Influencing electrical devices ?

[Andre]

Hi group.

This may sound like a strange question, but has anyone here ever
exhibited or witnessed the ability to affect equipment by thought
power ?

I'm pretty sure that it isn't showing up under normal conditions
(Windows crashes often enough anyway) but I did notice that when i was
trying to do anything really important a few years back , the level of
system crashes went up . (monitors breaking down, that kind of thing)
.. We are talking hardware failures here, not software .

Any ideas ?

-A

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Hi group.

This may sound like a strange question, but has anyone here ever
exhibited or witnessed the ability to affect equipment by thought
power ?

Not personally, though your experience below sounds
painfully familiar...

I'm pretty sure that it isn't showing up under normal conditions
(Windows crashes often enough anyway) but I did notice that when i was
trying to do anything really important a few years back , the level of
system crashes went up . (monitors breaking down, that kind of thing)
. We are talking hardware failures here, not software .

Any ideas ?

Well, Murphy's Law comes to mind. Maybe Murphy's just the
personalization of the Dark side of the Force. ;>)

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[DarkMatter]

Sorry. The paranormal is out of my realm

Everything about this world we live in is outside your realm. You
are an E-1 grade dipshit.

although I briefly worked on a
Kirlian photography project once,

Hahahahah... a "project"? You sure it wasn't just a lame
experiment?

but I have noticed certain people to have
deleterious effects on some hardware at some times.
Bwuhahahahahaahhahaha...

I don't know if it's
them, the phase of the moon, or just plain bad karma.

That is because you possess so much of the latter.

Why don't you ask
DarkMatter, our resident expert on strange, dysfunctional behavior.

Yes. That is why I pointed YOU out to the group as being
dysfunctional. You obviously are. You couldn't defend your bullshit
accusation that I forge my headers, nor could you defend your bullshit
claim that DC doesn't cause heart fibrillation. That definitely
qualifies you as totally dysfunctional.

 

[DarkMatter]

Oh no! You've just given Dark Matter another opportunity to throw one of his
temper tantrums about introducing electric currents into the human body

Sounds to me like your lame, retarded ass was a victim of such brain
stimulus. Except that there are no brains up there, and the stimulus
merely made you even more retarded.

 

[Wim Ton]

I'm pretty sure that it isn't showing up under normal conditions

(Windows crashes often enough anyway) but I did notice that when i was
trying to do anything really important a few years back , the level of
system crashes went up . (monitors breaking down, that kind of thing)
. We are talking hardware failures here, not software .

An other explanation may be, that the failure rate is the same, but you will
remember it better if the failure occured at an awkward moment.

Wim

 

[Andre]

The question really isn't that strange at all. I've noticed the
effects you describe several times, and I have no explanation for them
given the particulars of any one situation.

Some examples: A misbehaving computer, one that's known to have a
history of malfunctions, mysteriously starts working perfectly for as
long as I'm in the room. The same thing has happened to a close friend
of mine.

Yup, seen that one .

Explanation :- adjusting local RF fields so that a marginal logic gate
someplace is temporarily biased so that it works ? This is the kind of
thing that happens with mobile phones as well (some phones just will
not reliably connect to the network if a certain person is using them)
..

In another case, I left on a week's vacation not long ago. The
same day I was out the door, my wife's computer, which had been working
just fine, suddenly throws an electronic fit. Same thing for my dial-in
terminal server. I was unable to retrieve much of my E-mail from the
road.

My own experiences have not been limited to computer equipment.
I've had test gear throw a hissy-fit while I'm working with it, only to
(apparently) fix itself with no further malfunctions if I just set it
aside for a while.

e.g. my scope (which worked fine when the owner demonstrated it, only
to break down when i went to use it)

I've trouble-shot for all the usual issues -- loose or dirty
connections, bad power, errors in my setup, etc. -- and have never been
able to find anything conclusive.

Static ?

I will say this much. Our brains and nervous systems work on
electricity. So does our technology. Early experiments have shown that
direct electrical stimulation of parts of the brain, via electrodes,
produces all kinds of interesting behavior.

Given all that, the idea that one could affect the other, without
the benefit of wiring and intervening circuitry, does not seem all that
far-fetched to me, though darned if I've found any hard proof of it.

