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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Cancer. All ruzzians driving these tanks are going to be getting cancer.

[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

HARM is a category of weapon which seeks things like radar or jammers. They weren't suggesting that the jammers are literally harmless.

In unrelated news: the jammers are, in fact, harmless unless you're making a habit of riding on top of the tank. The radio energy isn't going to penetrate a significant thickness of conductive material, such as armour plating. Or unless you're the person being jammed, in which case they're a different category of harmful

[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

why would this cause cancer? isn't it non ionizing radiation?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Ionization is not the only way RF can affect the body. You can generate plasma at low RF energy that is not ionizing. Yet the plasma is bad for you. So if you can generate plasma in vacuum with non ionizing RF, imagine what it can do to anything it can couple to.

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