ohh absolutely, and i told people that often, i figured that as a kid. However, i put out ones that DONT regularly go out, And at one point, i worked at a grocery store with their parking lot full. i could basically put out different lights at will by waving and thinking at them. How it might work, no clue. Not enough data for me to make a theory.
as far as a cd player, static electricity can definatley goof up the lasers, the motors, and the actual control buttons. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM, OrionWorks<[email protected]> wrote: > From Leak: > > ... > >> But, the sodium vapor lamp bit is still a great party trick. in >> puberty i had such excellent control i could point at lights nearby >> and put out specific ones. (not sure what causes it, but apparently >> overloads of voltage in such lamps cause breakers to pop then come >> back on when the light cools. the theory was that the human body's >> normal electrical field, if it matched up just right, could cause it. >> who knows why. But a couple years ago, i lived at a house that had a >> few sodiums still on the street behind it. i would walk that street >> and then around and in, about a block out of the way. my roomate knew >> when i was a few minutes from home, because the backyard got dark as >> the lamp went out as i walked under it every day. ) > > Regarding the weird phenomenon of sodium vapor lights going out in > one's presence, I noticed a similar phenomenon happen to me when I > drove past a certain street lamp in my neighborhood. For a while I > wondered what it was I might be doing, or what it might be about me > personally, my physiology, or my fantasized psychic abilities that > made the lamp flicker out. I pondered this mystery, off and on, for > quite a spell. > > One evening I decided to watch one of these intermittent sodium vapor > lights that I felt I was influencing. I eventually discovered that the > damned light had a tendency to go out on a regular basis regardless of > whether I was passing by it or not. I had just assumed that I must > somehow be responsible for the light going out because the light was > in the process of performing one of its numerous off cycles, > serendipitously around the time I was driving past it. > > On another matter, back in the 1980s, I had a first generation CD > player that would act up whenever I passed my hand near the front > control panel. I assumed I was carrying some kind of a static charge > that might be interfering with some of the delicate electronics. > Unfortunately, I never was able to confirm my suspicion. I tried > everything I could think of to remove all static charge from my body. > Didn't seem to matter. The CD player would still act up. Happened in > the middle of a humid summer as well. > > Anyone know what might cause a flaky CD player to act up by a simple > wave of the hand? > > ...or can I fantasize myself as a latent Uri Geller in training! >8-0 > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
