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http://www.pcworld.com/article/211219/s ... k=rss_news

Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.

Common guys, log off for the trees... They'll grow funny... or something...

Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame.

In other tree news:

Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... oparticles
That last article is pretty cool!

Well, no Internet for the Ents.

The nanoparticle stuff is pretty cool, but the rest of it really needs a lot more evidence and concrete analysis before I'll believe it.

Avder wrote:The nanoparticle stuff is pretty cool, but the rest of it really needs a lot more evidence and concrete analysis before I'll believe it.

If it was really dangerous, who cares about trees! What about people??! I don't think there's a real danger or people would be suing for having cancer on their laps...

yeah, i'm sure that microwave frequencies are affecting trees that badly.

Speaking of hippies...I just knew Ferno couldn't stay away from this thread. ;P

On a related note, I remember a story I heard about a small town in the UK. The telco had built a huge transmission tower in the town. Shortly after, people started complaining about having head aches and dizziness and so on. They eventually started a lawsuit to prove the tower EMR was causing health problems. During the court case the telco revealed that the tower had not even been activated yet.

ThunderBunny wrote:Speaking of hippies...I just knew Ferno couldn't stay away from this thread. ;P

You knew this was coming. =P

Never I guess?

Mjolnir wrote:

Never I guess?

Is that the California state flag?