Brainwaves.

kneemos

How strong are brainwaves?and how far away could you pick them up?

camel jockey

Are you planning a trip to the north pole or something?

TeddyTedson

Sometimes I don't even pick up my own to be honest, so I imagine not very far. It could be interference from my wireless network either.

camel jockey

You probably need a brain to emit or pick up...

Call Me Jimmy

kneemos wrote: »

How strong are brainwaves?and how far away could you pick them up?

Very strong, essentially they are the whole universe passing through you.

TeddyTedson

camel jockey wrote: »

You probably need a brain to emit or pick up...

You're probably right.

darkpagandeath

tinfoil hats help stop aliens reading your brainwaves i hear

kneemos

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Very strong, essentially they are the whole universe passing through you.

Eh?

TeddyTedson

darkpagandeath wrote: »

tinfoil hats help stop aliens reading your brainwaves i hear

Actually not the case anymore. NASA filed a report in 2011 saying that tinfoil hats act as an amplifier and increases the risks of brainwaves being intercepted.

Roger_007

Brainwaves can be very powerful indeed. When one fellow I know comes out with: "I've just had a brainwave......", everyone runs for the hills. How powerful is that?

camel jockey

Brainfarts on the other hand...

Roger_007

camel jockey wrote: »

Brainfarts on the other hand...

Where precisely do you place that hand.......

Maximus Alexander

kneemos wrote: »

How strong are brainwaves?and how far away could you pick them up?

Not very and not very.

camel jockey

Roger_007 wrote: »

Where precisely do you place that hand.......

Fart on you hand and rub on your scalp. The best known treatment for hair loss.

greedygoblin

camel jockey wrote: »

Fart on you hand and rub on your scalp. The best known treatment for hair loss.

That's a hair brained idea.

wendell borton

Brianwaves

Micky Dolenz

Brain 0/

entropi

Once I strapped a lightbulb to my head to test this out. OP, the results are not good.

kneemos

I was wondering.The Voyager spacecraft is gazillions of miles away and they can still pick up a signal from it.So how hard is it to pick up brainwaves?
Understanding them might be a problem I suppose.

Maximus Alexander

kneemos wrote: »

I was wondering.The Voyager spacecraft is gazillions of miles away and they can still pick up a signal from it.So how hard is it to pick up brainwaves?
Understanding them might be a problem I suppose.

Have you seen the size of the dish they use to do that? And Voyager is signalling at thousands, if not millions of times the power of a brainwave.

kneemos

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Have you seen the size of the dish they use to do that? And Voyager is signalling at thousands, if not millions of times the power of a brainwave.

Granted but it's millions of miles away.AFAIK because of it's distance from the sun the power it generates is quite weak.

greedygoblin

kneemos wrote: »

Granted but it's millions of miles away.AFAIK because of it's distance from the sun the power it generates is quite weak.

Just to give you a few numbers OP. Brainwave signals are in the range of a few microvolts (millionths of a Volt) to a couple of millivolts (thousanths of a Volt). So they're very weak signals indeed. Recording them requires special electrodes placed on the scalp, or sometimes in cases where a person may be undergoing potential surgery, on the surface of the brain itself.

wendell borton

greedygoblin wrote: »

Just to give you a few numbers OP. Brainwave signals are in the range of a few microvolts (millionths of a Volt) to a couple of millivolts (thousanths of a Volt). So they're very weak signals indeed. Recording them requires special electrodes placed on the scalp, or sometimes in cases where a person may be undergoing potential surgery, on the surface of the brain itself.

That's a whole load of lies. Its disinformation spread by the complex so people don't take countermeasures, well it wont fool me. I'm still wearing my tinfoil hat so the NSA cant steal my brainwaves.

Capt'n Midnight

Today's word is Electroencephalography

kneemos

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Today's word is Electroencephalography

I reject your word and choose Cat.

biko

Brainwaves are fairly strong, some can bend a spoon apparently..