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[Pilcher, Fred]

Ivan informed us:
> Don't panic, folks - tinfoil is a thing of the past. Thank goodness  
> for the cosmetic industry. Not long before we get WPF ratings (along  
> with SPF ratings) bundled on the labels of 'skin products'...
> 
> NOVEMBER 27, 2006
> FACIAL SPRAY TO PROTECT SKIN FROM CELL PHONE RADIATION
> French beauty group Clarins will launch in January what it says is  
> the world's first spray to protect skin from the electromagnetic  
> radiation created by mobile phones and electronic devices like  
> laptops, reports Scotsman.com News.
> 
> "The spray contains molecules derived from microorganisms 
> living near  
> undersea volcanoes and from plants which survive in extreme  
> conditions such as alongside motorways and in Siberia."

0_o The mind fairly boggles. One assumes that the researchers have determined that the same molecules that protect these microorganisms from volcanic heat and corrosive chemicals, and from stray Siberian ox-carts, also reflect or absorb electromagnetic radiation at cell phone frequencies.

That raises at least four questions that I can think of:

- What evolutionary advantage was conferred to these little critters in the dim dark past by being able to deal with cell phone radiation?

- If the radiation is absorbed, what's it converted into? 

- If the radiation is reflected, what effect does it have on transmission/reception and on other people towards whom it's reflected?

- Is it as effective as anti-ageing cream?

Fred 
  
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