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Post by takewithfood on Jan 4, 2011 12:51:23 GMT -5
Thank you! And you may! Now, if only this were available somewhere near me.. ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 4, 2011 12:57:03 GMT -5
Faygo will let you order cases of their stuff (diet grape included). Just a little plug for my hometown!
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Post by raynorn on Jan 4, 2011 13:10:39 GMT -5
It seems goofy, and will continue to do so until she has an awesome idea. It is crazy folk like this that come up with ideas like pacemakers and artificial retnas.
By all means miss keep up the experiment.
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Post by malice on Jan 4, 2011 15:03:54 GMT -5
Yuck. The reason I'd never do something like this is that by the time your body heals they've already built a better implant. Assuming technology plateaued and crap like this became practical and safe, I still don't like violating my body. I don't even like doing it to fictional characters. Also LOL at her trying to detect magnetic north. Go outside you crazy bint. You can tell north south east and west as well as what time it is. Have I done crazy things to improve my skills set? Yes. I used to do body hardening techniques (and they work!) until I found out that there is a practical downside. Body hardening stuff? Like rolling iron bars on your shins? What are the practical downsides?
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 4, 2011 16:06:40 GMT -5
Body hardening stuff? Like rolling iron bars on your shins? What are the practical downsides? That's one of the techniques I used, yes. As well as striking hard, immovable objects (cement poles, etc) with fists, arms, feet, legs, etc. It turns out that while these methods are effective for making your bones harder, they also contribute to various bone problems, including osteoporosis. Apparently, your bones just aren't meant to be that dense. Also, I don't know if anyone here has experienced bone spurs... but they SUCK.
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Post by Kaimontfendo on Jan 12, 2011 23:29:17 GMT -5
Cool! Fascinating. Not something I'd attempt, but still... very interesting indeed.
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Post by Ushima911 on Jan 13, 2011 0:15:38 GMT -5
Also LOL at her trying to detect magnetic north. Go outside you crazy bint. You can tell north south east and west as well as what time it is. Don't men have a magnetic (something) in their nose that allows them to know where north is? If not, then Leeksoup has some 'splainin to do...lol
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 13, 2011 6:30:22 GMT -5
Also LOL at her trying to detect magnetic north. Go outside you crazy bint. You can tell north south east and west as well as what time it is. Don't men have a magnetic (something) in their nose that allows them to know where north is? If not, then Leeksoup has some 'splainin to do...lol Some men might. I sure as heck don't. I have the worst sense of direction imaginable.
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Post by raynorn on Jan 13, 2011 7:51:57 GMT -5
Also LOL at her trying to detect magnetic north. Go outside you crazy bint. You can tell north south east and west as well as what time it is. Don't men have a magnetic (something) in their nose that allows them to know where north is? If not, then Leeksoup has some 'splainin to do...lol I think he was alluding to the position of the sun/moon/stars.
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Post by Manah on Jan 13, 2011 9:13:05 GMT -5
Don't men have a magnetic (something) in their nose that allows them to know where north is? If not, then Leeksoup has some 'splainin to do...lol Some men might. I sure as heck don't. I have the worst sense of direction imaginable. HA!!!! As in, "no way, pal" kind of "Ha". Mine's worse, I'm almost sure. I was once lost... on the very street I had been living on... for the last four years prior said incident... just because I took a turn I never did before. IN MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD (I know I just said "on the very street I..." etc, I just want to insist on that point). Like, 30 seconds away from my home. Beat that! And if you dismiss it with "that's not a lack of sense of direction, it's just being plain stupid"... I'll disagree. In my case, it's actually both. lol.
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Post by Ushima911 on Jan 13, 2011 10:48:50 GMT -5
Don't men have a magnetic (something) in their nose that allows them to know where north is? If not, then Leeksoup has some 'splainin to do...lol I think he was alluding to the position of the sun/moon/stars. Well he said if you go outside, and point your nose towards north, you can feel a tiny "tug" on your nose. I really should have him explain this instead of me..haha ill shoot him a text later after work.
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 13, 2011 11:24:23 GMT -5
Again, maybe HE can feel a tug on his nose, but that's by no means a standard thing for all males. I can't say as I've heard of it before (in humans), so I'd say it's not even all that common. On the other hand, I could be wrong.
I believe there are some animals that have genuinely magnetic senses, in one form or another. Owls, maybe? The Owls of Gahool did, anyway!
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 13, 2011 12:38:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure humans lack a significant ability to sense magnetic fields, metal deposits in our skulls or not. It certainly wouldn't manifest as a "tug" on your nose. That's silly.
Maybe we had ancestors who used magnetoception to navigate, and some individuals have some kind of freaky throwback ability, but even that seems doubtful. Too bad, it would be handy. For the rest of us, there's GPS. ^__^
~TWF
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Post by slimgoodbody on Jan 18, 2011 3:01:52 GMT -5
So my initial reaction was that this is pretty friggin awesome, but to be fair, I'm in the middle of reading Neuromancer for the first time. It's probably coloring my outlook a teensy bit. Also, hello everybody! I have a computer again!
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