[meteorite-list] Moble phones attract asteroids!

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:31:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <498551.72762.qm_at_web50908.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

If only it were true, I'd be out in my garden now
trying to attract a couple of hundred kilos of
Lunarite. Curse that April fool malarkey!
Rob McC

--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

>
http://www.mobilegazette.com/mobile-phones-to-destroy-earth-07x04x01.htm
>
> Will Mobile Phones Destroy the Earth?
>
> 1st April 2007
>
> A shock report out this week will show that mobile
> phones prevent a bigger
> threat to the environment than anyone has imagined -
> in fact, it states that
> continued use of mobile handsets will lead to the
> extinction of all life on
> Earth.
>
> The claim seems outrageous, but it is backed by
> solid scientific prove that
> shows that the next text message you send could be
> responsible for the end of
> civilisation as we know it.
>
> The work by Professor Fr?hling Dummkopf of the Luton
> Institute of Astronomical
> Research is the first in its field, and it examines
> the interaction of small
> bodies such as asteroids, meteors and comets in
> close earth orbit with the
> effective of the electromagnetic fields generated by
> modern cellular devices.
>
> We interviewed Professor Dummkopf about these claims
> in a Mobile Gazette
> exclusive.
>
> MG: Professor Dummkopf - it seems to us that mobile
> phones are very tiny things
> and asteroids are quite big things that are a very
> long way away. Are you saying
> that the two can interact?
>
> Professor: Yes, although of course it takes more
> than one mobile phone to
> destroy the earth!
>
> MG: So, explain the problem for the benefit of our
> readers.
>
> Professor: It is really very simple. Most asteroids
> are primarily carbonaceous
> or silicaceous with a much smaller number of
> metallic asteroids. Out of this
> last group, a number of objects seemed to be
> anomalous.
>
> MG: Such as?
>
> Professor: Well, 21 Lutetia is probably one you've
> heard of. That one had been
> puzzling us for a long time because we couldn't
> classify it.. however careful
> observation and research has lead us to believe that
> it is primarily made from a
> crystalline Scandium based alloy which forms
> remarkably regular superlattices
> that measure 0.3331 metres across, so you can see
> the problem straight away.
>
> MG: Go on.
>
> Professor: Well of course, 0.3331 metres is the
> wavelength of a signal broadcast
> at 900 MHz. And it's twice the wavelength of a
> signal broadcast at 1800 MHz.
> These are the most common frequencies used by mobile
> phones. Put simply, we
> discovered that the structure of the superlattice
> "tuned in" to mobile phone
> signals.
>
> MG: So aliens are listening to our phone
> conversations?
>
> Professor: That would be silly, but what we did
> discover is that the resonance
> of the radio signals is causing electromagnetic
> induction in bodies such as 21
> Lutetia which has the effect of shifting their
> orbits. That orbital shift is
> actually towards the earth. You could say the the
> earth has been charged up like
> a giant magnet and is pulling the bodies towards us.
>
> MG: You said bodies, do you mean that there's more
> than one?
>
> Professor: Yes, in fact [mobile phone rings] Sorry,
> I'd better get this. Hello?
> Yes, I'll be home at about seven o'clock. Yes, pasta
> will be fine. I've got to
> go. Errr.. where were we.. oh yes, we think that
> about 0.01% of small bodies in
> the solar system exhibit this property. That doesn't
> sound like much, but there
> are between one and two million bodies over one
> kilometre in size.. so that's
> about one or two hundred objects, some of which will
> be quite close to us. And
> 21 Lutetia is about 100 kilometres across. If that
> hits, then basically the
> earth is toast.
>
> MG: So we're all going to die?
>
> Professor: Yes.
>
> MG: So there's no chance you are wrong?
>
> Professor: We don't think so, although we did have
> to make certain assumptions.
> For example, the growth in mobile phone ownership
> over the past 25 years has
> been around 20,000 fold. If we assume the same rate
> of growth, by 2032 there
> will be 40 trillion handsets in use on the earth.
> That could present a serious
> problem.
>
> MG: Indeed Professor Dummkopf - we'd like to thank
> you and the institute for
> your time.
>
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