• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    What’s up with comms towers? High-voltage AM antennas are not that abundant anymore. Are birds getting cooked close to high-power transmitters? Shot to avoid interference with crucial military infrastructure? Is 5G real?

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well the image claims to be based on data from 2015, so no 5G was not real at that time.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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        6 months ago

        That was a joke, and so was the previous sentence (a reference to the birdsarentreal conspiracy. Seriously, how do comms towers harm birds?

        Edit: collisions with tall AM towers’ guy wires

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn’t know anywhere near that number even existed.

    But then again…

    Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that’s over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.

    That’s amazing, no?

    • pafu@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.