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This is my goal. Yes very far fetched but man I want this body so bad! I'm hoping I I look at this picture every day I will stay motivated..
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i dont think my body could ever look like the above picture, no matter how hard i tried, without spending $$ on surgeries.
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Eat balanced and lots of water.
Small portions and if you snack it should be things like seeds, nuts, fruits and veggies.
Good luck, wish me the same!
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Kuddos to you for looking for motivation! Pinterest is great for that too. I've also got a few subscriptions to health magazines that help me stay motivated.
I myself have fallen off the wagon this season and feel the pull in my jeans. I'm going back to logging my foods and eating clean come January.
You ladies will be surprised what you can look like, don't say you can't have a six pack, YOU CAN! :)
90% of it is diet.... You should go on one of those online calorie trackers to see how many calories you should eat and stay within that range... coupled with both cardio exercise and some resistance training you will be on your way. Pin that picture up on your fridge and your snack cabinet too :) LOL
It is hard to find the motivation, do you have anyone that is close to you that will diet and exercise with you? That always helps! :) Good luck!
I keep a"before" picture near/on the fridge so I can keep that in mind before reaching for anything to eat.
Keep healthy lo cal snacks at eye level in the fridge. I love:
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Keep a diary of what you eat for one week then look back at it. I use the Lose It! App and friended my coworkers for a friendly competition.
I aim for AT LEAST 30 mins of exercise 3-4 days a week. I go hiking with my work buddies once a week. No excuses.
Once you get to a weight/fitness level where you can run 5 mins without dying I recommend p90x, you'll start seeing results within 2 weeks (seriously). This helps with plateus as well.
Aerobic exercise burns fat, but weight training creates muscles which burn more calories in a resting state.
When you exercise, your body burns carb sugars before starting on fat stores. Try to avoid carbs pre-workout to burn more fat. If you can, eat a high protein dinner and workout before breakfast then try for low carb high protein after workout.
Don't eat high carb meals before bed. You are not burning that many calories while you sleep.
Do not starve yourself, your body will go into starvation mode and hold on to every pound of fat you have. Or it will come back super fast when you start to eat again.
The more water you drink, the faster the weight will come off (less water causes your body to hold on to water).
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Hurricane Sandy has continued to organize overnight. She has established a CDO with an eye present at times. Sandy continues to be a significant threat to the Mid Atlantic and the NE. She could be a historic storm with massive consequences. Currently Sandy has 85mph winds, a 946mb pressure, and she is moving N at 15mph. Aircraft recon is currently investigating Sandy to see if she is strengthening further.
Hurricane Sandy has made great strides in organization over the last day. An inner core has developed and persisted along with a CDO forming. This recent organization is due to conditions becoming marginally favorable. Wind shear has been decreasing over Sandy, noted by UW-CIMSS wind shear maps. You can also tell shear has decreased as there are not as many high clouds moving rapidly over Sandy. Sandy is also over the Gulf stream, an area of warmer waters that flows from the Gulf of Mexico, which is good for strengthening. ASCAT, OSCAT, and recon have confirmed that Sandy still has a strong circulation. Recon has found flight-level winds near 115mph at times, but those winds aren't mixing down to the surface. However, the building convection over Sandy should be able to mix some of those winds down to the surface. I think Sandy should be able to strengthen a little more while she is still tropical. I also think Sandy will remain fully tropical until just after landfall. With the structure of Sandy looking more tropical in nature my thinking is likely. Tropical or non-tropical, Sandy will be deadly. Areas in Sandy's path may experience winds a little higher than previously expected due to the uptick in organization. No matter how strong Sandy is at landfall a big area will receive TS force winds. Sandy is one of, if not the largest, hurricane/TS on record for wind radius. Any increase in the winds will allow just a little more to be spread out. Another reason for some intensification is some baroclinic energy being pumped into Sandy. A negatively tilted trough over the eastern US is responsible for this energy. This energy should lower the pressure, widen the wind field, but lower the maximum winds. It should also aid in the extra-tropical process for Sandy. I don't see the winds dropping off until landfall but it will happen pretty quickly when it does. I am a little slower in weakening Sandy since she will be receiving the baroclinic energy. Winds will be a pretty big threat with Sandy since they cover a large area.
