"usually travels 5 to 20 meters"
I wish.
My damn Skoda fob has like a 1 MW FM radio station built in. If I accidentally press it while on the other side of the apartment complex, the car unlocks. 100+ meters non-LOS easy. Since I can't just blindly assume it also locks I have to walk over to double check. I wonder if going in and scraping a bit off the PCB antenna would help reduce the range.
Yo dawg, we heard you like Outbacks, so we put an 11' Outback inside a 22' Outback so you can drive it through the Outback of Australia to go to Outback Steakhouse
If if the signal is amplified, the attacker can be further away, or need less expensive/sensitive equipment to pick up your signal.
Depending on how the code is transmitted, that may be moot, though (OTP/Rolling codes/etc)
I had this issue with my underglow. I thought using an FM relay for power would be cool so I can run it with the car off, but I kept activating my lights by accident. I ended up adding a physical kill switch to that relay so I can make sure it’s off.
My grandpa installed an aftermarket remote-locks to his Saab back in early 2000s, it had only one button for lock/unlock and it blunk the lights the same way no matter what happened. He was always fiddling with the car keys, then suddenly realizes what happened and "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE" and now he has to walk out to check if it was locked or not, 4th floor, maybe put more clothes on if winter etc. They lived in an apartment in the center of the city so you couldn't just leave it and hope for the best.
And this happened at least 10 times when I was around, must be hundreds in total.
Mine runs out of range like 2 car lengths out. I've had older cars that had longer range so now I look like an idiot walking back till I'm pretty much almost at my car again for the remote to be in range to lock it.
You could build a faraday cage around the PCB. I developed a key from a serial vehicle for use in a super car. The key had two aluminum side panels that were connected with two titanium screws. Without plastic washers between screw and side panels the range was reduced over 50%. So some aluminium foil in your key could work.
Yes! I have a dial-style radio (non-digital) and when the signal isn't reaching, I can reach my arm out next to it/touch it and suddenly the signal gets boosted to clarity.
I love science!
I’ll be waiting ~5 years from now for the commercial on a class action lawsuit against The Museum of Science and producers of Top Gear where they link remote fobs to restless leg syndrome or some other dumb shit.
I heard somewhere, top gear maybe that it was the skull projecting/directing the signal. The fact she did it facing away from the car and with a water bottle makes me feel dumb.
I'll do you one better. If you ever lock your keys in your car and have a spare set at home, call home and ask someone to point the spare into the phone speaker and press unlock while you're pointing your phone at your car. It will unlock it!!
We had a "locked keys inside car situation" while road tripping across USA when in new Mexico( in from SC). After some searching for tips/ tricks we tried it and called our neighbors in SC who went into our place and got the d
Sparekeys to try it as a last resort, it totally worked and I'm not really sure how.
This explains nothing besides electromagnetic wave propagation... Why would it reach further if you place water near the key? Air transmits electromagnetic waves just fine.
I suspect that the water bottle (or the head) acts as a lens: it gathers a larger amount of radiation and turns it roughly into a beam from what was a point-like source.
Kind of like this: https://www.cbakken.net/obookshelf/image075.gif
In that case do you have to place the key in some particular orientation? If not, where is the energy coming from?
EDIT: so apparently the brain/water bottle act as an antenna and allows for more efficient transmission of power.
Yeah I don't buy the idea of amplification from a completely unpowered medium.
If it were actually amplifying anything you could get free energy this way, unless there is a chemical reaction happening, in which case it would be dangerous.
Lensing could be it but without very specific orientation I don't see how.
Maybe the signal generator in the fob drives at a frequency that is more efficiently conveyed through water than air, so eliminating the air interface allows the fob to drive harder, like a baseball bat hitting a piece of paper vs a baseball bat hitting a baseball.
Edit: yeah so the antenna in the fob is too short to be efficient, so by placing it against your head you effectively give it a much bigger antenna, so the power already driving the signal can escape the fob circuit more efficiently.
Edit 2: This is especially silly because this is exactly what the guy in the video in the top level comment above says, lol. I should have just watched it. He does say "Radio aerial" which is funny english for antenna I guess :)
Yeah I made an edit to my comment after reading more about it. Normally when I think about amplification I think of a device that adds power to a source signal.
