12-05-2005, 11:14
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Human electrical fields
Maybe one of you docs can field this one.
Is it possible for the human body to generate an electrical field strong enough to interupt or cause to malfunction a mouse or any other thing associated with a PC? I've witnessed that some people can't wear watches because of this, (supposedly).
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12-05-2005, 12:01
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It's highly unlikely that a person would have a self-generated electrical field greatly different from the general population. It IS possible that a person could accumulate greater than normal amounts of static electricity due to the shoes they wear, flooring they walk on, low humidity, and how often they discharge normally accumulated static electricity.
If you are consistantly encountering unexplained computer damage, try using an electrostatic grounding mat at your computer station.
Handling certain material like plastics without being grounded, dragging your feet on carpet, removing laundry from the dryer, or certain other activities, can generate enough static to arc an inch or two, and cause considerable discomfort. I've seen the hoist cable on a helo arc about a foot as it discharged all the static generated from the main rotor cutting through the air.
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12-05-2005, 16:10
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If they are, I don't want to be on the demo range with them. 
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12-05-2005, 20:01
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Cant tell weither or not people having different electrical fields are true, though im sure it would be possible to google to see if theres a study in it.
One of my friends seems to work as an example that there might be something about it though.
Its at a point where he no longer attempts to install new hardware by himself, since he's fried everything he's touched so far(and yeah, been next to him to see if he fucked it up a couple of times, nothing that suggests he did).
Maybe his luck just sucks =)
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12-05-2005, 22:07
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It's highly unlikely that a person would have a self-generated electrical field greatly different from the general population.
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What about this guy? 
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12-05-2005, 22:12
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What about this guy?
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That would be "Lightning" from John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China"
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12-05-2005, 22:23
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That would be "Lightning" from John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China"
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Yeah buddy!
I mean, you are correct TR, Sir. 
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12-05-2005, 22:37
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Excellent movie philosophy, and one-liners for Kurt.
"Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, "Give me your best shot. I can take it."
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12-06-2005, 08:59
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Kyo,
I've never heard of humans generating enough electricity to harm electric equipment but if you grab the right thing you can conduct enough electricity to ruin lots of stuff.
While on the topic...
Once we talked the neighbor kid into urinating on an electric fence. We told him if he peed fast enough he wouldn't get shocked. He must not have peed fast enough.
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12-06-2005, 09:31
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I know this will sound like BS, but I know a woman who, when she is having her period, can walk by electrical devices and mess them up in various ways: copy machines spontaneously spit out paper, ECGs lock up and require a reboot, DNA sequencers start spitting out infinite ATGC...ATGC... sequences.
Weird. REALLY weird.
There are a lot of very skeptical scientists who work with her who will scream "NO NO NO GET OUT!" if she approaches during a critical sequencing run.
No one has suggested she leave -- she's brilliant. And smokin' hot.
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12-06-2005, 11:01
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Originally Posted by mugwump
I know this will sound like BS, but I know a woman who, when she is having her period, can walk by electrical devices and mess them up in various ways: copy machines spontaneously spit out paper, ECGs lock up and require a reboot, DNA sequencers start spitting out infinite ATGC...ATGC... sequences.
Weird. REALLY weird.
There are a lot of very skeptical scientists who work with her who will scream "NO NO NO GET OUT!" if she approaches during a critical sequencing run.
No one has suggested she leave -- she's brilliant. And smokin' hot.
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12-06-2005, 11:20
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Hmmm. I'm just wondering how you made the correlation between the strange electrical activity and the other.
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12-06-2005, 11:48
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Hmmm. I'm just wondering how you made the correlation between the strange electrical activity and the other.
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I just curious how he knows what the hottie's cycle is.
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12-06-2005, 12:01
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Hmmm. I'm just wondering how you made the correlation between the strange electrical activity and the other.
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I didn't. She did. It's been happening since she was 12.
She couldn't use an analog cell phone when menstruating. New digital phones work fine. She has a red felt 'M' in her office that someone only half-jokingly gave to her with a request to wear it on 'those days.'
She's a walking encyclopedia of menstrual taboos, it's something of a hobby with her. Do you know that, into the early 20th century, mensturating women were not allowed in bakeries because it was thought it would make the bread fall? That the origin of walking under a ladder = bad luck is based upon a menstrual taboo? Or that to this day menstruating women aren't allowed in French perfumeries? How would anyone know, you ask? According to her, a prime criterion for a menstrual taboo is that it is self-imposed; women do not violate it because they buy into it.
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12-06-2005, 12:13
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...just curious how he knows what the hottie's cycle is.
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I wish...she's young enough to be my daughter. And before the young bucks chime in, yes it matters. I have a swimming pool, and a hottie daughter, who has hottie friends, who wear teenie bikinis. I had to perform some weird zen-kung fu-mind-trick thingie (too technical?) and mentally turn them all into daughters or else turn into a "funny father" that all the girls shrink from.
It's spoiled me for women half my age. Thankfully there are many, many MEN around.
Last edited by The Reaper; 12-06-2005 at 20:34.
Reason: Keep terms/acronyms clean here, and to show how it could be worse!
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