A: You can fit even more lawn chairs closer to that high-powered, pulsed microwave radar. Get on it, we have seats to fill! Also, the current seats are available as the previous guests are puking in their rooms. Find some more guests!
In recent years, affordable prices and user-friendly systems have greatly increased the number of radar units in use on sailboats. But this surge in radar use has come with some risk of exposure to microwave radiation. Given the size of these sailboats, radar scanners are often mounted in close proximity to crew, or even to people on nearby docks or other boats. It is possible, although not probable, that these persons can be exposed to levels of microwave radiation that can exceed the recommended safe limits.
Microwaves (RF energy at radar frequencies) can be hazardous if the intensity is sufficiently high. Microwaves are absorbed by the water in living tissue and their energy is converted to heat that may easily damage some organs, particularly the eyes, which may develop cataracts. For safety, always avoid looking directly into a scanner whether the radar is transmitting or not. It is well known that microwaves will interfere with cardiac pacemakers and it is common place to see the warning signs in public areas where microwave ovens are in use.
It has also been shown that long-term exposure to low levels of microwave radiation can induce a variety of physiological effects in small laboratory animals. The importance of these effects and their relevance to humans are not yet fully understood. Again for safety reasons, you should avoid long-term exposure and radar units should be operated only when needed for navigation
or safety. When the radar is not needed, it should either be in standby mode (not transmitting) or turned off.
Obviously, the radiation levels associated with marine radar units will vary according to the particular make and model. A radar unit of three kilowatts up to approximately 0.5 watts per centimeter squared, operating in the X-band at 3-1/2 feet from and at the same height as the scanner, can be encountered. OSHA has determined that the recommended maximum safe level of exposure to microwaves is 0.2 milliwatts per centimeter squared. The average intensity can be as high as 0.8 (milliwatts per centimeter squared) when the scanner is stationary. At a distance of 7 to 10 feet from the scanner, the average intensity drops to safe levels (i.e. below 0.2 mW/cm2).
At points above or below the scanner’s horizontal plane, the radiation level is lower than that measured at a corresponding point on that plane. However, it must be noted that the average radar has a rather large vertical beam width (20 to 25 degrees) and microwave radiation is beamed about 10 to 12 degrees above and below the horizontal plane. At 5 feet from the scanner and 1-1/2 foot below the scanner, the average intensity can still be in excess of the OSHA safety limit.
For these reasons, the scanner should be mounted as high as possible. You should also ensure that the radar is not transmitting when crewmembers are aloft or working in the area of the scanner. Crewmembers should be briefed about the hazards of RF energy and instructed to avoid the scanner by a minimum horizontal distance of 6 feet and a vertical distance of 2 feet when the radar is operating. Crewmembers should be briefed to not remain within the hazardous area for prolonged periods.
During normal radar operation, the average exposure is reduced, because the scanner rotates and a person is exposed only when the beam sweeps past. For example, a person standing three feet away from a four-foot rotating scanner is exposed to less than 20 percent of the average radiation level of a stationary beam. Exposures to microwave radiation above the recommended safe limits are most likely to occur in the immediate vicinity of a transmitting scanner when it is stationary. When the scanner is rotating for normal radar operation, average exposure is below the recommended safe limits; even at points as close as 3 feet.
Some radar units are designed to prevent emission unless the scanner is rotating. Other models, however, lack this safety feature. In these cases some care is required on the part of the operator to prevent unnecessary exposure of crewmembers. Operating procedures should be adopted which ensure that no microwave radiation is emitted except when the scanner is rotating.
A good rule of thumb for all small marine radar units is that the equipment should be turned off when not required, particularly in areas of high population density (e.g. at dockside and when moored in the area of other boats).
WTF?
Hypoxia Symptoms in Passengers Triggered by on-board Doppler Radars and Fog?
