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  • Wifi on aircraft or getting the sack

    Would you like airline staff to treat you like a sack of potatoes? Fat chance! you might say. Well, it’s too late! Engineers of Boeings aircraft used sacks of potatoes as stand-ins for passengers while they tested aircraft Wi-Fi signals—because, they said, potatoes behave in a similar way to the signals to humans. Really? Apparently none of the 9000kg of potatoes developed headaches, irritability, memory or concentration problems, depression or brain tumours