Most stupidest thing I have ever heard.

[JigglyPufflez]

So literally like 3 minutes ago, my mum just told me that one of her friends got a cancer in her stomach and the cause of the cancer that the doctor said was "Eating too much microwaved food" and "Sleeping in a room with a computer in it". I have never heard of such thing ._. surely you can't get cancer from sleeping a room that also accompanies a computer? Do computers really radiate that much radiation to cause cancer? Heck do they radiate radiation at all? Not sure what this world has come to and what my mum thinks is real or not now... ._. 

[Phage]

i think she wants you to go outside

[Panda of the Shadow]

If you have an old ,laptop or something like this and you have it sitting on your lap all the time then yes you migth get cancer from it. And btw almost everything is radioactive to certain extend. Even humans. And bananas. 

[FloRolf]

Yeah computers radiate but not enough to get cancer. Id be dead 3 times by now then

[JigglyPufflez]

i think she wants you to go outside

10am to 2am couldn't be that bad could it?

[SirRoderick]

Either that doctor is a quack that needs to get his license revoked or it's a made up story.

 

Not only does a computer not emit harmful radiation, but a microwave doesn't do anything harmful either. Microwave radiation is non-ionising, which means it's totally harmless (okay if you sit inside of a microwave you WILL die, cause you're getting cooked....)

[SirRoderick]

If you have an old ,laptop or something like this and you have it sitting on your lap all the time then yes you migth get cancer from it. And btw almost everything is radioactive to certain extend. Even humans. And bananas. 

You can't get cancer from heat <_<

[Liam-McShane]

Bacon causes cancer and now computers do too? What is wrong with people.

[JigglyPufflez]

Bacon causes cancer and now computers do too? What is wrong with people.

Bacon? ... be right back, I'm going to go kill myself.

[felixbearpig]

that something a doctor for cali might say.

 

even the cars have a sticker stating the car will give you cancer

[SirRoderick]

Bacon causes cancer and now computers do too? What is wrong with people.

Simple, there's aren't any real dangers that threathen their lives, but we're genitically programmed to keep looking for those threats. So we end up blowing little things way out of proportion, or erring on the side of caution as it were and just assume that something is dangerous.

[Sheldon_King]

Grammar note: Any word containing the -est modifier is already at the maximum quantity. Saying Most Stupidest is essentially saying most most stupid. The proper way is either most stupid or stupidest, not most stupidest.

 

As for cancer from computers, they do output EM radiation, just like your TV, Radio, Car, smoke detector, cell phone, tablet, etc. Pretty much anything that uses electricity has some form of EM radiation output. As for it being dangerous, that is not even close. You would need something along the lines of dosing from every computer on earth for a year taken in a 24 hour period to cause major damage if EM radiation causes damage (I am not sure it does.). EM radiation is not exactly gamma rays, it will not give you cancer from a moderate exposure.

 

As I understand it, microwaves are not that dangerous, as in they do not linger. As soon as the oven dings, the waves have dissapated, and are no longer in danger. If you want any guaranteed damage from a microwave, you are almost certainly going to have to sit in one for an hour while it is running, and supposing you don't cook from it, you will probably die from heat stroke.  

[JigglyPufflez]

Grammar note: Any word containing the -est modifier is already at the maximum quantity. Saying Most Stupidest is essentially saying most most stupid. The proper way is either most stupid or stupidest, not most stupidest.

 

As for cancer from computers, they do output EM radiation, just like your TV, Radio, Car, smoke detector, cell phone, tablet, etc. Pretty much anything that uses electricity has some form of EM radiation output. As for it being dangerous, that is not even close. You would need something along the lines of dosing from every computer on earth for a year taken in a 24 hour period to cause major damage if EM radiation causes damage (I am not sure it does.). EM radiation is not exactly gamma rays, it will not give you cancer from a moderate exposure.

 

As I understand it, microwaves are not that dangerous, as in they do not linger. As soon as the oven dings, the waves have dissapated, and are no longer in danger. If you want any guaranteed damage from a microwave, you are almost certainly going to have to sit in one for an hour while it is running, and supposing you don't cook from it, you will probably die from heat stroke.  

Thanks for the Grammar note! Also thanks for the detailed response, I will be sure to show/tell my mother about what you said. I don't think the cancer her friend got was from either Microwaved food or sleeping in a room which also has a computer in it. Thanks again bud!