I guess it is pretty obvious I have developed a severe aversion to pulsed Doppler microwave radars during the course of my research. I realize they are used to “protect” humans from “weather” and used in aviation and to protect us from bad guys (ourselves?) in the military and such, but is the price we are paying for this our health? It appears to me they have parked those Doppler radars right over the passengers on those cruise ships, overlapping multiple radars hidden inside those round radomes. That radiation is bending and reflecting off “weather phenomena” and other ships. So what happens when a ship goes into a “fog bank” which is very common over the ocean when there is an “inversion” (see my previous posts on those what causes those)? Does all of that microwave radiation get attenuated locally and right back into the ship and those passengers hanging out and swimming in the pool right below the radars? And what if that radiation triggers a similar hypoxic condition in bloodstreams of those passengers like I am seeing in Florida in the Indian River Lagoon around those local 7 or 8 microwave radars? Here is the latest high seas high jinks:
2nd Cruise Ship Outbreak: Fog, Not Illness to Blame for Ship’s Return to Port
A Princess cruise ship cited fog – not an outbreak of stomach virus – as the official reason for returning to a Houston-area port on Friday. More than 180 of the 3,104 passengers aboard the Caribbean Princess suffered from a gastrointestinal illness, apparently with highly contagious norovirus, USA reports, but officials insisted that a dense fog advisory was what promoted the ship’s early return.On Tuesday, the crew announced the ship, which originally planned a last stop in Belize, would turn back due to a sea fog advisory that could close the ship’s port through the weekend. The National Weather Service says it issued a warning about sea fog from Friday through Sunday and The Port of Houston says pilots halt all docking activity if fog is too dense.
But passengers on the Caribbean Princess question officials’ version of the events. “The sentiment on the ship became more that it wasn’t because of the possible fog,” Doris Hajewski, 66, of Waukesha, Wis. told the Associate Press. Hajewski said that the crew announced on the second day of the cruise, a seven-day jaunt that would have taken passengers to Belize, that people had come down with the norovirus and that precautions were taken to make sure it didn’t spread. According to the Houston Chronicle, while the ship was still en route, ship employees implemented recommendations for preventing further infections and increased cleaning and disinfection. The ship, which set sail Jan. 25, is the second cruise in a week to return to it’s home port in the wake of an outbreak of the disease more commonly known as the stomach flu, which causes diarrhea and vomiting. On Wednesday, Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas returned to port in Bayonne, N.J. after more than 20% of its passengers fell ill.
They are blaming it again on Norovirus, I will let you compare symptoms with Hypoxia, hell maybe the atmosphere is ionizing the passengers and creating the single celled virus in conjunction with the hypoxic conditions in bloodstreams.
Norovirus causes inflammation of the stomach or intestines or both. This is called acute gastroenteritis.The most common symptoms—
- Vomiting
- diarrhea
- throwing up
- nausea
- stomach pain
- fever
- headache
- body aches
Hypoxia Symptoms
Hypoxia refers to a low concentrations of oxygen in the body or body part. The condition arises from a mismatch between the amount of oxygen demanded by the body and the amount of oxygenated blood that is supplied.The symptoms of hypoxia depend on the severity of the condition and the rate at which it becomes a more severe hypoxia or anoxia (no oxygen present).
- Nausea & Vomiting
- Headaches
- Fatigue or tiredness
- Breathlessness or shortness of breath
- Palpitations may be seen in the initial phases of hypoxia. As hypoxia progresses, the heart rate may quickly fall by a significant degree. In severe cases, abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmias may develop.
- Raised blood pressure in initial phases of hypoxia is followed by lowered blood pressure as the condition progresses.
- Light headedness
- Skin and nail beds may turn bluish, a condition called cyanosis. Cyanosis is one of the most common signs of hypoxia. The tips of the fingers, toes, ears and nose may become cold and bluish in colour. Cyanosis arises because blood that is low in oxygen is a dark bluish-red colour that can change the appearance of the skin from a pinky red to a bluish colour.
- Euphoria or sensation of dissociation from self
- Confusion, memory loss and cognitive problems
- Disorientation and uncoordinated movement
- Severe hypoxia can lead to loss of consciousness, seizures or convulsions, coma and even death. Breathing may become slow and shallow and the pupils of the eyes may not be responsive when light is shone on them.
