera. It is the first thing you notice. AND the quality of the video... lack of talking over each other....

Oh, and you would not need 8 phones. Just set it up as a group call. or send a text. Then you could send to 7 phones! Wow... cook a steak.

wildcardjack: It's not a heater under the table, it's a small hole to blow the kernels around. Then you drop popped kernels from above the camera.

Also, microwave popcorn doesn't work directly, it requires a piece of thin foil to concentrate the energy as heat.

Nope, you're wrong. I was popping popcorn in the microwave my putting plain kernels in the bottom of a brown lunch bag for YEARS before they cam up with the pre-packaged microwave popcorn.

Tr0mBoNe: If it was a fake, then damn it got me.

Cell phones do way more work when they are communicating. They always fark up my stereo when I get a call or when its calling the tower. If I had 8 cell phones I'd try it, right now.

Seriously? You have ever used a microwave? How long does that take, compared to this video? And that's for a device DESIGNED to heat shiat up. That should have raised all kinds of "bullshiat" flags in your head. Also, what do you think 1/4th or whatever of the power needed to pop popcorn would do to your ear after a short time? Do your ears look like blackened husks, and does your hair start on fire when you make a call? Then cell phones probably can't pop popcorn.

Doing any research at all would have made it even clearer, but in this case it's not even required. This is clearly impossible and fake.

Just because it looks like something is happening, doesn't mean it is. You should be more cynical.

/Also, it doesn't take much interference at all to mess with a lot of electronics. That's why a lot of them act odd, not because they're being baked from the inside by a cell phone.

biorhythmist: here are the four related videos on youtube, all posted last week:

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ju5yIFu4yY8

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2x1BXogZ8

the american one is the most obviously staged, imo.

i'm guessing microwave radar speed-trap gun pointed up from under the tables

I find it odd that those links do not pop.

whiplash1017: Actually, you can popcorn in a paper bag, no metal there
great use for the paper bags from the liquor store
no oil needed

Little bit of oil in the bottom of the bag will help distribute heat.

SSHGuru: I just popped a bag of microwave popcorn with my crackberry while downloading porn...

What do you have to say to that.

It's not the crackberry, it's from the heat caused by the friction from your hand.

I used to build cell towers. One of the guys on the crew liked to call all his friends from the top of the tower, with the antenna just a few inches from his head, and brag about the number of bars he had. We all told him he would get cancer, but his head exploded like the popcorn in the video.

/Just kidding
//nothing happened to him at all.

Skalagrim: I used to build cell towers. One of the guys on the crew liked to call all his friends from the top of the tower, with the antenna just a few inches from his head, and brag about the number of bars he had. We all told him he would get cancer, but his head exploded like the popcorn in the video.

/Just kidding
//nothing happened to him at all.

Yet.

Where o where to buy a microwave speed-trap gun..?

My money is on that explanation.

The only other thing I can come up with is that most of the videos linked above were foreign-originated, where they use UMTS/3G systems... maybe, MAYBE they have a more profound cumulative effect on the kernels? I doubt it, but that's just something that came to mind...

Skalagrim: I used to build cell towers. One of the guys on the crew liked to call all his friends from the top of the tower, with the antenna just a few inches from his head, and brag about the number of bars he had. We all told him he would get cancer, but his head exploded like the popcorn in the video.

/Just kidding
//nothing happened to him at all.

His kids will be born inside out and lightly salted.

Getting kick out of these replies, work with cell phones. Eat popcorn all day long.

This is a great thread. When is the next FARK party?

RidesAPaleHorse: wildcardjack: It's not a heater under the table, it's a small hole to blow the kernels around. Then you drop popped kernels from above the camera.

Also, microwave popcorn doesn't work directly, it requires a piece of thin foil to concentrate the energy as heat.

Nope, you're wrong. I was popping popcorn in the microwave my putting plain kernels in the bottom of a brown lunch bag for YEARS before they cam up with the pre-packaged microwave popcorn.


holy shiat you're old

DblDad: Senator Vreenak would like a word with the makers of this video.

Bravo, sir.

There's a similar feat debunked on Snopes involving a couple of cell phones and cooking an egg:
Link (new window)

Taking a different approach than discussing cell phone radiation:

The mechanism that pops a popcorn kernel is steam. Microwaves (as in your microwave oven), hot air (remember those poppers?), or hot oil can be used to cause the water in the kernel to turn to steam.

Now, do you really think a phone, even four of them, could cause water to boil that quickly? Even some microwave ovens don't start popping that fast.

RobertKnicks: admittedly this is fake, but does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to find out in 20 years that keeping a relatively (compared to background radiation) powerful rf emitter on your body every waking hour for a few decades causes serious damage?

Not those of us who passed 2nd year physics. You can keep your recent hollywood scare to yourself.

Obviously it's fake, but I'm still going to send the link to my sister in law. One, it will scare the bejesus out of her and two, it will solve my wife's problem of having to talk to her for hours on end about every other crazy-ass conspiracy of the week.

Two birds with one stone - who could ask for anything more?

I just cooked a ham with 6 TV remote controls, 2 garage door openers and a flashlight.