Antz
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Originally posted by Ian
Its to do with radio frequency energy being emitted from the phone, if powerful enough you can cause sparks and of course ignite stuff. Its a precaution - modern mobiles run at about 2 watts and you need 8 or more during some fairly unique conditions for a real risk.
[Edited on 03-06-2004 by Ian]
They did something one that sky ne program about science.... the weird one where they tried to blow up that safe..... they put about 10 mobiles in a caravan full of petrol and rang them, it did nothing...... but then a guy wearing nylon clothing run on the spot and touched a wire that went to the caravan... the hole thing went bang!!!
WHERE'S THE SIGNS ABOUT NOT WEARING NYLON??????
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Jambo
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Pykies be wear
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Ste
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They probably don't allow them on forecourts to cut the risk even if it is very slight as they would only be following their risk assessment that someone drawn up years ago.
Aircraft don't allow them as when the pilot is flying along, all he can hear is bleep bleep bleep down his headset (like when your phone is left near a radio.
Hospitals, again probably due to a risk assessment that was drawn up years ago and never will get changed.
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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chris_uk
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Originally posted by SEAN_CDTI
Yeah its bollocks cos they also say ur not supposed to use them on aircraft n the aircraft i work on it don't affect em one bit. 
on mythbusters they proved that in a controlled enviroment without shielded wires the phones do tamper with the planes systems.. but to find a plane that has unshielded wires and in a big copper/brass meshed box is goingto be highly unlikley.. so they do tamper with them, but with the products they use it wont cause any problems.. so your kinda right but kinda wrong.
and on the petrol station myth. they proved that wrong aswell.. they filled a box up with petrol gasses, tested all sorts of phones and none of them blew it up, also when they thinned out the mixture it still didnt work.. then to find out what did it took a good bolt of electricity to blow it up..
they are on youtube but cant find them
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Graham88
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I hated enforcing the mobile phone thing when I worked in Sainbury's, cause it's bollocks. It seems to be one of those things that's happened once and they had to take all these measures to prevent it happening again.
So as Ste W said really.
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Robbo
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mobiles will be allowe don planes in the very near future, trials have been concluded and recommendations made
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