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]]> By: pkchukiss http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28093 pkchukiss Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:08:11 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28093 At Meo, who probably won't be reading this: All electronic devices must be switched off during landing and take-off, while all mobile phones must be switched off for the entire duration of the flight. Anybody who actually does take a plane would understand this. .-= pkchukiss´s last blog ..<a href="http://pkchukiss.sgblogging.com/2009/10/13/so-the-money-belongs-to-the-government-now-eh/" rel="nofollow">So… the money belongs to the government now, eh?</a> =-. At Meo, who probably won’t be reading this:

All electronic devices must be switched off during landing and take-off, while all mobile phones must be switched off for the entire duration of the flight. Anybody who actually does take a plane would understand this.
.-= pkchukiss´s last blog ..So… the money belongs to the government now, eh? =-.

]]> By: Oem http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28083 Oem Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:48:58 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28083 The causes of petrol station forecourt fires is static electricity building up in the hoses and triggers. We don't get this problem here in the UK because the trigger does not lock like they often do in the States. The fact that you have to stand there holding the pump handle while you fill your tank means that the static has an easy route to earth so that it never builds up into a dangerously high level. With locking triggers there is no route to earth so there is the potential for a spark as you reach out to take the handle when the pump stops. This can be dangerous because the site of the spark is right by the open filler neck where the air is going to be particularly enriched with fuel vapours. I have no idea what science was behind the ban on the use of mobile phones on petrol station forecourts, but I think it was a case of exercising caution with a comparatively unknown technology. It certainly hasn't saved any lives, but that's probably because none were at risk to start off with. source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN The causes of petrol station forecourt fires is static electricity building up in the hoses and triggers. We don’t get this problem here in the UK because the trigger does not lock like they often do in the States. The fact that you have to stand there holding the pump handle while you fill your tank means that the static has an easy route to earth so that it never builds up into a dangerously high level.

With locking triggers there is no route to earth so there is the potential for a spark as you reach out to take the handle when the pump stops. This can be dangerous because the site of the spark is right by the open filler neck where the air is going to be particularly enriched with fuel vapours.

I have no idea what science was behind the ban on the use of mobile phones on petrol station forecourts, but I think it was a case of exercising caution with a comparatively unknown technology. It certainly hasn’t saved any lives, but that’s probably because none were at risk to start off with.

source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN

]]> By: Oem http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28081 Oem Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:47:19 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28081 It has been proven time and again that using a mobile at a petrol station is not unsafe. source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN It has been proven time and again that using a mobile at a petrol station is not unsafe.

source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN

]]> By: Meo http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28080 Meo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:25:37 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28080 Ok then, bye. Ok then, bye.

]]> By: dk http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28079 dk Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:21:07 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28079 Meo: If you are feeling tulan, there is always a red button with a 'x' on the top right hand corner of your browser. (left hand corner if you are using Mac) Meo: If you are feeling tulan, there is always a red button with a ‘x’ on the top right hand corner of your browser. (left hand corner if you are using Mac)

]]> By: Meo http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28078 Meo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:18:27 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28078 Try bringing a cellphone into an oil refinery or a gas compressor station and you will be sacked immediately. Look up "Intrinsically Safe" (IS) electronics and you will see that it's quite possible for cellphones, 2 way radios etc to cause ignition. It's rare but a risk you don't want to take. AC, low voltage DC and analog control circuits have to go through intrinsically safe barriers before leaving the PLC panels and out into the field when you are dealing with a potentially explosive atmosphere. Mythbusters is highly entertaining but they aren't scientists - they are SFX guys. Don't assume everything you see on TV is true source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN Try bringing a cellphone into an oil refinery or a gas compressor station and you will be sacked immediately.

Look up “Intrinsically Safe” (IS) electronics and you will see that it’s quite possible for cellphones, 2 way radios etc to cause ignition. It’s rare but a risk you don’t want to take.

AC, low voltage DC and analog control circuits have to go through intrinsically safe barriers before leaving the PLC panels and out into the field when you are dealing with a potentially explosive atmosphere.

Mythbusters is highly entertaining but they aren’t scientists – they are SFX guys.

Don’t assume everything you see on TV is true

source : http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116020523AA5xhLN

]]> By: Meo http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28076 Meo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:11:04 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28076 I didn’t say anything about Airplane and you are here insisting that I will say it is safe to use handphone while the plane is landing. Which part of my sentence INSIST YOU SAY IT IS SAFE? It is your hallucination or is it me? The more I talk to you the more tulan I get. You are surely one dude who lives in your own illusion. I didn’t say anything about Airplane and you are here insisting that I will say it is safe to use handphone while the plane is landing.

Which part of my sentence INSIST YOU SAY IT IS SAFE?

It is your hallucination or is it me? The more I talk to you the more tulan I get. You are surely one dude who lives in your own illusion.

]]> By: Meo http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28075 Meo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:02:20 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28075 If it is SAFE for you to use at petrol station then it must be SAFE for you to use in aircraft too because I can call myself an expert and lets go and take a flight together while I switch on my mobile phone and prove to you that it WON'T crash. Get the drift yet? I doubt. I cannot expect you to understand because since you can believe this kind of theory. Why not you go and drive at 300km/hr on ECP and tell the police that you DID NOT crash so therefore it is SAFE. And along the way you can classify yourself as an EXPERT. LOL. Get the drift yet? Still no right? Told you it's beyond your league. If it is SAFE for you to use at petrol station then it must be SAFE for you to use in aircraft too because I can call myself an expert and lets go and take a flight together while I switch on my mobile phone and prove to you that it WON’T crash.

Get the drift yet? I doubt. I cannot expect you to understand because since you can believe this kind of theory.

Why not you go and drive at 300km/hr on ECP and tell the police that you DID NOT crash so therefore it is SAFE. And along the way you can classify yourself as an EXPERT.

LOL. Get the drift yet? Still no right? Told you it’s beyond your league.

]]> By: xizor2000 http://blog.dk.sg/2009/10/13/is-it-safe-to-use-handphone-at-a-petrol-station/comment-page-1/#comment-28074 xizor2000 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:47:53 +0000 http://blog.dk.sg/?p=6132#comment-28074 Fact: If you knock your head on the pillow once you'll probably feel some discomfort, mild pain and perhaps even feel a little disorientated. Fact: If you knock you head on the wall once you'll probably suffer some injury, intense pain and even get brain concussion. Fact 2 does not dismiss or disprove Fact 1. For someone to make a big fuss about Fact 1 being in error using Fact 2 is short of lunacy, if not insanity. .-= xizor2000´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.nowhere.per.sg/?p=1379" rel="nofollow">Commentary – The Baby Bonus Scheme Will Only Fail</a> =-. Fact: If you knock your head on the pillow once you’ll probably feel some discomfort, mild pain and perhaps even feel a little disorientated.

Fact: If you knock you head on the wall once you’ll probably suffer some injury, intense pain and even get brain concussion.

Fact 2 does not dismiss or disprove Fact 1. For someone to make a big fuss about Fact 1 being in error using Fact 2 is short of lunacy, if not insanity.
.-= xizor2000´s last blog ..Commentary – The Baby Bonus Scheme Will Only Fail =-.

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