On August 25 2009 18:12 nttea wrote: recognize phone numbers from the buttons pressed eh.. i think i could do that if i just learned which sound is which number, cause theyre all obviously different? or is it harder than it seems?
The phone number sound is 2 sounds on top of each other. Its like the row from 1 to 3 has a sound and the row from 1 to like 7 has one. So then you take like number 5. It takes the 2x2 sound or something. I dont know if i wrote it so that one cant understand it, but it is very hard.
+ you need some uber hearing to be able to hear the sound any more far than ear directly near the speaker
It was kind of disturbing to be honest. I know he comes from a poor and abusive background but to harass innocent people like he did was ridiculous.
As far as super human powers go though, I was listening to my local radio station once on the topic and they had callers talk about it. Some guy called in and told the station that he dropped like a mini-fridge on his foot (350lbs or something?) and he managed to somehow lift it off and push it aside from all the uber testosterone adrenaline he got from the fact that a mini-fridge dropped on his damn foot.
On August 25 2009 20:22 starfries wrote: a lot of Asians have perfect pitch. No joke.
i read somewhere that an average of 90% of the students in music conservatories in china possess perfect pitch, compared to 10% in the usa or some other western country the article also said it prbly had something to do with the linguistics of mandarin and how the language helped develop pitch identification in it's speakers
oh yeah, i think perfect pitch can also be trained into ppl, but its much much harder than relative pitch, which is pretty hard itself
also i'd imagine that blind ppl should naturally possess stronger senses of hearing, so a blind guy being able to know the tones of a phone really isn't that amazing imo
blind ppl can prbly hear things in the voices of other ppl and their own voices that normal ppl cannot detect, which i'd imagine would also help when replicating the voices of others...
probably just lazy westerners that study music for fun while the chinese in this case has alot more pressure and study alot harder and achieve this perfect pitch.
On August 25 2009 21:19 Machine leg wrote: probably just lazy westerners that study music for fun while the chinese in this case has alot more pressure and study alot harder and achieve this perfect pitch.
i think it's cause the chinese has a much larger pool to choose from = higher top talent.
On August 25 2009 21:19 Machine leg wrote: probably just lazy westerners that study music for fun while the chinese in this case has alot more pressure and study alot harder and achieve this perfect pitch.
I remember watching a very old documentary on YouTube, and it had this chinese guy in his 50's or so, and he practises electrical therapy on patients... The catch here is, that he doesn't use any technological equipment, but his fingers. He can generate small shocks on the tip of his fingers, and then points with his fingers on the patient. He also did it on the documentary crew because they were skeptical at first. In the middle of the documentary or so, he took a newspaper, crumbled it up, and set it on fire WITH HIS BARE HANDS - I was like, "wtf, that is so cool!" He also pushed a chopstick through a thick wooden table. After that, there were some splinters that hurt some people nearby and the next night he had a dream in which his master told him to stop showing his skills to the crew. Next day he asked the crew to leave.
This means that it's possible that any human can do this, but the downside is you probably need dozens of years of meditation and good spirit.
On August 25 2009 21:27 Ecorin wrote: I remember watching a very old documentary on YouTube, and it had this chinese guy in his 50's or so, and he practises electrical therapy on patients... The catch here is, that he doesn't use any technological equipment, but his fingers. He can generate small shocks on the tip of his fingers, and then points with his fingers on the patient. He also did it on the documentary crew because they were skeptical at first. In the middle of the documentary or so, he took a newspaper, crumbled it up, and set it on fire WITH HIS BARE HANDS - I was like, "wtf, that is so cool!" He also pushed a chopstick through a thick wooden table. After that, there were some splinters that hurt some people nearby and the next night he had a dream in which his master told him to stop showing his skills to the crew. Next day he asked the crew to leave.
This means that it's possible that any human can do this, but the downside is you probably need dozens of years of meditation and good spirit.
On August 25 2009 21:27 Ecorin wrote: I remember watching a very old documentary on YouTube, and it had this chinese guy in his 50's or so, and he practises electrical therapy on patients... The catch here is, that he doesn't use any technological equipment, but his fingers. He can generate small shocks on the tip of his fingers, and then points with his fingers on the patient. He also did it on the documentary crew because they were skeptical at first. In the middle of the documentary or so, he took a newspaper, crumbled it up, and set it on fire WITH HIS BARE HANDS - I was like, "wtf, that is so cool!" He also pushed a chopstick through a thick wooden table. After that, there were some splinters that hurt some people nearby and the next night he had a dream in which his master told him to stop showing his skills to the crew. Next day he asked the crew to leave.
This means that it's possible that any human can do this, but the downside is you probably need dozens of years of meditation and good spirit.
SOMEONE FIND THIS. We must overanalyze the video and declare it fake! Or else, it stays legendary genuine.
I did searching and found a clip of the documentary, it's called "The Ring Of Fire" Turns out it's actually an indonesian who practises Taoism, meditates every day, does yoga etc. And it's controlling the chi energy of one, anyone can do it, but 18 years of daily meditation is a pretty big thing to pay for it.
The only way you will probably believe it, is when you get sick in your old age and spend money to go search for qigong masters or yogi masters, who use alternative medicine to cure you.
On August 25 2009 21:19 Machine leg wrote: probably just lazy westerners that study music for fun while the chinese in this case has alot more pressure and study alot harder and achieve this perfect pitch.
you're born with it, you cant practice to get a photograpic memory or be naturally ambidexterious
there are people who can do head multiplication far greater than most calculators, such unique abilities cannot be achieved by practice, only genes
On August 25 2009 21:57 Ecorin wrote: I did searching and found a clip of the documentary, it's called "The Ring Of Fire" Turns out it's actually an indonesian who practises Taoism, meditates every day, does yoga etc. And it's controlling the chi energy of one, anyone can do it, but 18 years of daily meditation is a pretty big thing to pay for it.
i have overwhelming deja vu (almost like seeing into the future except I can't always remember what happens). If I happen to speak about what I dream about, then it typically doesn't come true. Sometimes I will do something and honestly feel like I was there doing whatever the activity was at a previous time. Typically these dreams could have occurred between 1 and 12 months prior to the activity..
I am going to try and write stuff down to see if this is accurate
On August 25 2009 21:19 Machine leg wrote: probably just lazy westerners that study music for fun while the chinese in this case has alot more pressure and study alot harder and achieve this perfect pitch.
you're born with it, you cant practice to get a photograpic memory or be naturally ambidexterious
there are people who can do head multiplication far greater than most calculators, such unique abilities cannot be achieved by practice, only genes
Not true. The calculations can be trained from an early age using Japanese kids and abacuses. I saw a tv programme a British savant guy who was pretty much normal and people were suspicious he'd just learned his calculating ability but he proved otherwise. He was no better at sums than the crazy Japanese kids but he just imagined each number as a shape and they converged into a new shape which gave him the answer. They made him make a load of numbers with plasticine and then he could replicate them at will later, proving he wasn't bullshitting.
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