Mobile phones and popcorn

Don’t forget, though, it’s only a couple of kernels at a time being popped with the mobile phones – not a whole cinema-sized bucket!!

Lets see; a few milliwatts able to pop popcorn in just a few seconds, yet it takes my thousand watt microwave many seconds or minutes just to start popping a few kernels? It’s an obvious fake; using pseudoscience to feed off of peoples paranoia and naivety and tendency to stretch logic and truth.

It’s just an advertising scheme.

The company that sponsored or made the commercial admitted that it was fictional ( a staged/faked event) though at the time they would not completely elaborate. I suspect it is a superimposed video. I suspect that the video of popping popcorn is superimposed in front of the cell phones.

I’m sure that somebody, somewhere will believe what they see and use it as further evidence for the War on Radio Frequencies/big business/Jews.

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/cellphones-cant.html

Company Fesses Up to Corn-Popping Cellphone Clips
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/bluetooth-compa.html

Set up I’d say. I believe the average mobile phone ERP is around one watt, which, as previously stated, is nowhere near what a microwave will output. I’m not believing it! 😀

Paul

P.S. Hello and welcome, Nightwatch! 🙂

Mobile phones – cats -etc

I don’t know about popcorn, but I switched off my radio control unit for my MASH helo, put it down, went to disconnect the helo battery just as my mates wife texted her friend, and said CHOPPER took off of it’s own accord, narrowly missed my head, hovered over the cat, (who, luckily, has nine lives, AND has already been castrated), then demolished its rotor blades against the unyielding brick side of my house ! The mate and wife think it was a poltergeist – but we know better, don’t we readers. By the way, hello, I’ve only just registered. Jes:eek:

Set-up. As creaking door says, 4 mobile phones aren’t going to produce anywhere close to the power of a microwave.
Mobile phones produce a lot less radiation than was originally thought. The scientists that believed that people were at danger from microwave radiation from their phones were proved wrong a couple of years back.

Genuine or a set up?

Got to be a set-up.

Think about it, microwave ovens are 600-1200 Watts power, and it takes quite a while to pop corn in them.

Does a mobile phone battery even have that much power in it? And if it did would you be able have three hours talk-time without flattening the battery if it discharged at that rate?

I think it could be genuine because mobile phones emit small microwaves whenever you make or receive calls/texts; and nowadays popcorn is usually made in a microwave, so the combined amount of microwaves emitted when the group of four phones are rung could cause the popcorn to ‘pop’…

Well I am no scientist, but that is my thought, I could be completley wrong though…:o

That’s pretty amusing, we should send it to Mythbusters 😀

The other night talking to my lady friend for hours my blood was boiling, I thought it was her getting on my nerves but I feel much better now knowing it was my phone. :dev2: