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TRUE or FALSE?.......Part 4

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      CommentAuthorBregje
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Sorry for keeping you waiting, I should have said it was going to be thursday probably!

    Anyway, I'm afraid I didn't put the question clear enough and the way I put it the answer is not 100% TRUE or FALSE. Also, Heero's thinking about feeling wind on the eyes is good but it's not included in my answer at all. Anyway, if my question had been:

    'To know if the eye is open visual information is more important to the brain than the feeling'

    then the answer is TRUE

    Here's the explanation and an experiment you can do if you have a couple of minutes left:
    - go to a dark room somewhere (bathroom without windows or something), turn of the light and get used to the dark for about 5 minutes. After a couple of minutes you can see some things you couldn't see at first
    - now close your right eye and cover it with your right hand
    - turn the light on and so that the left eye gets used to the light for one minute
    - turn the light of again
    - if you remove your right hand and open your right eye, you can still see in the dark with that eye
    - the left eye can't see a thing. But what's weird is that it will feel as if your left eye is closed and you're trying to open it but you can't.
    - the only way to feel that the left eye is open is to put your left hand on the left eye

    What happens here is that the brain is confused. When you put your hand in front of the eye that can't see it understand why you can't see. But when your hand is not there and the left eye can't see (while the right eye can) it makes no sense and it actually feels as if that eye is closed. It's really weird to feel that you try to open an eye that's already open!

    So the visual information is more important and the feeling is giving wrong information here. flash
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Great question, and cool experiment!
    Gonna try that one later today (would look a bit silly in the office, I guess...shame )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    I am afraid to do that. Creepy japanese girl fantoms live in my bathroom i hear.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    D. you ol'dog, you! biggrin
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    HeeroJF wrote
    I'm all for fairness! beer An eye for an eye, and all that.


    (waiting to see how long until you catch on wave )


    Eye'd wondered that too... surely you caught sight of that, Timmer?
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      CommentAuthorBregje
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Martijn wrote
    Gonna try that one later today (would look a bit silly in the office, I guess...shame )

    Why? As long as you don't forget to flush the toilet afterwards no one will suspect a thing. Hehe!
    flash
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Steven wrote
    HeeroJF wrote
    I'm all for fairness! beer An eye for an eye, and all that.


    (waiting to see how long until you catch on wave )


    Eye'd wondered that too... surely you caught sight of that, Timmer?


    He may not have seen the funny side.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Bregje wrote
    Martijn wrote
    Gonna try that one later today (would look a bit silly in the office, I guess...shame )

    Why? As long as you don't forget to flush the toilet afterwards no one will suspect a thing. Hehe!
    flash


    Why??? Is there a side effect to this experiment you haven't told us about??? shocked
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    Steven wrote
    HeeroJF wrote
    I'm all for fairness! beer An eye for an eye, and all that.


    (waiting to see how long until you catch on wave )


    Eye'd wondered that too... surely you caught sight of that, Timmer?


    duuuhhhh confused

    EDIT : okay okay I got it!! rolleyes shame
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    BRONTOPHOBIA

    It seems these days that there's a phobia for everything, though rare, Brontophobia was first diagnosed back in the 1930's and it means an irrational fear of DINOSAURS, even of their bones, sufferers cannot even walk into a museum for fear bones may be on display.

    Despite it's rarity I actually know two people personally who suffer Brontophobia, when they visit my house I have to make sure books, models and even my Jurassic Park DVD's are out of sight, it sounds silly but it's no laughing matter to those who suffer it.


    TRUE or FALSE ?




    smile
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    Phobia names never sound like what they are, so I'm gonna say FALSE.

    May not be a laughing matter, but it IS funny. biggrin
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    Steven wrote
    Phobia names never sound like what they are, so I'm gonna say FALSE.

    May not be a laughing matter, but it IS funny. biggrin


    Good reasoning but then surely it would be called Dinophobia?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorHeeroJF
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    Bregje wrote
    What happens here is that the brain is confused. When you put your hand in front of the eye that can't see it understand why you can't see. But when your hand is not there and the left eye can't see (while the right eye can) it makes no sense and it actually feels as if that eye is closed. It's really weird to feel that you try to open an eye that's already open!

    Are you suggesting my brain gets confused!! I resent this implication!!! *huff*

    Seriously, truly interesting! Amazing how force of habit works on us. And I get credit for thinking outside the box with your original phrasing! cheesy
    ''The mandate, as well as the benefit, of responsibility is the ability to tell when one can afford to be irresponsible.'' - Me
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      CommentAuthorHeeroJF
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    I'm gonna say FALSE.

    You do not know two people personally who suffer Brontophobia, Timmer, but rather three.
    ''The mandate, as well as the benefit, of responsibility is the ability to tell when one can afford to be irresponsible.'' - Me
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    HeeroJF wrote
    I'm gonna say FALSE.

    You do not know two people personally who suffer Brontophobia, Timmer, but rather three.


    Really?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthoromaha
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    I'll go with true on this one

    wink
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    I'm sure such a "fear" exists - perhaps even as phobia (although I always thought you could only have phobia for things that exist today), but Brontophobia.....Nah.

    FALSE.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008
    I have no idea! I know nothing about dinosaurs! Or phobias! I will need to read up! Spend my lonely evenings in study hall, cramming useless paleontolithic and medical facts into my noggin' while I should be finishing my thesis.
    Oh my poor blood pressure.
    Curse you, Timmer. CURSE YOU!
    angry
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2008 edited
    Aren't they called creationists? Oh shit no, they love them.


    I say FALSE!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    FALSE
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    Bregt wrote
    Aren't they called creationists? Oh shit no, they love them.


    I say FALSE!


    biggrin

    Yes, fucking yes! Swing and a hit!! beer
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    Martijn wrote
    I have no idea! I know nothing about dinosaurs! Or phobias! I will need to read up! Spend my lonely evenings in study hall, cramming useless paleontolithic and medical facts into my noggin' while I should be finishing my thesis.
    Oh my poor blood pressure.
    Curse you, Timmer. CURSE YOU!
    angry


    You have my most sincere sympathy tongue wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    Noggin'.

    A delicious pook word!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    TRUE
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  25. False, rather dinophobia.
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    Timmer wrote
    BRONTOPHOBIA

    It seems these days that there's a phobia for everything, though rare, Brontophobia was first diagnosed back in the 1930's and it means an irrational fear of DINOSAURS, even of their bones, sufferers cannot even walk into a museum for fear bones may be on display.

    Despite it's rarity I actually know two people personally who suffer Brontophobia, when they visit my house I have to make sure books, models and even my Jurassic Park DVD's are out of sight, it sounds silly but it's no laughing matter to those who suffer it.


    TRUE or FALSE ?




    smile


    bump
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeNov 28th 2008
    Timmer wrote
    bump


    Ow!
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
    Answer tomorrow.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
    I will propose the next question about the Feldman's, which no one knows anything about.
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2008
    Presumptuous! But certainly true on my part.

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