Computer dowsing
This has got to be one of my favorite stories about the way high tech and low-tech come together. In this particular case the high tech is faulty chips on a computer board and the low tech is dowsing rods.
In this instance (the original post is here, but you need to scroll a long way down to find the dowsing post), the problem was that the poster had to try and identify faulty RAM chips on a board. To do this the conventional way involved taking out 12 of the 24 chips, running diagnostics, then checking half of the others, testing and replacing until all were checked (although the constant taking and replacing could make them malfunction, which meant starting over).
Then the poster had a brainwave and decided to try dowsing for the bad chips. He found this to be a lot faster and was accurate. (Of course, he could never let anyone see him doing this…(we’ve been there!))
Such little tales always make me feel happy, because they show that, no matter how ’scientific’ people can be, there’s always room for the ‘wierd’ or the unexplainable.
And we should all have room for that in our lives.
And by the way, you really ought to spend some time reading the other posts in this link, because some of them are funny and some of them remind me of things I’ve done (or should have done) and some of them are just plain not of this planet! Enjoy!
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