Let me know if you find a circuit that can reliably be influenced by
thought power, I'd be very interested

-A

 

[Andre]

Years ago I maintained a CATV headend, along with other distribution
equipment. The system manager could walk into the headend, and
equipment would quit working. I would run him out and everything would
start working again. He was convinced I was trying to pull a trick on
him, till he caught me busy at my bench in another room and slipped in
to the locked room, and a full rack of satellite receivers failed, one
right after another. After that, he stayed away from the equipment.

I'd say that this guy has a genuine ability . Someone should scan him
, see if he has an unusually strong electrostatic effect or similar .

Many years ago I read about a case of a Russian lady who could
actually move objects with mind power . The scan picked up that she
had an unusually strong bio-electric field (much higher than normal) .

He seemed to have the same effect on a lot of people. He would walk
into a room and people would leave, as fast as they could.

LOL This happens to me also (people walk out of a room as I walk
in)

 

[DarkMatter]

LOL This happens to me also (people walk out of a room as I walk
in)

Take a shower.

 

[Robert Monsen]

The question really isn't that strange at all. I've noticed the
effects you describe several times, and I have no explanation for them
given the particulars of any one situation.

Some examples: A misbehaving computer, one that's known to have a
history of malfunctions, mysteriously starts working perfectly for as
long as I'm in the room. The same thing has happened to a close friend
of mine.

Hmm, seems like you could get a job as an employment councellor... or a
manager. Is your friend still working?

(sorry)

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Years ago I maintained a CATV headend, along with other distribution
equipment. The system manager could walk into the headend, and
equipment would quit working. I would run him out and everything would
start working again. He was convinced I was trying to pull a trick on
him, till he caught me busy at my bench in another room and slipped in
to the locked room, and a full rack of satellite receivers failed, one
right after another. After that, he stayed away from the equipment.

Who was the theoretical physicist that could crash an
experimental setup just by getting near it?

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[DarkMatter]

Who was the theoretical physicist that could crash an
experimental setup just by getting near it?

Mark L. Fergerson

This entire thread is a bunch of brownian motion. :]

Did anyone ever consider that a person might dress such that their ES
field is very high?

People can walk around charged up to several hundred volts. More
even. There are personnel in larger electronic industry firms that
are specifically charged with the duty of walking around with an ESD
field meter device, checking people, and other items which can build,
and store an ES field. I doubt that it is much else.

 

[Fred Abse]

Who was the theoretical physicist that could crash an experimental setup
just by getting near it?

Just about every one I've met, I think

 

[Andre]

An other explanation may be, that the failure rate is the same, but you will
remember it better if the failure occured at an awkward moment.

Selective memory theory . Yeah, could be .

-A

 

[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun]

[snip]

Let me know if you find a circuit that can reliably be influenced by
thought power, I'd be very interested

They have some way of sensing an amputee's nerve pulses, so even tho
there is no arm, the amputee can think about raising his arm, and the
prosthesis will be activated. Of course this requires something in
contact with the amputee.

-A

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[Andre]

Who was the theoretical physicist that could crash an
experimental setup just by getting near it?

Some guy named Murphy ?

-A

 

[Michael Gray]

Many years ago I read about a case of a Russian lady who could
actually move objects with mind power . The scan picked up that she
had an unusually strong bio-electric field (much higher than normal) .

:
What utter B.S!

 

[Michael Gray]

Yes, you are correct.
My poor editing may have seemed to attribute that quote to you,
instead of Andre.
I apologise unreservedly for a slip of the scissors.

 

[Andre]

:
What utter B.S!

Its been documented. Actually several cases TTBOMK .


http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031703a.htm

The "unusually strong field" part was from a book called "Supernature"
I read a while back . IIRC there was also a magnetic field present
that was a lot stronger than "normal" emanating from the back of the
head .

-A

 

[R. Steve Walz]

Its been documented. Actually several cases TTBOMK .

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031703a.htm

The "unusually strong field" part was from a book called "Supernature"
I read a while back . IIRC there was also a magnetic field present
that was a lot stronger than "normal" emanating from the back of the
head .

-A

----------------
Andre, you should know better than this kind of trash. The Russians
lied to bolster their formidability in the Cold War because they
couldn't keep up with our nuclear stockpile.

-Steve:

 

[Andre]

Interesting analysis .
Do you have any evidence of this ? Please reply via Email.

-A