The track of Sandy is still not totally straight forward. Models have a great consensus on the track of Sandy. They say Sandy should make a landfall in S NJ. However, Sandy might have other ideas in where she wants to go. Sandy has been tracking east of the models and NHC forecast point for the past day. This could lead to a slightly later turn to the NW. I think a C NJ landfall is likely at this point due to this but Sandy could still track into S NJ. The negatively tilted trough is in the process in turning Sandy to the NW. This is unusual in the NE as most storms are turned out to sea, not inland. A ridge off to the E stops Sandy from recurving to the right and the negatively tilted trough helps steer to the NW. The NHC has done a different approach with warnings issued in the NE than other storms. Due to Sandy likely turning extra-tropical near landfall they have not issued hurricane/TS warnings. They have left the warning process up to the NWS offices to issue hurricane wind warnings/storm warnings. To me this is an iffy call but the NHC/NWS are the experts, not me. The effects of Sandy remain the same in the NE no matter what warnings are issued or what sandy is classified. A major storm surge threat is expected in NJ, NY, and surrounding areas. Low lying areas have been evacuated to higher ground as up to 12 feet of surge is possible in some spots. The NYC subway system is at a moderate to high risk of flooding. If that happens then there will be major economic losses from Sandy, hopefully it doesn't flood. Heavy rain won't be a major threat from Sandy but it is there. Up to 10" of rain can be expected in some areas which will cause some flooding. Even a snowstorm is likely in the mountains with 1-2 feet of snow possible. The winds will cause large amounts of damage to trees and power lines. We will need to monitor the situation closely for the next few days. If you are told to leave by officials, PLEASE LEAVE. Do not ignore warnings/officials and think you can ride out the storm. This is a very dangerous situation and lives will be lost. Do anything you can to protect yourself and your family.
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This was a treat to read because it took me back to when I first was introduced to romance novels. It starts quite innocently, two very young girls becoming friends at a festival. It includes adventure, betrayal, highlanders, English, ignorance, religion, despair, sadness, and triumph, all dipped in romance.
A Great Scottish love story. Gotta love the Scottish man warrior sagas! Francis Catherine (scottish) & Judith (english) meet & became friends as young children before they knew that they were suppose to hate each other. Their friendship continued into adulthood and when Francis Catherine married to the laird's brother gets ready to give birth to her 1st child - her friend Judith travels from England to the highlands to assist her friend where she falls in love with the least likely person but a secret about her family background could destroy any possibility for happiness. (if you like Outlander - you would probably enjoy this one too!0
A story that will make you laugh and cry, easily feeling the heroine's emotions, is what the author's historical books are famous for. And I've read this one at least a dozen times since it was first released over 20 years ago.
Lady Judith from England promised Frances Catherine from the Scottish Lowlands that she'd be there for the birth of her first child. The best friends haven't seen each other in 4 years and Frances Catherine is married to a Maitland, a Highlander, whose clan does not like outsiders, much less the English. But Judith is determined to fulfill her promise and spends 2 years learning as much as she can from different midwifes while not actually ever witnessing a birth. A contingency of warriors comes to fetch Judith, led by her friend's brother-in-law, the Maitland Laird. The two are attracted, but she knows nothing can come of it. The father she's never met is Laird Mclean, the Maitland's worst enemy.
The book is loaded with chaotic humor, more so in this story than even the others, as Judith finds a number of things and the way the clan has always lived, are backwards. She'd promised she wouldn't be a bother or cause a problem with her presence, but you know we wouldn't have much of a story if that didn't happen. And it's all for good.
Judith is both vulnerable in a number of ways, and yet determined to right wrongs or give someone a hand, even when doing so puts her in a really uncomfortable position. The fact that the Maitlands quickly accept her is done in a very believable way. Iain is a gruff character, as often befits the role of Laird. But from the start he's possessive of Judith even while telling her not to put any meaning to their kisses. It doesn't take him long to realize he can't let her go and would walk through purgatory for her.
There are so many books by this author's early writings that I would highly recommend. If the rating system was up to 10 stars, this is one of the few I'd give a 10 to. Would I feel the same way if I was reading the story now for the first time? The rating would be very good but not quite as high. What we expect and accept in the way two people treat each other has changed over the decades.
Garwood's Medieval's hold a special place in my heart. While The Wedding will always be my favorite, The Secret comes in at a close second.
I loved this book. Funny, charming, steamy and lovely, a wonderful combination to spend a couple of hours.
Judith and Frances Catherine were supposed to be enemies, one being English and the other Scot, but their friendship survived along the years of the war and hatred.
When Frances Catherine married Patrick Maitland she made him promise that when she was with child she wanted her friend Judith with her. This was not an easy task because the Maitland clan hated almost everyone, especially the English but since a Maitland keeps his word, Judith was to come and escorted by none other than Ian Maitland, Patrick's older brother and laird of the clan.
Needless to say that Judith was not what they expected her to be. Beautiful, sassy, courageous, charming and not at all fearful of the might laird, she proved that an English woman is a normal woman.... except for a secret she and Frances Catherine shared all these years, one that could very well send her to England and away from Ian.
Well, I'm a sucker for medieval romance; there's something about a man on a horse, riding to battle with big weapons, full of muscles and a sexy kilt, with an air of arrogance and manners of a caveman.... I'm sure I'm not the only one :) but I digress....
I adored Judith, she is funny and bold with an innocence so charming that it's impossible not to like her. She's uncertain of her future and herself but she can turn that to her advantage and be even more likable. When she and Frances Catherine are together, they are really funny.
About Ian, well, I guess that one look at Judith turned her mind to mush because we do not see the warrior but a man speaking of love and worried about her happiness.
In general it was a great read, full of laughter and love. I recommend it to everyone who likes "light" historical romance.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671744216, Mass Market Paperback)Judith Hampton was as beautiful as she was proud and loyal. Her dear Scottish friend from childhood was about to give birth, and Judith had promised to be at her side. But there was another, private reason for the journey from her bleak English home to the Highlands: to meet the father she had never known, the Laird Maclean. Nothing prepared her, however, for the sight of the Scottish barbarian who was to escort her into his land...Iain Maitland, Laird of his clan, a man more powerfully compelling than any she had ever encountered.
In a spirited clash of wills and customs, Judith reveled in the melting bliss of Iain's searching kisses, his passionate caresses. Perplexed by her sprightly defiance, bemused by her tender nature, Iain felt his soul growing into the light and warmth of her love. Surely nothing would wrench her from the affection and trust of Iain and his clan...not even the truth about her father, a devastating secret that could shatter the boldest alliance, and the most glorious of loves!
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We suggest: It shouldnt take months to draw up this form.
After Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August, we knew it wouldnt take long for lawsuits to be filed against insurance companies.
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NRA-ILA: House Bill 60, the most comprehensive pro-gun legislation in state history, goes into effect today, July 1. HB 60, signed into law by Governor Nathan Deal (R) on April 23, enacts the following pro-gun reforms for law-abiding gun owners in Georgia: Removes fingerprinting for renewal of Weapons Carry Licenses (WCL). Prohibits the state from creating and maintaining a database of WCL holders. Creates an absolute defense for the legal use of deadly force in the face of a violent attack. Lowers the age to obtain a concealed WCL from 21 to 18 for active duty military with specific training.
Allows for the use of firearm sound suppressors while hunting.
Repeals the unnecessary and duplicative state-required license for a firearms dealer, instead requiring only a Federal Firearms License (FFL).
Prohibits a ban on firearms in public housing, ensuring that the right to self-defense should not be infringed based on where one calls home.
Codifies the ability to legally carry, with a WCL, in sterile/non-secure areas of airports.
Requires reporting of those persons who have been involuntarily hospitalized or have been adjudicated mentally deficient to the NICS system while also providing the ability for relief through an application process to the court system allowing for restoration of gun rights.
Protects the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners from being restricted or infringed by executive authority under a declared state of emergency.
Strengthens current firearms preemption statutes through further clarification of the regulatory authority of local governments, excluding firearm discharge ordinances.
Removes the sweeping restrictions on legally carrying a firearm with a WCL in bars, leaving this decision to private property owners.
Allows for churches to opt-in for legal carry with only a civil penalty of a $100 if a person happens to carry into a prohibited church unknowingly.
Your NRA-ILA thanks you for your active involvement during the 2014 legislative session, which helped ensure these measures became law. As always, please stay tuned to
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By Daniel firstname.lastname@example.com A 32-year-old Texas man has been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a 2007, fight-night killing. Nelson Carlos Guajardo allegedly shot and killed Derek Leondra King around 4:20 a.m., on Sunday, May 6, 2007, after watching Floyd Mayweather, Jr., beat Oscar De La Hoya by a split decision in a televised, 12-round, Las Vegas boxing match. Guajardo and King, a 29-year-old Jonesboro man, got into an argument in the living room of a College Park apartment on Flat Shoals Road, and the man living there threw Guajardo out, according to Clayton County police. King stepped outside for a cigarette, and was shot once in the chest with a .40-caliber bullet. According to the indictment handed down by a Clayton County grand jury Wednesday evening, Guajardo "did, unlawfully and with malice aforethought cause the death of Derek King, a human being, by shooting Derek King with a handgun." The detective investigating the homicide, Steven Rotella, wrote in his arrest warrant application that the man, who has a Texas driver's license, had family in Morrow and Jonesboro. When he was thrown out of the apartment, he drove off in a gray or silver Ford Tarus and allegedly fired five bullets at the apartment. "This is the situation as it is known," Rotella wrote. "He intentionally fired five shots from a handgun into the residence ... where one of the gunshots struck Derek King in the chest area, causing his death." The shooting surprised police, because the fatal bullet was apparently fired blindly, passing all the way through the house -- through the carport wall, the living room wall, the living room, the dining room, and out the back door -- before killing King. The man apparently finished his cigarette and stepped into the doorway and the flying bullet hit him in the chest. It was unclear, initially, if the drive-by shooting was random, or if unit H-4 at Dahlridge Apartments was actually targeted. Within two weeks, though, detectives had wanted posters out on Guajardo, describing the suspected murderer as a 230-pound, six-foot, Hispanic man "known to frequent areas with adult entertainment establishments." Witnesses told police they'd seen Guajardo's Ford speeding from the scene after the five shots were fired. A witness, who watched the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight with Guajardo, told the detectives he had a conversation with the man about the gun, asking him to unload it so it would be safe. The witness reportedly asked about the caliber of bullets, and Guajardo allegedly said his handgun fired ".40-caliber hydroshock," the same size and style of bullet found at the apartment. Guajardo, who is also know as Anastacio Gonzalez, and "Telly," is facing charges of murder, aggravated assault and various weapons allegations. According to police, he has a history of violence, including domestic violence and a fight with an officer. He faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison, if convicted.
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Someone has to invent the future. And NASA wants a piece of the action. The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was created to encourage scientists and engineers to think outside the box, to come up with ideas just this side of science fiction. Their hope is that some of these ideas will pan out, and provide the agency with technologies it can use 20, 30, or 40 years down the road.
|Penny Boston and Diana Northup taking a pH or ORP measurement in the Ragu passage (Cueva de las Sardinas. Tabasco, Mexico).
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Earlier this year, NIAC funded Dr. Penelope Boston and Dr. Steven Dubowsky to continue working on a NIAC project to develop "hopping microbots" capable of exploring hazardous terrain, including underground caves. If the project pans out, hopping microbots may some day be sent to search for life below the surface of Mars.
Boston is the director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program and an associate professor at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. Dubowsky is the director of the MIT Field and Space Robotics Laboratory at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is known in part for his research into artificial muscles.
Astrobiology Magazine interviewed Boston shortly after she and Dubowsky received their Phase II NIAC grant. This is the second and final part of a two-part interview. In Part I Boston described the hopping microbot concept. In this part, she talks about the swarm-like behavior of large groups of microbots that enables them to perform sophisticated research tasks.
Astrobiology Magazine (AM): You and Dr. Dubowsky are working on a project to develop microbots, miniature robots that could be used to explore subsurface caves on Mars. One of the technologies you're focusing on is having a group of these microbots act in concert as a swarm. What would this swarm behavior look like?
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Penny Boston (PB): We imagine them having a number of different algorithms. So there would be a deployment strategy, where they would be spreading themselves out, seeking, and keeping contact with each other. And then when a particular unit finds something that falls within an area of interest – for example, emissions of chemically reduced gases, like sulfides or methane, that might have biological significance – then it would switch to some kind of ensemble mode. It would put out a call and the entities that are in the immediate vicinity that have the talents that it needs to further investigate that finding would switch to the mode where they would make their way over. Then we would have a concentration of all of the available sensing and analytical modes to bring to bear on this particular interesting find.
AM: You said that these microbots would operate with simple rules. I'm wondering, how simple could you get and still do something useful?
PB: Well, apparently it's very simple. I'm no roboticist myself, but one of the things that captured me about Rodney Brooks's work back in late 80s into the 90s with insect robots was how simple a set of relational rules from one unit to another could produce extremely complex and capable behaviors. That comes directly from biology. An individual ant has a very limited palette of behaviors with which it relates to its fellows and its home nest and so forth. And yet their behavior, as they meet the exigencies of their environment, is extremely complex. As an ensemble they're very, very capable. So even though the basic rules of the microbots are very simple, the emergent behavior of the system, which is directly modeled after the way communal insects behave, is extremely effective.