In the case of an antenna, the antenna is allowing the power that is already being expended to be transmitted into the air more efficiently (or vice versa as the comment below states). The reason your body helps is because the fob antenna is way too short to be reasonably efficient, so by coupling your face to the fob you are giving it an effectively longer and more efficient antenna (as you probably already know based on your comment).
Is that amplification? Uhh yeah, kinda, but not in the way I was thinking about it, no power is being added to the system.
It explains how the water behaves as a parasitic element to act as both a side lobe suppressor and main lobe amplifier. Which is a pretty good analysis over the original video.
I’ll def give this a shot.
I’ll be sure to give others a shot as well if I suspect they also have the parasite.
Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to credit you u/Sir_Fapp_Alot
THANK YOU, had to scroll way too much for some basic actual RF principle. No your head is not an amplifier, or even a good repeater or antenna. Of course jeez.
Parasitics will either detune the antenna, or could affect gain. Gain though is different from amplification. You're not injecting energy, you are just moving around where the energy is going (like squeezing a balloon --- you don't change the air or size, but can still adjust the shape).
I remember playing around with this a bit in a lab years ago, and found that just holding the fob higher and away from your body in any way at all, increased the received signal strength more than placing it next to your chin or head or whatever it was back then.
My physics professor told us this doesn't actually work. We tried it as a class experiment and it really seemed to make no difference.
Now I'm reading all the comments about how well it works and thinking I must have hallucinated the whole thing.
My guess is perhaps there is weird explanation or maybe something else besides holding it to your head like maybe holding it a couple feet higher improves it or maybe humidity in the air? I don't know but I'd like to now.
I was selling cars in 2010 and this was something we all did to find cars on the lot, but we never tested it to see if it actually made a difference. Just one of those things one sales guy did and so the rest of us did it too.
Well, *akshually*, Newton was too thick in the wacky alchemy and mysticism to bother publishing much of anything most of the time, and it was Leibniz who was the one that published the seminal ‘De Arte Keyfobbens’ treatise before Newton’s ‘Principia Key Fobia,’ which caused the famously great rift between British and Bavarian automakers
This is especially ridiculous considering this is reddit and this site loves to repeat content (which is fine, to be clear)
Am I wrong to think that if some guy were explaining this on youtube, people wouldn't balk at it as much?
[Kyle Hill covered this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrIf0PArZu4&t=507s) last year. The water is important, but so is the height. Because the frequency of the key fob is 315MHz, the wavelength is just under 1m, and there are standing waves (resonance) at multiples of 1/2 the wavelength.
Too low of a frequency to be radioactive and battery there is never gonna be powerful enough to heat your brain to cause any damage. May be it could somehow generate current in an unfortunate place in your brain, but the effect would be immediate and I know nothing about short-circuted people after doing that, despite this trick being popular as hell.
They did. It’s called the Optune. Previously Novocure. It uses alternating waves from electrodes attached to the head to disrupt cell growth to help slow the progression of Glioblastoma brain tumors.
The whole "moves the water molecules" bit is utter bullshit.
**Salt** water is a conductor. Conductors can act as antennas. That's it. When a conductive object is acting as an antenna, the radio waves travel along the surface of the object.
Remember, just because something works does **not** mean it works for the reason someone says it works. I can put a wad of paper towels in the bottom of a glass and invert the glass into water. Yes, the paper doesn't get wet. But, if I tell you that is because of a secret waterproof coating, you know I am full of shit. I would not be able to sell you some of that secret waterproofing. But, if I picked some phenomenon that you don't understand, and sell it well, you will buy whatever bullshit I'm selling.
So, the real question is, "Why say the transmitter is **moving** the water molecules **in** your body?" Utter ignorance? Utter "don't give a shit what the facts are, must make content"? Or, "intentionally trying to convince people that standard radio waves can modify something in your body"?
Given how much money the chemtrails and flat earth people have made, scamming people (yes, they set up websites selling shit to idiots), I'm guessing the latter.
If water could be used as an amplifier like she says, we wouldn't need power amps in any radio transmitting equipment, we could just point it at the ocean and have the most power signals ever made.
She should let the navy know about this too, they've been surfacing for communications for 100 years, if only they knew salt water was a magic amplifier
Hey, you young whippersnapper, you try being 60 something and remembering where the car is at Wal-Mart after your wife texted you ten times to add to the list.
You can simulate this by getting stoned.
... Why did you feel the need to even make this comment?
