I’m wondering if anyone else has heard about this. I couldn’t find any other source to back any of it up, and frankly I’m not buying it.
I mean, I had a little bit of EMF study in college, and though I am far from an expert, something like this would seem to be rather difficult to pull off given the endless variables and oppurtunity for something to go wrong. Not to mention the shear strength of a field that would likely be required to overcome the inertia (which is proportional to velocity squared, IIRC) of a soccer ball kicked at a goal.
Also, due to spin on the ball, I don’t know of any soccer ball that will travel in a perfect parabola anyway.
Maybe someone who saw the game or knows any more about this could shed some light.
Well, I don’t know anything about EMF, either, but I would think that a magnetic field that was strong enough to be beamed from somewhere under the stands at a very long distance towards a rather small soccer ball that was wrapped in a small amount of thin wire, would also have been strong enough to fry every minicam in the stadium.
To heck with frying them…An ordinary MRI machine can levitate an 8 pound wrench, imagine what an electro magnet powerful enough to effect a soccer ball hundreds of feet away would do to something metalic a few FEET away…a pacemaker, for example. :eek:
“When they looked closer they worked out that the system was actually meant for creating a powerful electromagnetic current and field, the capacity of which varied from several variables that were coming from dozens of computers. Authorities are looking for one Wiley E. Coyote who is wanted for questioning.”
Hoopy, I don’t think Ranchoth was being “holier than thou”, but rather extrapolating on the crowd effects you mentioned. If an MRI can lift a wrench, the hypothetical device might lift a pacemaker … clear out of someone’s chest*. “Pleasant dreams” was sarcastic (because of the hypothetical nightmarish consequences), but the sarcasm wasn’t aimed at you.
mssmith, you may laugh now, but ACME Inc. is slated to be FIFA’s official sports equipment provider for the 2006 World Cup.
[sub]*I’m actually unsure as to whether or not this would happen. Due to the body’s high water content, the persons body itself may also be lifted, or pushed, or pulled, in such an intense magnetic field (I’ve seen a guy levitate a frog on the discovery channel the same way) and thus not be seperated from the pacemaker. Airborne spectators might also be an interesting mental image, though.[/sub]
Hoopy, I don’t think Ranchoth was being “holier than thou”, but rather extrapolating on the crowd effects you mentioned. If an MRI can lift a wrench, the hypothetical device might lift a pacemaker … clear out of someone’s chest*. “Pleasant dreams” was sarcastic (because of the hypothetical nightmarish consequences), but the sarcasm wasn’t aimed at you.
mssmith, you may laugh now, but ACME Inc. is slated to be FIFA’s official sports equipment provider for the 2006 World Cup.
[sub]*I’m actually unsure as to whether or not this would happen. Due to the body’s high water content, the persons body itself may also be lifted, or pushed, or pulled, in such an intense magnetic field (I’ve seen a guy levitate a frog on the discovery channel the same way) and thus not be seperated from the pacemaker. Airborne spectators might also be an interesting mental image, though.[/sub]
Maybe because when one of them has a headache, the other one might not?
And as long as I’m here, I’d like to thank Ranchoth for the compelling mental imagery of a pacemaker being lifted out of Joe Soccerfan’s chest by a magnetic ray gun aimed at a soccer ball during the World Cup.
In other words—“Ewwwww…”
it’s a ridley scott moment
no, i think it’s more a david cronenberg moment
no, it’s actually austin powers on angel dust
Ummm, DDG when women tell you that they have a headache in their vagina, I think maybe they’re just trying to avoid having sex with you. Sorry, but somebody had to tell you.
For all the good reasons stated through this thread, the story is complete nonsense. It’s even such over-the-top nonsense that it doesn’t make an amusing tabloid story.
I only wonder whether there actually were some hackers that made up the story, or if Pravdca invented the hackers also. Probably the latter.
I demand photographic evidence to either prove or disprove this! If Ms. Kournikova does indeed have two vaginas, it would be a crime against humanity to deny the medical establishment the opportunity of such a wonderful and rare thing. We must have pictures, I say!
Well, OK then, sorry about that DDG. In that case let me put it this way: When you tell him that you have a headache in your vagina, he may politely give up, but actually, he didn’t believe you. Sorry, but someone had to tell you.
