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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by grmn on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:37PM (#21792446)
Wreck a microwave oven or hold a video-streaming phone to your ear, either should be perceptible.
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by catalogia on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:06PM (#21792994)
Can you demonstrate your supposed cellphone-detection powers in a double-blind experiment? I sincerely doubt it, but I'd be interested in watching you try.
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by cameronbrown on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:20PM (#21793084)
This is one of those things that would be cool if it was true, but probably isn't.
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by grmn on Sunday December 15, 2019 @08:15AM (#21796062)
It's enough radiation to warm and irritate tissue; for me it causes mild swelling. Mild swelling of the brain should be measurable with a cognitive test.
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:52PM (#21792545)
What? How?
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by RandomBacon on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:59PM (#21793628)
With LCD TVs, I haven't noticed them now. But CRT TVs, I could hear if they were on (and muted) in the next room.

Some people are sensitive to some frequencies.

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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by JonathonW on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:15AM (#21794598)
The CRT noise is an actual sound; CRT flyback transformers tend to vibrate at the horizontal scanning rate of the display and that's audible for NTSC and PAL (at around 15 kHz), if you have good hearing.

An LCD shouldn't whine, but some can (bad capacitors, cheap power supplies, or any number of other causes).

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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by toast0 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:36PM (#21794088)
You can certainly hear one of my LCD TVs, at least when it's working hardest (mostly black screen). Samsung had a capacitor recall program, but it wasn't that bad while that was active. I've been hoping it will die, but no such luck.
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Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense by braindeath on Saturday December 14, 2019 @07:36PM (#21793505)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_...

Ie “coil whine”.. not saying this guy isn’t a nut. But it is possible to hear electronic devices. On a computer streaming video the increased current demands can make power supply coils more audible.

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