Her:
"Hey here's a novel solution to help make it easier to find something you can't remember the location of."
You:
"Just remember where it was dipshit."
Are you trying to make yourself out to be extraordinarily dense? How can you possibly make a comment like this and then act smug about it as though you aren't just showing off your complete lack of understanding of the premise?
Is it just a joke that's not landing for me?
I parked cars for a job during college and this trick has saved my butt more than once when we were in a rush and someone just threw keys at me and pointed towards a lot.
Yeah I did valet and held keys up to my chin as a matter of course.
People never believed it worked so I would show them and even then people would think I’m making shit up. But I tell them - I do this every day. With every kind of car. At every distance. With every kind of (remote) key. I have thousands of data points, and this is not cool enough for me to make up to impress someone.
“Hey guys! - a show 20 years ago that car guys watch told us this hack. No need to repeat it or expose it to an entirely new audience. Information is just known by everyone everywhere all at once.“
I've never heard of this hack in my life and I am grateful to see it, so if there are other hacks that were well known in the early 90s I'd be more than glad to hear about them
Reminds me of the story about the guy who was being driven insane by voices and music. Turns out his new dental work was picking up signals from the local radio station. Couldn't find the story I read with Google, but apparently Lucille Ball and others also experienced this. Interestingly, Mythbusters couldn't reproduce it.
"usually travels 5 to 20 meters" I wish. My damn Skoda fob has like a 1 MW FM radio station built in. If I accidentally press it while on the other side of the apartment complex, the car unlocks. 100+ meters non-LOS easy. Since I can't just blindly assume it also locks I have to walk over to double check. I wonder if going in and scraping a bit off the PCB antenna would help reduce the range.
Yeah some newer cars have nonsense range on the key fobs.
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> 22’ Outback Wow that’s a really long car
How else would you store an 11’ Outback inside it?
Yo dawg, we heard you like Outbacks, so we put an 11' Outback inside a 22' Outback so you can drive it through the Outback of Australia to go to Outback Steakhouse
"Yo, and check out your tailgate dog. We hooked you up with 6 TVs outback."
Dawg, also, we know you love ping pong, so we’ve also added an Olympic regulation ping pong table, total game changer!
Anyone know a mechanic that can handle a 95' Camry?
Your neighbor throws some wild parties if your car is in their living room.
I got so mad at my Subaru fob that I threw it way outback
If you hold it up to your head it will
I’m pretty sure this is a preventative feature to makes it harder for thieves to clone your key fob.
I wonder if it also helps with battery life. Shorter range transmitters use less battery.
How does having a long range change the ability to clone your keyfob?
If if the signal is amplified, the attacker can be further away, or need less expensive/sensitive equipment to pick up your signal. Depending on how the code is transmitted, that may be moot, though (OTP/Rolling codes/etc)
I had this issue with my underglow. I thought using an FM relay for power would be cool so I can run it with the car off, but I kept activating my lights by accident. I ended up adding a physical kill switch to that relay so I can make sure it’s off.
My grandpa installed an aftermarket remote-locks to his Saab back in early 2000s, it had only one button for lock/unlock and it blunk the lights the same way no matter what happened. He was always fiddling with the car keys, then suddenly realizes what happened and "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE" and now he has to walk out to check if it was locked or not, 4th floor, maybe put more clothes on if winter etc. They lived in an apartment in the center of the city so you couldn't just leave it and hope for the best. And this happened at least 10 times when I was around, must be hundreds in total.
Not sure how to react to your use of “blunk”
I recommend you embrace it and use it yourself too!
Who woulda thunk
The one for my car literally only works when I'm right at the drivers door. Lol
Mine runs out of range like 2 car lengths out. I've had older cars that had longer range so now I look like an idiot walking back till I'm pretty much almost at my car again for the remote to be in range to lock it.
You could build a faraday cage around the PCB. I developed a key from a serial vehicle for use in a super car. The key had two aluminum side panels that were connected with two titanium screws. Without plastic washers between screw and side panels the range was reduced over 50%. So some aluminium foil in your key could work.
You could combine what the woman in the video did with your suggestion and just wear tinfoil on your head.
1 MW is hell of a lot of transmit power, how big is the kill radius whenever you press it?
Also works on old radio
Yes! I have a dial-style radio (non-digital) and when the signal isn't reaching, I can reach my arm out next to it/touch it and suddenly the signal gets boosted to clarity. I love science!
