{"id":747,"date":"2010-08-13T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2010-08-13T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T07:55:02","slug":"the-500-crazies-in-bennelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"The 500 crazies in Bennelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-election\/the-buzz-in-bennelong-one-towering-mistake-could-swing-election-20100813-122tc.html\">SMH<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some 500 people have since signed a petition objecting to the tower and have put candidates on notice it will influence their decision come election day &#8211; a threat the major parties are not likely to ignore considering the seat is tipped to be decided by a handful of votes<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proof that there&#8217;s at least 500 nongs in the Bennelong electorate who haven&#8217;t got clue number one about science and the utter lack of hazard from mobile telephone towers.<\/p>\n<p>How much do you want to bet that each one has a microwave oven? Microwave ovens are 1000-1200 watt radio transmitters which operate slightly above the frequency of mobile phones.\u00a0 Mobile phones themselves max out at about 600mW (0.6W) and 3G base stations sear the sky with a blazing 3-10 watts.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no scientific evidence that humans are in any way affected by radio signals, but the crazies are fearful anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Why are there no petitions to ban microwave ovens?<\/p>\n<p>The stupid&#8230; it burns.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the SMH: Some 500 people have since signed a petition objecting to the tower and have put candidates on notice it will influence their decision come election day &#8211; a threat the major parties are not likely to ignore considering the seat is tipped to be decided by a handful of votes Proof that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}