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From: punia@uvm-gen.UUCP (David T. Punia)
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Subject: Re: Microwave and UHF sound detection
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  Does anybody recall hearing the story a few years back
about the American embassy in ? being bombarded by microwaves?

  The physiological effects of chronic long term exposure to 
microwave radiation (not the short term, heating effects) are
still under study.  My guess is that they may not be that harmless.
As for genetic effects, one must not procreate to see the effects
of genetic mutation.  Your body creates millions of new cells each
day.  If the genetic material of reproducing cells is altered, usually
they do not reproduce.  But sometimes the ones that do are called 
cancer.  It is a well documented fact that a significant number of
individuals that worked around radar antennae during the war now suffer
from cataracts.

  Another interesting note:  The Soviet Union's regulations regarding
spurious microwave emissions (e.g. from microwave ovens) are fully
two orders of magnitude more stringent than the US's.  Maybe they (who?)
are not telling us something.


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