I am hardly pro-business or unconcerned about the environment but I think there are some good reasons to doubt this theory, not least of which is that bee dissappearance was first observed in the US and the apparently spread to Europe which is the opposite of cell phone penetration patterns. The slashdot discussion of this has some reasonable objections to this (as opposed to the merely cranky). Still it could be true....
Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The prime suspect in the disappearance of bees all over the world are telecommunication radiations in the higher frequencies. This applies to cell phones and all sorts of other microwave propagation currently in great vogue, including wireless computing. A number of controlled tests have been conducted, primarily in Europe, that do appear to confirm that such radiation, even at the reduced levels of power that would typically be present at locations where most bees tend to live and feed and pollinate, interfere with the navigation systems that bees use. Bees in these tests were found to individually fail to be able to navigate back to their hives, left to die and thus unable to supply their hives with needed nutrients for the survival of the colony. It has long been known by beekeepers that bees cannot be successfully maintained in locations near high voltage power lines, and now it appears as though high frequency radiation also destroys bee colonies. Since the entire world depends upon bees for the production of food, if this current theory proves to be correct, will it be the bees that have to go or the cell phones, etc.? Just surmising. Steve ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
