If not for my phone I could only get on the net when I'm at home

mike


"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant (AT) mindspring (DOT) net> wrote

"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant (AT) mindspring (DOT) net> wrote

The storey says, "Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the
phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe -
was beginning to hit Britain as well."

Well, unless Britain has not had cell phones until very recently, I would
say that the conjecture that cell phones or cell phone towers disrupt
pollunation is incorrect. AFAIK, the usuage of cell phones in the US, Europe
and UK occurred at about the same time.

In addition, if this conjecture is correct, there should be fewer effects
seen in areas with fewer cell phone towers. And there are areas of the US
and probably Europe with little or no cell phone coverage. There might also
be fewer effects right under cell phone towers because cell phone towers
have their antennae designed so that the radiation spreads outward, rather
than equally in all directions. So the amount of radiation is less right
under the towers (which is also a good reason to locate cell phone towers
near or over schools).

So the conjecture should be easy to test.

Jeff

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:09:03 -0500, "dbu.," <question*mark (AT) einp (DOT) com>
wrote:
You can pry my cellphone from my... No. I might cut my usage if
they find an actual cause and effect link, but I ain't givin' it up -
it's a safety issue.

Try finding a payphone when you need one - they're practically
extinct. And businesses have been burned too many times with scams
(like a customer asking to call a "Toll-Free" number that really
isn't) so they are very reluctant to let you use their phones.

And one of these other odd factors is probably behind the colony
disappearances. They probably got caught in an Africanized Bee Swarm
Trap and were dead before they were found and could get a reprieve.

They swarm to start new hives. The old hive raises a second queen,
and as soon as she can fly the hive splits in two - one queen leaves
and takes roughly half the workers and drones with her. (If they get
confused and all leave, it could cause the condition above...)

They form a big ball like that when the swarm stops for the night to
conserve warmth. When they find a suitable hole or hollow to build a
new permanent hive, they settle in.

The local Agricultural Commission sets out swarm traps (see above)
trying to catch the Africanized bees - it's a 5-gallon plastic bucket
with a hole in the lid, and inside there's a ball on a string with the
starting base of a comb and a triangular plug for the entrance hole.

When the queen and the rest of the swarm thinks they've found a
beautiful hive location they settle in and start building new wax
combs on the base. Their massed weight breaks the string and the plug
closes the entrance, trapping the queen and majority of the worker
bees inside.

--<< Bruce >>--

How long ago was it that the Problem du Jour was the advance of bees from
Africa and South America into the northern hemisphere?





"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant (AT) mindspring (DOT) net> wrote

"Cathy F." <clfr (AT) adelphiadot (DOT) net> wrote

supermarket and yakking on the cellphone....and have heard people calling
home to ask, "should I get a half-gallon of milk or a gallon?"
....and "should I get cheddar or swiss...or provolone?"
Jeez, rent some smarts and ask before you leave home!

I'm overjoyed that the FAA has proclaimed that cellphone use on a plane is
still verboten. Imagine being in the seat next to someone who just 'has
to' keep in touch with friends and family for the entire length of your
trip! It's a good thing airplane windows don't open, or there'd be people
thrown overboard.

"Jeff" <news (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote

When we were in England in 1998, there were seemingly many MORE people with
phones up to their ears than in the US. One day walking in London, I
counted people with phones (connected, that is, to someone and talking)
and the first fourteen pedestrians I looked at had them to their ears, and
the fifteenth walked with hands at his sides, with no phone in evidence!

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:09:09 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
<blnospambergman (AT) earthlink (DOT) invalid> wrote:

The pay phone would come back if cell phones are reduced.

That is market driven.



Scott in Florida

Perhaps once we look deeper we may discover the effect is caused by the
current increases in the number and intensity of sun flairs. There are
those scientist that believe sun flairs are the cause of the current climate
change as well as the effect on microwave transmissions from cell phone,
commutation satellites and the ever growing number microwave land line
telephone transmissions.

Few people realize it was a gigantic sun flair that caused the huge power
outage in Canada and the northeast as well as the failure of many
communication satellites, a few years ago.

mike

"Jeff" <news (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote