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At my age, it's nice to learn something new. Even though it's the same something I learned a week ago ;)

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CRS: Can't Remember... Shit, I forgot how it ends. :)

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In the land of RE, a re member can be a penis.

"member noun, often attributive
mem·​ber | ˈmem-bər
Definition of member
1 : a body part or organ: such as
a : LIMB
b : PENIS
c : a unit of structure in a plant body
2 : one of the individuals composing a group
3 : a person baptized or enrolled in a church
4 : a part of a whole: such as
a : a syntactic or rhythmic unit of a sentence : CLAUSE
b : one of the propositions of a syllogism
c : one of the elements of a set or class
d : either of the equated elements in a mathematical equation"

dominion over ... the Isle of Man

I think that belongs to Mark Higgins and the Subaru STI race team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg5Sp1iQMc

which explains the behaviour of members of parliament and members of the house in the US congress.

Along with the upper political echelons of every major world government.

which explains the behaviour of members of parliament and members of the house in the US congress.

Here's a better explanation.

1. The intelligence of a committee is roughly proportional to the average intelligence of the committee members divided by the number of committee members. avg(IQ)/#members.

2. The US Congress is a committee with 535 members.

Think about that for a while. The average IQ of the general population is 100 by definition, so the IQ of the US Congress is roughly 100/535 or around 0.2

and members of the house in the US congress.

Members of the Senate are immune?

Just wondering why you didn't mention the Senators, who are, along with representatives, called "members of Congress." Does "not really" mean something different from "no"?

Not really, but they're called senators and not members of the house.

Technically, Members of the House aren't called members of the House either. It's the House of Representatives and it's members are properly called Representatives.

In Washington DC, both Senators and Representatives are usually called "members" by their congressional staffers. It may not be "technical" and it may not be formal and it may not be what the books tell you to call them - but it IS in wide usage.

In Washington DC, both Senators and Representatives are usually called "members" by their congressional staffers.

Generally in the context of calling them members of Congress, referring to Congress as a whole rather than to the Senate or House separately. This is largely part of an effort to avoid the gender specific congressman/congresswoman.

In Washington DC, both Senators and Representatives are usually called "members" by their congressional staffers.

Generally in the context of calling them members of Congress, referring to Congress as a whole rather than to the Senate or House separately. This is largely part of an effort to avoid the gender specific congressman/congresswoman.

Are you sure it isn't a way to call them a bunch of penis heads?

I think the phrase you are looking for is "Pecker heads" not "Penis heads"

Also the US Congress mostly works in committees mostly of a dozen or so members. That gives committee chairmen and subcommittee chairmen more power. So the average IQ of Congress is nearly ten (115 divided by 12).

That's only the IQ of an individual special purpose committee, not congress as a whole. Congress as a whole is still one very large committee.

A publication that makes the National Enquirer seem sane and reasonable.

No, you are right, it is 100% real.

Now just look directly into the neuralyzer, this won't hurt a bit.

You touch my tinfoil hat I'll smack you. lol

Neuralyzer's work through the optic nerve, your tinfoil hat is useless against it.

You touch my tinfoil hat I'll smack you. lol

Neuralyzer's work through the optic nerve, your tinfoil hat is useless against it.

Tin makes a sucky Faraway cage. Have you considered Flerovium?

Tin makes a sucky Faraway cage

A Faraday cage has to be fully enclosed anyway. As I understand it, the point of the tinfoil hat is to act not as a Faraday cage, but as a reflector against RF/microwave radiation.

I always thought the tinfoil hat was to help them cook their few brains more!

I suppose that depends on whether they wear it shiny side out or shiny side in. :)

A Faraday cage has to be fully enclosed

Not really, full enclosure is better (but the enclosure and all joints must be conductive), but provided the longest dimension of any openings is less than about 10% of the shortest wavelength (highest frequency) of interest, nothing significant gets through. This is why you can look into a running microwave oven without cooking your eyes; that metal mesh in the door closes the opening of the door, completing the enclosure.

However, what's commonly called tinfoil is not made of tin, it's aluminium (aluminum for the colonial rebels), which although is a better conductor than tin, also has a tough surface oxide layer which prevents conduction across joints, reducing its efficacy in a tinfoil hat. The only place I know of we can find tin domestically (apart from the plating over steel for 'tin cans', and solder in electronics) is the foil caps for many premium high proof beverages sealed by cork (preferably single malt). I recommend making you tinfoil hat with real tin foil scavenged from plenty of these bottles, after consuming the contents of course.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Waves/mwoven.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Waves/emwv.html#c1

Might want to check your 'facts'.

Might want to check your 'facts'.

From the link you gave:

Even though you can see into the microwave oven when your food is cooking, the microwaves are effectively blocked from getting out into the room because the holes in the metal screen on the microwave oven door are about 1 mm in diameter compared to a 120 mm wavelength for the microwaves. The wavelength of the microwaves is about 120 times the size of the holes, and can't "see" the holes to get out.

Last time I checked, 1/120 was less than 10%

λ = v/f

Next comes an understanding of wave mechanics.

Then follow that with an understanding that the hole in question has to be less than 1/2 the λ. The safety factor involved in a microwave oven door does not equal the actual requirements to block the microwaves. Microwave oven doors are overkill engineering.

Regarding the links, they were a starting point. I learned a long time ago not to debate the finer points of a technical discussion with someone unwilling to follow through with support of their argument. If they are unwilling to do their own homework, nothing I say or do can change their opinion or mind.

At least you read the link though. That's more than most do before they toss out wiki links as if they wrote them.

understanding that the hole in question has to be less than 1/2 the λ.

Interesting things happen at λ/2: the holes act as slot antennae, and this size provides the optimum coupling from one side to the other. Many mobile phone antennae use a waveguide with λ/2 slots to deliberately couple the signal to the outside world. However, it doesn't form a 'brick wall' filter so that slightly higher frequencies are blocked, rather they are attenuated at a rate I assume from experience in the wired world to be about 6dB/octave, so the transmittance with λ/10 holes would be about 0.1%. Even then that's not the whole story - X-ray machines have a filter to filter out the 'soft' X-rays, and this is a continuous sheet (no holes) of aluminium - the harder (>~70kEv) X-rays pass through it, albeit with some attenuation (exposure times are increased to compensate).

A real-world example I had was for an Oxygen sensor on some equipment I was designing. I sent the circuit diagram of the company standard for this (plus mods to suit the new equipment) along with various notes to the PCB design house (I was too busy with other aspects of the design to do the PCB layout as well), and the design as returned suffered from extreme sensitivity to interference (would alarm if a mobile phone was in use within a few metres). I redid the layout of the sensor PCB to better match my notes (minimum loop areas, balanced input paths, maximum ground plane coverage with minimal holes) without changing the circuitry, and the new layout survived having a mobile phone resting on the sensor with a reading change of only about +-2 in the last digit (better than 100 times less change). With the mobile phone frequency of 1.8GHz, this gives λ/2 at about 8cm and the whole PCB was only 3cm across so should have been immune by your reasoning, and the old design longest ground-plane void was about 15mm, λ/2 for about 8GHz which is well above mobile phone frequencies. My re-layout had a longest ground-plane void of under 5mm which should have given an improvement of about 12-18dB, so some of the overall improvement will have been due to the other measures, but this illustrates the point.

ETA:

At least you read the link though.

No, actually I opened it, glanced through the content, and said to myself, 'OK, that's what he's using'. The math-heavy link I opened, said to myself 'Looks familiar, I'd have to go back to the textbooks to check it, but I trust this website, and anyway the theory is not too relevant to the discussion'.

ETA2:

Quiz type question: does anyone know which physicist-authored SF book had aliens communicating with humans (initially) by thermal X-rays? It's such a strong concept, it stuck in my mind.

I thought male ants were large and winged.

I thought male ants were uncles. :)

I know you're not serious because I've never seen one carrying a magic wand ;)

Read the latest Kris Me story...

Less than 10% of the microwave wavelength so the electromagnetic waves missed him. :)

With no turntable or (microwave) stirrer, there will be a standing wave pattern with peaks of power and areas of no significant power, with the peaks roughly 6cm apart so there's plenty of room to fit an ant into a hole in the power distribution. You might have meant it as a joke, but it's exactly right.

For me the most annoying "feature" of microwave ovens is its limited penetration depth. If you deepfroze stew or any other
dish in 3 person portions, you will find the microwaves wont penetrate deep enough. So while the outer parts get already warm there remains a frozen core.

In the textile industry they use HF-driers based on the same physical principle but deeper penetration.

HM.

In the textile industry they use HF-driers based on the same physical principle but deeper penetration.

That is a function of wavelength. The higher the frequency, the less penetration. The lower the frequency, the higher the penetration.

That is until you get into ionizing radiation frequencies. There are other effects that come into play there.

The industrial microwaves you speak of are not safe for the general public to use. Nor would they be cost effective if available to them.

Edit; remember that's in general terms. There are exceptions like about everything else, especially when dealing with em waves and the specifics of the materials in question.