Nah Harmonia

The sites just know it's you

;-)

Technomancer heh, have fun at the bottom of the thread, bro.


I've never noticed this. As a matter of fact, I suppose I've been fortunate in only dealing with motion sensitive lights that come on in all hours when you are walking/driving.

Harmonia I'm sure you know I was kidding.

XOXO

SG

Farked already????

Is the site farked for many of you? Want me to post the text?

Ghettoceleb?

Here ya go. Please don't get after me for length. I'm saving many from pop ups:)

A reader writes:

Around five years ago, I have noticed that at times while I am driving down the road at night a street light will go out as I am passing below it. It happens frequently and seems to be happening more.
It has been giving me the creeps. If it happened only once or on very rare occasions, I don't think I would have given it a thought. However, it happens about once or twice a week. Could it be some electronic thing or could it be something less explainable?

The phenomenon is known as street lamp interference, or SLI, and it possibly is a psychic event that is just beginning to be recognized and studied. Like most phenomena of this type, the evidence is almost exclusively anecdotal. I have received several stories like the one above from readers.

Typically, a person who has this effect on streetlights - also known as a SLIder - finds that the light switches on or off when he or she walks or drives beneath it. Obviously, this could happen occasionally by chance with a faulty streetlight (you've probably noticed that it's happened to you once in a while), but SLIders claim that it happens to them on a regular basis. It doesn't happen every time with every streetlight, but it occurs often enough to make these people suspect that something unusual is going on.

Very often, SLIders also report that they tend to have an odd effect on other electronic devices. In letters I've received, these people claim such effects as:

Appliances such as lamps and TVs go on and off without being touched.
Lightbulbs constantly blow when the SLIder tries to turn them off or on.
Volume levels change on TVs, radios, and CD players.
Watches stop working.
Children's electronic toys start by themselves when the SLIder is present.
Credit cards and other magnetically encoded cards are damaged or erased when in their possession.
What's the Cause?
Any attempt to pinpoint a cause for SLI at this point would be mere speculation without a thorough scientific investigation. The problem with such investigations, as with many forms of psychic phenomena, is that they are very difficult to reproduce in a laboratory. They seem to happen spontaneously without the deliberate intention of the SLIder. In fact, the SLIder, according to some informal tests, are usually unable to create the effect on demand.

A reasonable speculation for the effect, if it is a real one, might have something to do with the electronic impulses of the brain. All of our thoughts and movements are the result of electrical impulses that the brain generates. At present it is known that these measurable impulses only have an effect within an individual's body, but is it possible that they could have an effect outside the body - a kind of remote control?

About.com Poll
What do you think of SLI?

It's a genuine psychic phenomenon.
It's just a coincidence; nothing supernatural.
Not sure.



Current Results

Ongoing research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab is suggesting that the subconscious can indeed affect electronic devices. Subjects are able to influence the random generations of a computer far more than would occur merely by chance. This research - and research being conducted at other laboratories around the world - are beginning to reveal, in scientific terms, the reality of such psychic phenomena as ESP, telekinesis and soon, perhaps, SLI.

Although the SLI effect is not a conscious one, some SLIders report that when it does occur, they often are in an extreme emotional state. A state of anger or stress is often cited as the "cause." SLIder Debbie Wolf, a British barmaid, told CNN, "When it happens is when I'm stressed about something. Not really manically stressed, just when I'm really mulching something over, really chewing something over in my head, and then it happens."

Could it all be just coincidence, however? David Barlow, a graduate student of physics and astrophysics, suspects that the phenomenon might be attributed to people seeing patterns in "random noise." "It is unlikely that a light will turn itself on when you walk past it," he says, "so it is a shock when it happens. If this should happen a few times consecutively, then it appears some mechanism is at work."

Harmonia my work is the same way about installations. they won't even allow ad-aware, which would free up our computers so so so much.
I guess they are afraid of some of the guys installing...what I can't imagine, as they need to be walked through checking their e-mail.

*sigh*

Glad to help Ghettoceleb:)

Harmonia

I'm so glad I am not alone. If I could buy you a beer I would.

*virtual beer Cheers*

Heh, SLIders. Sounds like a dumb show that Fox might air.

This happens to everyone. This happened to me on the way to work this morning. My mind wasn't even at a state of alertness capable of not spilling my coffee, let alone turn off street lamps.

Debaser_: I have the same problem with 12:34.

This is 6 degrees of fark!

A slider could be Jerry O'Connell..who stars in Sliders.

He was also in "Stand By Me" which also starred...Wil Wheaton

Oh, that's only 2 degrees.

Never mind. Nothing to see here.

But look down, I bet Technomancer is still there. hehehehehe

or why women SAY one thing, but mean another?

There is not enough money in the free world to fund that research test, so just hush you.

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