Larkee
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I was reading up some tech papers on the upcoming 5G networks, when something caught my eye: It's going to use the same frequencies as those used by the US military to flush out terrorists from caves in Afghanistan. The military sent out 5G radiation that had some major health effects on the terrorists, forcing them to come out.
This is alarming because if used improperly (i.e. crowd control?) these rays can actually be quite hazardous.
It gets worse: there are plans to send up 20.000 satellites to inondate the surface of the planet in 5G radiation, basically creating a grid that will not only allow anyone with access to the data collected, to track anyone else, but also put this data at risk of hackers or foreign military forces being able to access it.
They are basically planning to cover the planet in untested, 5G radiation.
https://es-ireland.com/5g-5th-generation-greater-dangers/
This worries me to an extent.
Being tracked isn't a huge problem, hey if you don't want to be tracked: Just turn off your phone...
What bothers me is that there is a potential for any military that wants to and has access to this grid, to be able to turn it into a VERY damaging "death ray." Maybe this is what Tesla had in mind when he said in his papers that he had discovered a "death ray" that scared him so much that he destroyed all his research on it.
Discuss.
I was sent this article at work like a week ago. I've read it for entertainement while sitting in the plane awaiting for de-icing at YUL. First of all, just imagine the kind of expenditure it would take one, to build 20,000 satelites and two, send them into orbits. Then the article states 5g won't reach more then 300 meters. Hmm, the distance between surface of the earth orbit altitude is unknown to me but I do know for sure that it is a LOT higher then 300 meters. Also, a UE will not transmit more then 200mW of output and it very rarely ever does so. The RF conditions have to be very bad or be quite a bit far away from the serving cell. Also when the UE is idle, it's not transmitting anything unless you got apps in the background using network ressources. In fact, when idle, the EPS core doesn't even know your phone exists and your phone will just listen to the paging channel,2 or 3 times (depending on operator settings) for every chunk of 10ms and even that is passive listening. Only if it needs to acess network ressources will it start transmitting.
5g will be faster yes but it's main goal is mostly spectral and energy efficiency.