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7486618 No.7486618 [Reply] [Original]

My dad's a microbiology major.

He just said that my laptop produces xrays. I literally don't know how to convince him that it does not. Wat do?

>> No.7486625

>>7486618
your dad was from a time before laptops and probably stopped learning after he got his degree, so he'll buy into the media bullshit like any other parent. don't expect him to know the complicated physics of wavelengths of photons.

>> No.7486637

>>7486625

>>implying the physics of light waves is complicated
>>implying optical physics and radiology weren't discovered and we'll understood long before his dad was even born

Nope sorry your answer is a cop out. OP's dad is just mentally lazy

>> No.7486639

>>7486618
>He just said that my laptop produces xrays. I literally don't know how to convince him that it does not. Wat do?

He's probably just misremembering. CRTs did produce (tiny) amounts of X-rays; LCDs don't but he may just have remembered that "computer displays produce X-rays"

>> No.7486652

Well, duh. Phones produce xrays too.

>> No.7486659

>>7486639
yeah, OP is an autist.

HEY OP, GUESS WHAT, PEOPLE MISREMEMBER THINGS AND STILL HAVE PHDs

>> No.7486703

>>7486659

Nice shitposting. If you had any ability regarding reading comprehension, you would have noticed that I asked how to convince him and not explain why he came to that conclusion.

2/10 made me reply.

>> No.7486728

>>7486618
You usually need an assload of voltage for something to produce a harmful amount of voltage. They use to do this with tubes by putting copper at the bottom of them and using around 1kV.

>> No.7486731

>>7486728
Meant harmful amount of x-rays, sorry.

>> No.7486732

>>7486618
You know scotch tape can produce xrays anon. Why couldn't a laptop?

>> No.7486737

>>7486732
if only my laptop had pockets of vacuum where I could use triboelectric discharge to make x-rays...

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7486743

>>7486732
>>7486732
>>7486618

It's too late, OP. You have ass cancer.

>> No.7486748

Ask him to explain how, and once you understand all of his arguments, systematically refute them like a good fucking scientist.