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From: rcmcc@whuxi.UUCP (MC_CONNELL)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Bees do it? (no joke?)
Message-ID: <270@whuxi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:17:38 EST
Article-I.D.: whuxi.270
Posted: Wed Feb 13 08:17:38 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:42:28 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J.
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The February 1985 issue of the IEEE Spectrum
magazine has an article on the possible
effects of 60 Hz electric power fields on human 
health.   On page 65 is a picture of two
beekeepers/experimenters(?) working on a bee hive.
Under the picture is the following explanation:

  "Studies of possible ecological and agricultural
   impacts of 60-Hz field exposures have been
   negative, showing no signifigant effects on
   crop growth, livestock, or other animal life-
   except honeybees.  When the electric field in a
   beehive is high enough so that the potential
   drop across a bee's feet produces shocks, honey
   production falls and other behavior becomes erratic..."

Now my question is, what else did they expect?
I believe that my behavior might become erratic
with arcs between my toes.

Ron McConnell, Bell Communications Research
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