“I walked down the gangplank and collapsed – completely blacked out. I got the flight back home and I was staggering all over the shop.“I was slurring my speech – on one occasion I blacked out while chopping vegetables,” she recalls.The holiday ended in January 2008 but Michele-Marie still feels as if she is on that cruise ship. She’s been seasick for five years.”It’s like the disorientating feeling you get after coming off a waltzer at the fair – all the time. It’s horrendous.”
Sounds like severe hypoxia to me and possible brain damage. I think it is the Doppler Radars, but you already knew that.
Titanic sank due to ‘mirage’ caused by freak weather
Groundbreaking new research into the sinking of the Titanic has revealed the ship crashed because the iceberg was disguised by an optical illusion. One of the world’s foremost experts on the doomed passenger liner has discovered evidence a “mirage” was the cause of the famous crash.Tim Maltin spent six years scouring previously unseen records and the results will be shown on television in an upcoming documentary, Titanic: Case Closed.He believes a “haze” created by air currents caused the optical illusion – similar to the blur seen on a road during a warm day.Mr Maltin analysed previously unseen weather records taken from more than 75 ship’s logs from the week the liner sunk on 15th April 1912, killing more than 1,500 people.He found that a unique set of weather conditions caused an abnormal bending of light known as “super refraction.”Despite the absolutely clear conditions that night, the mirage horizon camouflaged the iceberg and caused the lookouts to spot it too late on the ship’s maiden voyage from England to New York.Historian and author Mr Maltin says the illusion would also have disguised the emergency flares sent up by the ship’s doomed crew from the vision of the nearby SS Californian.He said: “For years Titanic’s lookouts were not believed when they said the iceberg came out of a haze on that clear night, but now we know they were telling the truth.
Here is a good research paper on cosmic string gravitational lensing.
Nasty shipmate: Why norovirus spreads on cruises
Norovirus thrives in closed-in areas such as dormitories, hospitals and cruise ships. About 1 in 200 voyages had widespread illness, estimates CDC. It has not been the best season for cruise ships. By the time the Explorer of the Seas docked at Bayonne, N.J., in late January, more than 600 passengers and crew members were sick to their stomachs. And the Caribbean Princess arrived in Houston the same day after an outbreak sickened at least 192 people onboard. Over the past five years, an average of about 14 cruise ships a year have had outbreaks of diarrheal illness, and the culprit is almost always norovirus, as it was on these two ships.
Norovirus is a genus of genetically diverse single-stranded RNA, non-enveloped viruses in the Caliciviridae family.[1] The known viruses in the genus are all considered to be the variant strains of a single species called Norwalk virus. The viruses are transmitted by fecally contaminated food or water; by person-to-person contact;[2] and via aerosolization of the virus and subsequent contamination of surfaces.[3] Noroviruses are the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis in humans, and affect people of all ages.[4]
Hey, you wanted a theory of everything…
Green Circles are Weather Doppler Microwave Radars. Grey areas are Chronic Wasting in Free Ranging animals. Yellow is Chronic Wasting in Captive Animals
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a disease of the nervous system in deer and elk that results in distinctive brain lesions. It continues to be a major issue for wildlife scientists throughout the Nation, and a key focus for research at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC).
Evidence from auditory nerve and brainstem evoked responses for an organic brain lesion in children with autistic traits
In an attempt to resolve the question as to whether children with autistic traits have an organic nervous system lesion, auditory nerve and brainstem evoked responses were recorded in a group of 15 children with autistic traits. The most obvious results included a longer response latency of the auditory nerve and a longer brainstem transmission time, compared to normal children. Five of the autistic children were found to be profoundly deaf. These results strengthen the theory that an organic lesion of the nervous system can give rise to autistic traits.
This editorial briefly reviews the significance of lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in the intestinal tract of children with autistic spectrum disorder. The distinction between physiological and pathological lymphoid hyperplasia of the intestinal tract is of importance in the context of a possible causative link with autism. A primary intestinal lesion may occur as part of the broad spectrum of immunological disorders to which autistic children are prone.