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Image Credit: Render by R.D.Gus Frederick
AM: You'd also need a set of simple triggers to get the behaviors started. You mentioned methane detection as one. What are some of the others?
PB: The detection of any chemically reduced gases that are associated with life on Earth – that would certainly be one indicator. Other indicators would probably have to be processed in a way that would allow pattern recognition. And pattern recognition software is being worked on actively. One of the things that attracts our attention as human investigators is when we find anomalous deposits of soft materials in the caves that we work in. We work with all sorts of bizarre substances in caves that are the product of biological activity interacting with the mineral and rock environment in the subsurface. Those tend to be high-contrast against background.
I can imagine that being a fairly simple algorithm when applied to a robotic device. Even though we come at them as human investigators with our big brains, what triggers us to start on the process of investigation of something is really a simple set of rules, which we then take to great lengths of complexity as we analyze them. But we're envisioning these guys as doing step-one recon, to call attention to something that's worthy of future investigation. Even if one had a human base on Mars, these guys could be used to do the initial recon in difficult terrain.
They could also be used as a tool for planetary protection. The ability to render something like this aseptic is much greater than trying to render a human investigator aseptic. So we could send them places that are of potential biologic sensitivity to do the initial testing. I can even imagine using something like this as a permanent interface. If one is concerned about keeping an actual find of martian life (or potential martian life) protected, then keeping it one step removed from human investigators on site seems like another potential application. We think that this is a very generalizable approach, not only for life detection on Mars, but also for getting into difficult terrain on worlds that are not exobiological targets.
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AM: You mentioned that when you see gooey or spongy stuff in a cave, that's a pretty good indication that biology's involved. But when geologists look at ancient rocks for evidence of biology, the older the rocks, the harder it is to tell whether what they're looking at is of biological or of chemical origin. Do you think this microbot strategy is better at finding extant life than ancient life, or do you think it could be equally well adapted to both?
PB: I think it can be adapted to both. That's based partly on the unique nature of biosignatures in caves, which are very different from surface outcrops. If one is looking for fossil material (for example, microbial fossils) in outcrops, that material has undergone a great deal of alteration from surface weathering. On Earth it's undergone a great deal of other types of alteration as well; the extent of that on Mars is still debatable. But in any case, if something is surface exposed, it's going to have been in the harsh martian surface conditions for significant period of time. What we find in Earth caves is that, because they are protected from surface weathering, the preservation of biological activity, even when it is lithified and has become fossil remains, is exquisite.
We have been studying many different kinds of materials and structures in caves where the organisms clearly were self-lithifying. They were in very mineralizing environments – analogous to what goes on in Yellowstone, where the high-temperature mats are undergoing a great deal of lithification as they're growing. We find the same thing in caves, and in caves we then have protection of that material from surface influences. So once it is formed, it's there for you. The preservation of microbial fossils is exquisite and easily visible. The biofabrics and biotextures are untouched.
People tend to think that caves are very short-lived. Some of them are. But a lot of the deep, ancient, pristine caves that we work in, which are much more analogous to what we would expect to find on Mars – being in a very arid environment, and therefore not altered by a great deal of fluid flow – here we see things that are probably millions of years old without any kind of subsequent alteration. So caves are treasure houses for protecting the materials that actually once lived in them. We're getting real expertise in being able to detect those formations with human investigators. What we're learning from that, I believe, is quite translatable to the robotic units that we're anticipating.
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So I guess the answer is this: If the only traces of ancient life on Mars are in very deep pores, in sediments that are very, very deep in the planet, then these microbots are not going to uncover them. But neither are surface missions. So this is another way of looking at environments that may have preferentially housed organisms in the past, and may have preserved those materials much better than surface materials.
AM: All right. Now for the sci-fi question. Do you ever worry that some behavior among these entities might emerge that causes them to go off and do their own thing, or attack their home base?
PB: Well, I suppose it's possible they could go awry. But because the strategy employs a limited number of basic interactions between them, even though the emergent behavior is complex, I think it's quite steerable. And since we're not going to mount them with any weapons capability – they're going to be very benign – the worst that I can imagine happening is mission failure, where they decide to troop off somewhere else and do something else. But we've had mission failures before. We'll have them in the future. I guess that's a possibility.
AM: It would certainly make for an interesting story.
PB: Yes it would: Microbots Claim Mars for Selves!
AM: Are there any near-term applications of this technology?