[SirRoderick]

Grammar note: Any word containing the -est modifier is already at the maximum quantity. Saying Most Stupidest is essentially saying most most stupid. The proper way is either most stupid or stupidest, not most stupidest.

 

As for cancer from computers, they do output EM radiation, just like your TV, Radio, Car, smoke detector, cell phone, tablet, etc. Pretty much anything that uses electricity has some form of EM radiation output. As for it being dangerous, that is not even close. You would need something along the lines of dosing from every computer on earth for a year taken in a 24 hour period to cause major damage if EM radiation causes damage (I am not sure it does.). EM radiation is not exactly gamma rays, it will not give you cancer from a moderate exposure.

 

As I understand it, microwaves are not that dangerous, as in they do not linger. As soon as the oven dings, the waves have dissapated, and are no longer in danger. If you want any guaranteed damage from a microwave, you are almost certainly going to have to sit in one for an hour while it is running, and supposing you don't cook from it, you will probably die from heat stroke.  

LIGHT is EM radiation. People need to understand this. Microwaves for example are just lightwaves with a higher frequency than visible light.

[Panda of the Shadow]

You can't get cancer from heat <_<

not talking about heat. talking about these old batterys. 

[daldaren]

Shit. If you get Cancer from computers what have I been doing with my life? Here I thought they shielded me from real life, but instead they just made me download Sims 3. Now I'm sad.

[YaNeZ]

no other things were the cause of the ladys health, not a PC or Microwave.

[JigglyPufflez]

Shit. If you get Cancer from computers what have I been doing with my life? Here I thought they shielded me from real life, but instead they just made me download Sims 3. Now I'm sad.

You have a beast rig!

[alpenwasser]

LIGHT is EM radiation. People need to understand this. Microwaves for example are just lightwaves with a higher frequency than visible light.

I think you mean lower frequencies (or longer wavelengths), right?

(according to Wikipedia: microwave spectrum wavelength: ~ 1 mm to ~ 1 m,

microwaves used for heating food usually have a frequency of about 2.45 GHz,

which is somewhere around 10 cm I think, and visible light has wavelengths

of ~400 nm to ~700 nm, corresponding to frequencies of about 430 ~ 800 THz).

Unless I'm having a proper derp moment here. :rolleyes:

In any case, I definitely agree with you, people are way too scared of

microwave ovens just because they have no idea how they work.

The problem with 'microwave food' is not the microwave, it's that the

food usually sold as such is basically just edible crap.

[SirRoderick]

not talking about heat. talking about these old batterys. 

That's all they give off, heat. There is nothing else you could have meant.

[Ertman]

You are all assuming the friend didn't make "the doctor said" part up.

[Sheldon_King]

LIGHT is EM radiation. People need to understand this. Microwaves for example are just lightwaves with a higher frequency than visible light.

True, but what I am failing to see is any qualified doctors in here to answer. I am pretty sure that EM radiation could do some major damage, but probably not in any concentration that you could get from computers in a single room (unless you have a state sized server room that is). It is just like Gravity, it can damage, just not at levels we naturally see. Or pressure sickness for that matter. You are fine at 10,000 feet, or sealevel, or 300 feet underwater. Does not mean pressure will not kill you, just not at levels we see without running out of air or imploding our airtanks.

 

Again, I am not a MD, and I am pretty sure you are not either (No offence is intended, and if you are I apologize now), so we should each take each others responses with a grain of salt. Now if we were talking about endocrinology, specifically T1 Diabetes, then I could guarantee some answers. 

[SirReallySam]

You can't get cancer from heat <_<

But heat does cause sperm count to go down

[daldaren]

You have a beast rig!

Off topic but thank you! Unfortunately I will have to dispose of it properly, now that I am aware of the dangerous effects of radiation it can cause. I suspect the source of said 'radiation' is the 'radiator'. Logically that makes sense.

[Greekian123]

First to say that I am a newbie on the site and this was the first post I chose to go on to because it interested me. First to say is that radiation is everywhere no matter where you go. Even my basement has radiation. But it's in the form of a gas called Radon. To die from it I would have to live in my basement for the next year and never leave. So tell your mother to ask her friend if her family past has had cancer before.