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On Wednesday, July 8, 2015, ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > I understand and I agree with you. Nature thrives around a balance, any > chronic source of upset/pollution, be it chemical or electromagnetic, can > throw that out of balance. A little poison is good for you... > > When I first started mapping wildlife disease two years ago, I mapped > chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer near radar stations (all of the maps > are on my blog) with a link on my menu. > > A university PhD candidate emailed me and told me that chronic wasting > disease is a possibly a type of Protein/Prion disease > > http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.main > Infectious agents of CWD are neither bacteria nor viruses, but are > hypothesized to be prions. Prions are infectious proteins without > associated nucleic acids. > > http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/prion-disease. > > I love my radiation devices but do they love us? > > Hopefully everyone learned something about radars yesterday... > > Stewart > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:58 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','zeropo...@charter.net');>> wrote: > >> Since I was the one who initiated this thread, I feel responsible to >> clear things up… calm down and take a deep breath! >> >> >> >> Dave and Stewart, you two have completely missed the point, and Dave, it >> is clear that you have not read my original post, nor any of the >> references. Let me also say that I may be a bit of an odd-man-out in the >> Vort Collective since I have degrees in both Biology and ComputerSci, and >> it is understandable how someone without the biology background might miss >> the main point I was trying to make. Please read the following points >> carefully: >> >> >> >> 1. the PRF (pulse-repetition-frequency) is NOT the issue or possible >> ‘cause’ I was referring to in my original post. >> >> >> >> 2. the references in my post show that protein reactivity CAN BE AFFECTED >> by THz EM waves IN SOLUTION, causing significant changes to ‘normal’ >> biochemical processes. Since PROPER protein interactions are ESSENTIAL to >> living organisms, and exposure to even very low levels can cause this >> disruption of biochemical processes, it could lead to deleterious effects >> to the organism. Here is the title to one of the refs which states it very >> succinctly: >> >> “Terahertz underdamped vibrational motion governs protein-ligand binding >> in solution” >> >> Let me provide some explanation as to the significance of the wording in >> this title: >> >> - why ‘underdamped’, and ‘in solution’? Interaction of NON-ionizing EM >> waves with biological tissue/processes has always been thought to be HIGHLY >> DAMPED due to the high (salt) water content of biological tissues, thus, >> not likely to cause much interaction with physical elements (i.e., living >> cells and various molecules). And this is probably the case for the vast >> majority of EM frequencies. However, it now appears that protein >> conformation (physical folding 3D shape) has evolved to be in a state of >> near criticality which is key to the proteins ability to interact with very >> specific other proteins or molecules. The underdamped vibrations which the >> Thz waves cause in the protein, or subunits of the protein, although only >> lasting picoseconds, are enough to trigger the conformational change BEFORE >> the protein has a chance to interact with its target protein/molecule. If >> this is allowed to happen on a continuous basis, it could have very >> deleterious effects on the health of the organism. >> >> >> >> 3. If even a minute amount of EM power at very high frequencies makes it >> to the depth of the coral-building organisms, there is a possibility that >> it would disrupt some aspect of their biochemical processes, leading to >> their decline/death. If the radars were only on for a few mins/hours a day, >> the organisms could probably recover, but when hit with it 24/7/365, their >> systems eventually degrade causing death. This is a **reasonable** >> scenario given this new knowledge about how EM can affect protein >> interactions. Is it the cause of coral and other sea-life deaths??? I >> don’t know, but wanted to pass it along… >> >> >> >> 4. Although one of the references was referring to Thz freq’s, it would >> be reasonable to assume that Ghz or lower freqs might also cause similar >> disruption to biochemical processes. >> >> >> >> In looking at this thread, the fact that it got sidetracked is probably >> because most of my original text was deleted early on and Dave did not go >> back to read it… >> >> >> >> -Mark Iverson >> >> >> > >
