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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30930 on: April 24, 2013, 04:28:53 pm »

I got another one since posting that :P
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« Reply #30931 on: April 24, 2013, 04:46:01 pm »

Did I just discover a psychic power for improving my internet speed? I should be able to market this somehow...
I vaguely recall coming across some research back when I was in high school (so like 10+ years ago) about psychic influence on computers.  IIRC they had a random generator program and had the study group focus on trying to manipulate the results using only their mind.

They apperantly had some success.  With the study group repeatedly having a higher occurrence of the target result than the control group.

It was of course, so fringe science that it makes crypto-zoologists studying dragons seem mainstream. And since there haven't been any psychic breakthroughs in those 10 years it was probably bogus.  But it still makes you wonder...

Theoretically, our brains use electromagnetic impulses to communicate between neurons, generating a weak electromagnetic field around our bodies, so our presence could actually influence electronic devices to some extent. So, if we had a technology that could read changes in our electromagnetic fields and find some way in which humans can naturally and deliberately affect the field we generate, we could use that as a sort of user input.
I have a book that talks about that kind of research(I got it for $1, what a steal ::)), including that particular experiment. And yeah, a group of people concentrating on altering a RNG, and the results showed a significant shift in the bell curve in the direction the group was concentrating on.

It also talked about various experiments in remote viewing, including declassified CIA experiments. In a lot of these cases, supposedly, a person was given only geographic coordinates, and could apparently sketch a fairly accurate diagram and floorplan of a (often secret) site at those coordinates. One humorous incident from these experiments was when someone drew a sketch of a different secret facility a few miles down the road than the one they were supposed to scry.

There was a chapter about kinesis, but unfortunately macrokinesis(basically, spoon-bending and Vader-choking) sounded like it turned out to be a bunch of bullocks. Microkinesis, manipulating things like microbes and RNGs, seemed plausible(in the context of the other stuff).

One interesting thing was that from all the experiments, most of them that were run by people who believed it was true the results showed that it might just be, while most of the ones that were run be people who that it was a bunch of crap the results showed that it probaby was crap.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30932 on: April 24, 2013, 04:51:18 pm »

Which is why proper science is double blinded. The people doing the actual experiment and recording don't know what they're testing, and the people being tested don't know either. It's only the people who put the whole thing together that usually have an inkling.
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« Reply #30933 on: April 24, 2013, 05:06:18 pm »

Neat!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30934 on: April 24, 2013, 05:11:09 pm »

Basically our brains are positronic.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30935 on: April 24, 2013, 05:15:13 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30936 on: April 24, 2013, 05:16:49 pm »

* Skyrunner imagines nuclear reactions happening as part of metabolism
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
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« Reply #30937 on: April 24, 2013, 05:21:08 pm »

That'd be an interesting energy source for an autotroph. Soon to be an ‼autotroph‼.
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« Reply #30938 on: April 24, 2013, 05:38:16 pm »

* Skyrunner imagines nuclear reactions happening as part of metabolism
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
It'd be even better than you may be thinking, though.

We could hunt by simply standing near something and letting the radiation fry them. We'd be the most powerful military in the galaxy, because all we'd need to do is be near to an enemy, and the radiation would kill them, or, at least, give them and their vehicles cancer.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30939 on: April 24, 2013, 05:38:37 pm »

* Skyrunner imagines nuclear reactions happening as part of metabolism
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
It'd be even better than you may be thinking, though.

We could hunt by simply standing near something and letting the radiation fry them. We'd be the most powerful military in the galaxy, because all we'd need to do is be near to an enemy, and the radiation would kill them, or, at least, give them and their vehicles cancer.
I think that they actually meant beta decay to produce positrons. Which seems like it would be a good way to not exist.
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« Reply #30940 on: April 24, 2013, 05:43:16 pm »

* Skyrunner imagines nuclear reactions happening as part of metabolism
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
It'd be even better than you may be thinking, though.

We could hunt by simply standing near something and letting the radiation fry them. We'd be the most powerful military in the galaxy, because all we'd need to do is be near to an enemy, and the radiation would kill them, or, at least, give them and their vehicles cancer.
I'm sorry Ms. The Tank Engine.  Thomas volunteered for this assignment and knew the risks, but I'm afraid he's paid the price.  He has inoperable boiler cancer.  He has 3 weeks to live.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #30941 on: April 24, 2013, 05:47:30 pm »

* Skyrunner imagines nuclear reactions happening as part of metabolism
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
It'd be even better than you may be thinking, though.

We could hunt by simply standing near something and letting the radiation fry them. We'd be the most powerful military in the galaxy, because all we'd need to do is be near to an enemy, and the radiation would kill them, or, at least, give them and their vehicles cancer.
I'm sorry Ms. The Tank Engine.  Thomas volunteered for this assignment and knew the risks, but I'm afraid he's paid the price.  He has inoperable boiler cancer.  He has 3 weeks to live.
His sacrifice will not be forgotten.  The rest of our train squadron was able to pull back with only minimal casualties after he warned us of the threat.  The scientist back at central are still investigating how he was actually able to get cancer, however. 
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« Reply #30942 on: April 24, 2013, 07:42:24 pm »

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« Reply #30943 on: April 24, 2013, 08:11:36 pm »

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« Reply #30944 on: April 24, 2013, 08:30:13 pm »

"Call in Toppam Hat"

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Trainformers?

I don't know what the hell that was, but somehow I was logged into Youtube(was checking Gmail earlier), so now that is forever stuck in my profile. FFFFFUUUUUU-
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