Whats is your secret talent?

[Theben]

Originally posted by b etor
bj's.

Biology journals?

[b etor]

yes.

[LotC]

With minimal preparation (no hidden electrical devices) I can arc electricity between my fingers and from my hands to metal objects. I've made it jump an air gap of up to a foot.

I can also feel magnetic fields from a distance and determine polarity. This includes acting like a human compass. I also tend to permanently magnetize metal objects.

[b etor]

are you serious!?

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Spec
Really? You can plan where the ball will go? Wow, I'd love to see that.

Spec.

I wasted a lot of time in college acquiring my pinball skills. (This was in the '70s -- the golden age of analog pinball.) Played in a bunch of tournaments; always made the finals. Used to drink for free all the time, schooling the drunk and unskilled in frat bars. In a good month, I could pay my rent hustling pinball.

[Krill]

I doubt it, short of wiring himself up to the national grid.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Spec
I do it all the time...I can even make 2 car sounds at the sametime.

I am doing it while writting this post.

Spec.

Well fine. I guess I'm not special then. My schoolteachers lied to me.

[Nostromo]

LotC thinks he is...

[LotC]

I am serious; it wouldn't be a very funny joke now would it :P The amount of current is quite low, although when it's at its strongest and my arm are spread 3 feet or so (once current is established it can travel a few feet) I do get shortness of breath and heart flutters, which are the signs of current passing through the heart. I try to keep that to a minimum

As for the magnetic aspect, it's not unheard of in nature. That's how salmon and sea turtles navigate to their breeding grounds. I read an article a while back on Caltech researchers finding a small piece of magnetite in humans that was naturally deposited by bacteria. It sits between your eyes behind the nose bone. Strangely, I have always, since an early teen, been able to concentrate on this area and produce a feeling of intense pressure, to the point of discomfort.

If you believe this, it may seem really cool and something you'd like to be able to do. It's not really; it is rather isolating , since most people would not believe it if told about it and think you're some kind of crackpot. It has also cost me in the neighbourhood of $300, for one cell phone and one motherboard, both of which died quick deaths from electrical shock damage. So far I have not profited from this, much to my chagrin.

[LotC]

Originally posted by Nostromo
LotC thinks he is...

Heh, better than thinking I'm Superman, no?

[snoopy369]

You know you can shave, right?

[b etor]

LotC, you MUST prove this to me

[LotC]

Originally posted by b etor
LotC, you MUST prove this to me

That is in the works. Unfortunately, with the camera equipment I have it is fiendishly difficult to record due to the extremely low contrast of the electrical discharge. It's thinner than a human hair most of the time and quite faint. Once I get proper test equipment, like a multimeter, and can borrow a decent dSLR there will be a Youtube video.

[Jon Miller]

I could imagine some real scientists being interested also.

JM

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Whats is your secret talent?

Originally posted by Spec
Everyone has one.

Not true.