I worked with a lady several years ago, who claimed that she could only wear wind-up wrist watches, as battery powered ones would stop working after just a few weeks. She claimed also to have similar adverse effects on other electronics. She didn’t seem the irrational type, and I’ve been told by others, that they’ve heard of people like this. What gives?
Just to clarify, I’m concerned primarily with objects that one is in close contact with, as opposed to “putting out streetlights”.
We have done this one a number of times. A lot of seemingly rational people claim that they can kill watches just by being around them but there isn’t any good scientific explanation that would suggest how it could be true at all. You can’t search because you are a Guest but we can help find some older threads on this topic.
Anecdote: My dad could not wear the original LED digital watches back in the 70s. Something about his body (chemical, magnetic, electrical, midichlorians, I dunno) would drain them in a matter of days.
Yep. Those old LED watches chewed batteries up when the display was lit. So, they were designed so that you had to press a button to display the time. Og help you if you had your arms full and just HAD to know what time it was. Pretty useless as functional timepieces, but the geek factor was quite high. I owned a number of them back when they were still cool.
I’ve not had a lot of success with replaceable-battery-powered quartz watches, but I don’t think there’s anything magical going on, I put it down to:
-I wasn’t exactly buying the finest watches available to humanity, so that’s a point against their longevity right there
-Being fairly cheap, the seal probably wasn’t all that good after the first battery replacement, permitting the ingress of environmental factors such as moisture and dust
-I was working in a fairly active manual job, so they were exposed to an elevated level of physical shock and disturbance
-My manual job made me sweat - which can’t be great for a watch that happens to have a dicky seal.
I never managed to keep one going longer than about six months. I bought a Seiko self-winding(clockwork) one and it lasted ten years. I replaced it with a Citizen eco-drive and that lasted about ten years too - and it was the strap, not the watch, that broke.
And some of them had a poor design, where that button tended to collect dirt, and then it would not go off after you released the button, but stick in the on position. Even a fully-charged battery would only survive for a few hours in that situation.
Probably people who have a strong EMF are more prone to wanting to know what time it is. I’ll bet with all that energy they expend creating their field, they need to snack alot, too, so they get lots of crumbs on their hands and those crumbs migrate to their watches. Then when they wash their hands the moisture gets into the watch.
It must really suck to have such a strong magnetic field. Aside from all the macking on chicks with braces, of course.
Because he added a spam link into the quote from beowulff.
Edit: And by added a spam link, I mean it turned part of his text into a link to a relevant spam site, rather than adding extra text. I’m quite impressed and wonder if this is a sign that the singularity is upon us.
Obviously there was human ingenuity behind it, but it could still be a bot. Program it to search Google for the phrase you want to advertise, find all the message boards where it showed up, quote the relevant post with a generic “I agree with you” text, and put url tags around the key phrase. It’d be all the easier to program, given that so many boards nowadays are all vBulletin.
If there was a human at all after the programmer, it was just some third-world captcha farmer.