Once I get done with my Faraday cage for my smart meter...

[Stonent]

A few days ago in my database class I overhead the girl that sits next to me utter that phrase and it caught my interest. I asked her whatever for? And she went on about some friends of hers that had bad health after the smart meter was installed at her house and didn't get better till she moved to a new house without one.

I tried to explain to her about correlation and causation but it didn't work. I said that they can't possibly be any more dangerous than a cell phone which is a few cm from your brain when in use but she just repeated the story about her friend so I dropped it.

No real point to this story I guess other than this is the first time I met an anti smart meter person outside of YouTube.

[Artlav]

There are people with an aura of destruction.
When they walk past a light pole, it gets extinguished.

No use explaining that they walked past thousands of poles before one happened to flick out at the same time.
It's an aura of destruction, and that's final.

[n45048]

Reminds me of the "mobile phones will cause planes to fall from the sky" or "mobile phones in petrol stations cause fires" argument 

[G7PSK]

I was also going to say about the phone batteries catching fire but was beaten to it by Mojo-Chan. I was told by the Captain of a plane I flew on that the real reason they don't want people using phones on planes is due to the explosion risk apparently particularly high at disembarkation due to the kerosene vapors hanging around the plane after landing, if a phone is dropped from the plane as a passenger leaves and lands on the concrete the battery can burst and explode, I expect that the use of covered walkways has reduced this risk hence the drop of the phone ban.   

[coppice]

I was also going to say about the phone batteries catching fire but was beaten to it by Mojo-Chan. I was told by the Captain of a plane I flew on that the real reason they don't want people using phones on planes is due to the explosion risk apparently particularly high at disembarkation due to the kerosene vapors hanging around the plane after landing, if a phone is dropped from the plane as a passenger leaves and lands on the concrete the battery can burst and explode, I expect that the use of covered walkways has reduced this risk hence the drop of the phone ban.

I've never seen anyone banned from carrying a cell phone onto a plane, or even powering it up. You are only prohibited from letting it transmit. There are genuine reasons for this. If you have worked in the aircraft industry you should know that serious unexpected EMC issues surface from time to time, even in mature equipment. Cell phones affect lots of equipment. Most people recognise the purring pattern from a GSM phone that is near many audio products. It is usually older equipment that gets affected, and you usually need to be quite close to it. However, a lot of aircraft equipment is quite old and some passengers are probably not too far from some of it. When you consider the potential consequences of a problem showing up, the ban is a sane precaution. After years of experience of people not putting their phones into flight mode when they should, and aircraft systems not showing too many anomalies because of it, the airlines are gradually relaxing the no transmissions rule.

[lapm]

There are people with an aura of destruction.
When they walk past a light pole, it gets extinguished.

No use explaining that they walked past thousands of poles before one happened to flick out at the same time.
It's an aura of destruction, and that's final.

I have that destruction aura some what... At least in work.. If machine has bug in its code, i'm sure to stumble over it... And i'm just operator who supposed to just press button and it works... Or at least that's what my boss keeps telling me when i ask raise...