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    • CommentAuthor23
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2007
     

    I heard this morning that a german study has been released showing that bees after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation can't find their way back to their hives after going out searching for pollen and nectar etc (something like 70% of the bees got lost and died)
    It apparently messes with their navigational systems
    Also i heard that einstein once said that once the bees are gone in 4 years we will die aswell which sounds ridiculous
    can anyone shed light on this situation?

    ref

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/16/nbees16.xml

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2007
     

    electricity is driven by an electric field which is independent of any medium.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2007
     
    Posted By: MrFingers

    electricity is driven by an electric field which is independent of any medium.

    Like rubber or copper.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2007
     
    Posted By: 23

    Also i heard that einstein once said that once the bees are gone in 4 years we will die aswell which sounds ridiculous

    Nobody said this until about 4 years ago, apparently. MAYBE Einstein said this and somebody remembered it many years after he died, but I doubt it. It is reasonable, though. Bees pollinate flowers. Without reproduction of flowers, the entire ecosystem is in danger of collapsing.

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    I killed a bee once by throwing my cell phone at it. Does that count?

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    The whole bees being thrown off by electromagnetic radiation really explains why every time I have been stung by a bee it has always been in my armpit. Maybe it thinks Secret is really a flower.

    • CommentAuthor23
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    Some plants are pollinated in other ways such as wind etc but yeah, take out a can and the display topples.
    if you know what i mean..

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     
    Posted By: freakybella

    Maybe it thinks Secret is really a flower.

    Did you name your armpit?

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    Secret is a women's deoderant, Trance.

    (I wasn't really sure if you knew that or not.)

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2007
     

    oh, LOL!

    Shows what I know.

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    Bees pick up on electromagnetic waves emitted by the high density of bees in the hive. The waves radiating from cell phones and cell phone towers would send the waves from another direction making it much more difficult.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    Can somebody explain to me how bees emit electromagnetic waves?

    No, I didn't think so.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    they carry tiny electromagnets in their teeth?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     
    Posted By: Udoboy

    Can somebody explain to me how bees emit electromagnetic waves?

    No, I didn't think so.

    I can, but it wouldn't be a correct explanation.

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      CommentAuthorlegatissimo
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007 edited
     

    I went to a bbq last evening, and we conducted a little experiment. See, my one friend, he's a garden supply guy -- so he knew how to get a crate of bees. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that we all placed outgoing calls on our cell phones and dropped them in with the bees. You guessed it. Pretty soon they were getting all loopy and strange, and then they dropped dead. Does anyone know if bees are recyclable?

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    I think they can be used to make ice cream.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    Dip them in chocolate and export them to Indonesia. You'll make a killing.

    (especially if they were killer bees)

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    Bury them beneath your petunias.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     

    I think I'd finally get a cell phone if it did the same to mosquitos.

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    It won't work for mosquitos. The insect must have antennae of the right length. The effect is more pronounced when the wavelength is an integer multiplier of the antenna length. It is possible that a bluetooth transmitter works this way. That's why people wearing bluetooth headsets get bitten less frequently - especially on the ear.

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2007
     
    Posted By: Taed

    I think I'd finally get a cell phone if it did the same to mosquitos.

    No arguments there!

    • CommentAuthor5010
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    I don't know if this is related, but my brother who works in telecom said one of the features of phone speakers is the ability to transmit sound THROUGH ear wax. Ear wax... bee wax? There's probably a link.

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      CommentAuthorTrance
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    They're both a kind of wax? :shocked:

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    How about through turtle wax?

    • CommentAuthor5010
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    There has been a decline in turtles too. I think you're onto something!

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2007
     

    Don't forget sex wax. I'm pretty sure there's been a decline in sex too, if my life is any indicator.

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      CommentAuthornyarfdude
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
     

    Missing Jollywood, are you?

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