Research on CWD is concentrated on:
- Understanding how the disease is transmitted among elk and deer, understanding the patterns of infection, and determining how infection rates differ according to age and sex of the animal.
- Searching for indications of genetic resistance to CWD, and developing tools for understanding CWD epidemics.
- Studying the role that infected deer carcasses play in CWD transmission and how feeding and baiting may affect transmission patterns.
- Exploring the susceptibility of small mammals and their potential role in the transmission of CWD.
The NWHC continues to investigate CWD in Wisconsin and throughout the Nation. NWHC scientists provide general information, consultation, and assistance to state agencies. NWHC staff participate in the multi-agency CWD Science and Health Team and the Research Team, providing analyses and advice crucial to determining the distribution of the disease in and around the Midwest.
Through collaboration and research, NWHC scientists seek a better understanding of the dynamics of CWD in wild populations as it expands over different landscapes. Scientists at the NWHC are committed to the belief that collaboration with many different agencies is critical to understanding and controlling this disease.
Chronic Wasting Disease Quick Fact
CWD infects elk, white-tailed deer, and mule deer, but is not known to infect livestock or humans at the present time. No treatment is known and the disease is typically fatal.
You know, wildlife has no way to come indoors to escape the chronic 24/7 increase in weakly ionizing radiation from our quantumsphere above our heads that our fine governments are increasing due to those radars pulsing microwave radiation.
Until further notice I suggest all expectant mothers, kids and elderly avoid the outdoors within a 50-100 mile radius of all microwave radars until physicists find the missing 95% energy in the universe and governments consult with their quantum gravity loop/string theorists and get back to you.
Circles are approx. 70 mile radius around NEXRAD microwave towers in Tampa and Melbourne. Lots of other radars overlapping also, actually around 12, I lost count…
Lots of holes and some fish kills in that overlap area of those radars in central Florida. NEXRAD radars have approx 150 mile total range +/-
I guess if my theory is correct, wherever you get overlapping radars you ought to get an increase in sinkholes in the ground along with more algae blooms and fish kills. I don’t know what you guys think but those look like holes to me. I think this stuff acts like an acid, donating protons as it decays and ionizes/dissolves that limestone at a higher rate. At least that’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Keep it up and Florida might split into two pieces, one half falling into the Atlantic and the other half into the Gulf…
2-19-14 Florida Doppler Reflectivity, (F) 2012/2013 Fish Kills Due to Hypoxia/Red Tide/Algae, Pins are sinkholes, (W)aterspouts, (M)anatee Deaths.
So I have run new numbers based upon the additional radars I have discovered in my research for Florida. The p-Values are still way below 0.01, ie. p<<<<<<<0.01 for the Null Hypothesis “No relationship between Microwave Doppler Tower Locations within 10, 15 & 20 miles of fish kills due to hypoxia, algae blooms and red tides”. I am playing with the distance, it appears that in Melbourne, Florida most of the dead and diseased biology is with 15 miles of all of those high powered radars pulsing 24/7. I’ll publish something professional in a couple of weeks. Until then I am going to continue to act like an angry child and continue to rant on my blog because freedom of speech is a great thing.
I don’t ask you to believe me, I think you should ask a young kid. Kids tend not to have developed preconceived notions like us adults. Explain to them each of those colored circles are radars pulsing hundreds of thousands or millions of watts of overlapping microwave radiation through the atmosphere and through all biology 24/7. Tell him it is the same type of radiation that you cook his food with. Tell him there were many concerned scientists in the 1990’s that thought more research should be done and that these radars, which were originally only used by the military, may not be safe for biology. Then, tell them to take a close look at my graphic along with the picture below. Ask them what we should do. They will tell you the truth. My 10 year old said “It’s obvious dad”
It’s no wonder grandma and grandpa soon forget who we are after we have sent them to Florida to retire.
Godspeed
Dark Matters a Lot 
