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@1110101010101@reddthat.com to Old People Facebook@reddthat.com • 2 years ago

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@1110101010101@reddthat.com to Old People Facebook@reddthat.com • 2 years ago
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  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    82•2 years ago

    I would love to watch this person glaze over while I explain that they both run at 2.4 ghz and are thus identical as far as radiation goes. The EM spectrum isn’t that complicated a concept, I don’t know why it’s such black magic to so many

    • @JDubbleu@programming.dev
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      43•2 years ago

      Because they don’t understand it, and fearing something is much easier to do than to take second semester physics.

      • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        25•2 years ago

        It’s not second semester physics, though. It’s like middle school nature & science class. It’s part of understanding the base foundations of our modern world.

        Not to mention, we’ve known about and actively used electromagnetic waves since the invention of radio (if we ignore light bulbs and visible light, of course)

        • @JDubbleu@programming.dev
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          8•2 years ago

          Eh, I kind of feel like they tell you about these things in middle school, but you won’t actually understand them well until you take E&M. Up until that point, you’re kind of just accepting what you’ve been told and haven’t been provided in depth knowledge of the subject. Compared to understanding why radiation is ionizing vs non-ionizing, how it behaves, interference, etc.

        • SSUPII
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          2•2 years ago

          Really, really depends. I got told about that in high school.

      • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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        2•2 years ago

        You don’t need a physics class. I’ve never taken one and I still know how radio waves work. Learned about it from Wikipedia.

    • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      27•2 years ago

      I don’t know why it’s such black magic to so many

      According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have English prose literacy below the 6th-grade level.

    • @Kanda@reddthat.com
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      4•2 years ago

      If a Bluetooth and a WiFi got in a fight, who would win?

      • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        2•2 years ago

        The microwave

      • @768@sh.itjust.works
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        1•2 years ago

        The tooth, obviously. The tooth goes into the wifi.

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