PB: We're very interested in their near-term use. Even on Earth there are potential spin-offs from this – being able to have little units that could get into difficult or small or hazardous places. We're thinking about mine and cave rescue; we're thinking about getting into human structures that have collapsed as a result of natural or man-made disasters. There are a number of non-extraterrestrial applications for these that might push the development of them sooner and also be a valuable contribution to problems that we have here on Earth.
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I can speak from experience: Do not use meths as bbq starter!
Meths as a bbq starter!?
Yea, that can really kill an appitite.
Cell Phones and gasoline?
Whats the issue with cell phones?
RF can detonate some items Ray.
Did you know that Angora and other fuzzy sweaters were banned on pads at Cape Canaveral? During fueling, the high oxygen content on the pad caused O2 to adsorb to a sweater, and the static electricity discharge caused a severe fire? So, they had signs prohibiting sweaters beyond a certain point on pads there.
Did not know that.
I wonder if Angora rabbits are also a risk?
Other furry critters?
Re: RF... Has there been actual cases of this problem with cell phone users?
Is that the reason we have to turn off all communication devices during take off and landing?
When you drive through a construction area in which they may be blasting, you are warned to turn off radios and cell phones. So, there must be a serious question having arisen somewhere.
The reasoning behind turning off cell phones and electronics for take off and landing is the theoretical chance of them interfering with the plane's avionics. To be certified for use in an aircraft every electronic component must be tested. Since testing every cell phone/dvd player/walkman/computer/gameboy/etc. isn't practical, they just require all of them to be off.
The reality is that the avionics are built to be resistant to electronic interference, since there are plenty of uncontrollable sources, and the gadgets used by passengers are unlikely to cause problems. But rules are rules, and they are the rules for good reasons.
Mythbusters did an piece on this a while back, they found that yes, it's possible, but in practice, on a plane with modern avionics, not likely.
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When you drive through a construction area in which they may be blasting, you are warned to turn off radios and cell phones. So, there must be a serious question having arisen somewhere.
In my youth, I read I.E. DuPont's excellent book, "The Blaster's Handbook". (Side note - And I wasn't surpised about the Oklahoma Courthouse Bombing having read that book. I think Timothy McVey must have read it too.)
According to that book, which was written in the 1950s, RF can cause an electrical current in the long lead wires that are connected to blasting caps. A radio with sufficient wattage, can make enough current to detonate a blasting cap, and then set off the dynamite or other explosive being used. For that reason, they are required to be off in areas where blasting is being used. Modern cell phones generate much less RF than old mobile phones and portable radio units do.
As far as the claim that cell phones can cause fires at gas stations, while it is theoretically possible, no fires have been attributed to cell phone use when thoroughly investigated and it is an urban legend. Static electricity can, but no cell phones have.
Kirk - out to debunk urban legends when I see them.
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For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
Never forget that mythbusters can get things wrong as well. They said splinters from wood hit by cannonballs was harmless but these same splinters have been written up in many old books as the source of major injuries aboard seagoing ships of that era. There are others that come to mind, but you have to remember that RF can generate a current in a wire and if there is a gap in the wire a spark can jump. This is "can" not will. In fact, back in the old days, we were even concerned about the heat generated by radio tubes in radios in our labs. (we never did anything about it though )
I might add that we had special refrigerators at Kodak due to the propensity of commercial units to explode due to the small switches sparking when the door was opened and there was a solvent present. I saw a demonstration that blew the door off one unit.
Explosion-proof refrigerators for solvent use is a known, and as you have witnessed, a real concern.
Certainly, Mythbusters can get it wrong - got to their website and they admit as much. They have revisited many of the episodes to try new variations on the hypotheses. But it has not been shown by actual investigators that these pump fires are caused by cell phones, despite what it claimed by the news or chain emails.
I remembered in the mean-time, one important fact!
We used special conductive clothing and shoes when working in the solvent coating area. Any spark could cause a severe fire or explosion.
And yes, no one is right 100% of the time. I just feel that it is better to be safe than sorry. Why sub your own film when it has been shown that you can buy it pre subbed.
The "vibrate" feature of cell phones use small motor with non-concentric mount weight. My understanding is, a tiny spark created by the brush of that motor can possibly cause an explosion during fueling gas. Personally, I think, if that's a concern, door switch on cars that turn on/off dome light can do the same.....
I kind of understand it as a precaution, and to keep an watchful eye over the task at hand - fueling of gas, which basically is dispensing explosive and highly flammable liquid/gas in large quantity into a mobile container.
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