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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #5222
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Is there some sort of piece of assistive technology that both groups of people use to communicate?
    Really clutching at straws here.. :o


  • #5223
    New Home
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    Almost there, Corkgirl.

    Keep guessing, I'll get back to this in the morning, it's bedtime for me. :)


  • #5224
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    What's the connection between fighter jet pilots and 'Locked-in' Syndrome'?

    Is it something to do with using eye movement to control things? Struggling here...


  • #5225
    New Home
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    Sorry, I completely forgot to come back to this.

    I went back to read more about it myself, and my question was probably misleading in the first place. They mentioned 'helmets worn by American pilots' and by 'soldiers', they didn't mention fighter jet pilots specifically.

    Anyway, these helmets can detect neural impulses of the person wearing them, so if a pilot were to faint, the helmet would detect this and set the auto-pilot function, or something to that effect. Some doctors and engineers have been using those same helmets to detect changes in the consciousness of people with severe brain damage/with locked-in syndrome, to prove that they were aware of what was going on around them, and that even though their mind wanted them to do what was asked of them (move a finger, stick their tongues out, etc) their bodies wouldn't let them, or would let them but after a very long delay - they've been using these helmets to help people communicate. There's even been a case in which a woman who was apparently in a 'vegetative state' who, thanks to this kind of helmet, realised that she was finally being 'heard', and that gave her the impulse she needed to react, and she even started talking again and asked the doctors to tell her husband she was happy.


  • #5226
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Sorry, I completely forgot to come back to this.

    I went back to read more about it myself, and my question was probably misleading in the first place. They mentioned 'helmets worn by American pilots' and by 'soldiers', they didn't mention fighter jet pilots specifically.

    Anyway, these helmets can detect neural impulses of the person wearing them, so if a pilot were to faint, the helmet would detect this and set the auto-pilot function, or something to that effect. Some doctors and engineers have been using those same helmets to detect changes in the consciousness of people with severe brain damage/with locked-in syndrome, to prove that they were aware of what was going on around them, and that even though their mind wanted them to do what was asked of them (move a finger, stick their tongues out, etc) their bodies wouldn't let them, or would let them but after a very long delay - they've been using these helmets to help people communicate. There's even been a case in which a woman who was apparently in a 'vegetative state' who, thanks to this kind of helmet, realised that she was finally being 'heard', and that gave her the impulse she needed to react, and she even started talking again and asked the doctors to tell her husband she was happy.

    Ask another so. :)


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  • #5227
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    On a related topic, who wrote 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly'?


  • #5228
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    On a related topic, who wrote 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly'?

    Oh jeez, Mrs S once had me sit through a film of it. The name escapes me though..... for now.


  • #5229
    New Home
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    Remember Srameen, asking a friend/your wife is considered cheating. ;)


  • #5230
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    New Home wrote: »
    Remember Srameen, asking a friend/your wife is considered cheating. ;)
    Hes cheating on his wife ?


  • #5231
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    On a related topic, who wrote 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly'?

    Jean Dominique Bauby.
    Depressing enough film


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  • #5232
    New Home
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    sunny2004 wrote: »
    Hes cheating on his wife ?

    Sunny, the rule here is that you have to guess correctly before you can ask your own question. :pac: ;)


  • #5233
    New Home
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Jean Dominique Bauby.
    Depressing enough film

    Imagine living it... :/

    But, Corkgirl, you're correct. :)


  • #5234
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    Imagine living it... :/

    But, Corkgirl, you're correct. :)

    Had to write a full book report on it in school so watched it too many time :(

    What is the original title (French title) of Bauby's memoir?


  • #5235
    New Home
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    Le scaphandre et le papillon, I think.


  • #5236
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    Le scaphandre et le papillon, I think.

    Correct! Back to you ;)


  • #5237
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Another easy one.

    Who wrote 'Tuesdays with Morrie'?


  • #5238
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Another easy one.

    Who wrote 'Tuesdays with Morrie'?

    Mitch Albom?


  • #5239
    New Home
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    That's him. The stage is yours, IrishZeus.


  • #5240
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    That's him. The stage is yours, IrishZeus.

    Thanks NH. To keep the theme going as I have no question prepped:

    Which author is currently writing "The Stormlight Archives"?


  • #5241
    New Home
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    A wild guess - J.K. Rowling?


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  • #5242
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    A wild guess - J.K. Rowling?

    'Fraid not :)


  • #5243
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Thanks NH. To keep the theme going as I have no question prepped:

    Which author is currently writing "The Stormlight Archives"?

    Some guy called Sandersum or Sanderson. Something like that.


  • #5244
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Some guy called Sandersum or Sanderson. Something like that.

    Yes but need the full name :)


  • #5245
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Yes but need the full name :)

    I'm even more vague on that.
    Brendan
    Brandon
    Brandan


  • #5246
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Brandon Sanderson - though Srameen was really there with it. Some good books and some that drag a bit.


  • #5247
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Brandon Sanderson is correct. As looksee said, some good and some bad but has consistently been a NY Times best seller for many years in the Fantasy/Fiction genre. Possibly one of the best writers alive today for world-building ability.

    Perhaps a question each from Srameen and looksee?


  • #5248
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What county in Ireland has the lowest highest point?


  • #5249
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What county in Ireland has the lowest highest point?

    Fairly sure its Mullaghmeen, in Westmeath. Not 100% though.


  • #5250
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Fairly sure its Mullaghmeen, in Westmeath. Not 100% though.

    Sure enough. Westmeath.


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  • #5251
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What is the connection between the Townsend Trumpet, the Akouphone and the Sonotone?


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