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Long Eaton, the home of Living Voice and the place where the Diabolical Artificer grew up, I knew it would be famous for something one day.
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15th May 2020, 12:48 pm | #1463 |
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Good Lord! And I thought the Great British Public's lack of scientific literacy had been exposed by The Sickness. It seems chicanery in general life is just the same as it ever was in Defoe's 'Journal of the Plague Year'.
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EDIT: it also has, I'm sure, a completely illegal plug, that only goes into the earth pin of your UK socket, while leaving the now unshuttered L and N nicely exposed. Last edited by duncanlowe; 15th May 2020 at 12:59 pm. |
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Researh in this area was done over fifty years ago by an American lady whose name I don't know - she's most famous as the aunt of James Thurber who did publish about some of her research in this area. I notice the website uses the phrase 'Faraday Cage' thereby adding evidence to the statement that >99.99% of the times when one is mentioned, the context proves that the author hasn't a clue. They'll have to update the webpage soon to mention 5G, they could be losing sales without it. It looks a great convenience. We'll be able to take our tinfoil hats off when going to bed! Hoorah! David
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Many years ago I moved into a house in a small village near Munich. I was working in the garden one day when an old man walking past stopped to talk. Welcome to the village and all that and BTW did I know that there were earth radiations here? The funny thing was that these ones were dangerous and could cause all sorts of illnesses, including cancer. The only way to be safe was to be screened from them. For a not insignificant fee he offered to cover my cellar with thick copper rods. Maybe German electrons are different to English ones.
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Surely electric blankets are Class 2 appliances with no earth connection. Switching them off would only neutralise you not earth you.
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We're in danger of making some of the lesser audiophools sound normal by comparison.
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I wonder if the earthing bedsheet might remove my need to keep one foot on the floor when retiring for the night to stop the room spinning round after finishing the second bottle of Chateau Pavie 2008?
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There is but one way to find out!
Electric blankets, class II, well most here seems to thinks neutral is near enough earth so it should do the job. |
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Sorry, MM, no. Bet they have double pole switches, so you'd have to roast to get any benefit. And you'd still capacitively float half-way to mains.
I take Bill's point. Could we sell under-carpet earth mats to audio aficionados? They could connect it to their box full of high-end soil, and spend many happy hours moving it around for best effect. Shades of Glen Baxter "We whiled away those long winter nights re-arranging the Gaugin..." David
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Well, because https://rowlandearthing.co.uk mentions a research paper (without giving the full bibliographic reference, see https://rowlandearthing.co.uk/pages/science), I ferreted it out
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/ And right at the end it says: G. Chevalier, S. T. Sinatra, and J. L. Oschman are independent contractors for Earthx L. Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research, and own a small percentage of shares in the company. So it was not an independent paper at all. The page of papers cited on the next page relate to elite athletes, those with hypertension, and are often written by those with a vested interest. So actually complete bunkum. Craig |
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That reminds me to clean my glasses, that will make the voice(s) in my head clearer when reading a book. |
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Cheers, GJ *Popular word, 'killed' - but they don't mean eliminated, just rendered 'lifeless'.
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The reference to free eletrons reminds me that a few decades ago, ionisers were all the rage on account of the allegedly health-promoting properties of the ions they produced.
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Don't ionisers at least have the merit of precipitating dust (ie. filth, muck and rubbish) from the air? In the smoker days of yore that might well have been a health benefit!
They might even allow "cleaner sound" to reach your ears, getting vaguely back on topic.
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So now you are saying that I will also have to check my sockets first to see how they are switched adding extra complexity. I just want earthing that works |
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