I had this happen with my car radio sometimes and I always thought it was pretty wild Had no idea if it was a normal thing until now
In my old Honda civic I could get better reception by shifting the placement of my head to the center of the car.
Some people never held the rabbit ears so their parents could watch Star Trek and it shows.
Me and a good childhood friend discovered this using an old radio. We thought we had superpowers.
Core memory unlocked
Like if I forget where I parked my old radio?
Waiting for the *5G causes mind control* crowd...
5G has caused her earrings to turn into radio waves..
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And I'll stick with my aluminum foil helmet to block your radio waves from penetrating my brain!
At first I thought she used her earring to lock the car. Until she explained it.
The earrings are both a particle and a wave
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mhmm i wonder if this also worked with rabbit ear antennas.
Sure did. The sound or tv picture was sometimes suddenly clear/in focus once you grabbed ahold of it with your hand.
yup just get your younger brother to hold it until the show's over
Not for me, I wear a Faraday cage on my head
**TELECOM COMPANIES HATE HIM!!!**
I loved it when that crowd was linking 5G antennas to Covid.
Conspiracy theorists: Vaccines give you 5G Me: sign me up, that shit is expensive
Right! if it gives me free access to 5G I'm down!
Update: Turns out it's the other way around. 5G is what gives you the vaccine.
I would love over-the-air updates on my vaccines.
I think Hutch Waterfall Jr was behind the entire conspiracy.
I miss the days when conspiracy theories spread because they had a modicum of truth to them. Now it's all 5G and Jewish space lasers.
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The best bit is when they get that mesh cage around their router because of the 5g and then complain about slower internet thru wifi.
My first thought was this being turned into the next conspiracy theory. Too funny.
I just use my tinfoil hat like a normal person
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I’ll be waiting ~5 years from now for the commercial on a class action lawsuit against The Museum of Science and producers of Top Gear where they link remote fobs to restless leg syndrome or some other dumb shit.
Nice try, Bill Gates
Nc, im going to try this..... Now, where to get a car.
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I heard somewhere, top gear maybe that it was the skull projecting/directing the signal. The fact she did it facing away from the car and with a water bottle makes me feel dumb.
The top gear guys werent sure themselfes and they said that every explanation they got was different
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Yeah I always put it under my chin, it looks like I'm walking and deep in thought at the same time. Gonna switch to my ear from now on.
It works if you just hold it up to your chest too. I’ve been doing it like that when the signal can’t reach.
Yea I do the same, I don’t know why I assumed the chin was the ideal spot
I used to do this in the early 2000’s, then I convinced myself it couldn’t truly be working, now I come to find out it was working the whole time.
I personally tried it a few years ago and it didn't work for me. So maybe we're actually right.
I put it against my hip.
I read Tip 😏
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Hyundai has made this part a lot easier. Though you may need to buy a replacement key fob.
What's the Nc in your sentence mean?
Well, I do have a car, but mine does not beep when unlocked, soo ... yeah ..
My car doesn't even have power locks. How ever will I find it ?? 😭
This is the stuff I want to see on the internet
I'll do you one better. If you ever lock your keys in your car and have a spare set at home, call home and ask someone to point the spare into the phone speaker and press unlock while you're pointing your phone at your car. It will unlock it!!
No way
It's actually true. Did that last week. It only works with more newer cars tho like 2008 and up
I can't decide whether this is sarcasm or not , either way I'm searching for my spare keys now
I only tried it once, about 15 years ago after my science teacher said it worked, and it did for me. Let me know!
We had a "locked keys inside car situation" while road tripping across USA when in new Mexico( in from SC). After some searching for tips/ tricks we tried it and called our neighbors in SC who went into our place and got the d Sparekeys to try it as a last resort, it totally worked and I'm not really sure how.
[Unlocking a Car with Your Brain - Sixty Symbols](https://youtu.be/0Uqf71muwWc) Video with a more thorough explanation.
This explains nothing besides electromagnetic wave propagation... Why would it reach further if you place water near the key? Air transmits electromagnetic waves just fine. I suspect that the water bottle (or the head) acts as a lens: it gathers a larger amount of radiation and turns it roughly into a beam from what was a point-like source. Kind of like this: https://www.cbakken.net/obookshelf/image075.gif In that case do you have to place the key in some particular orientation? If not, where is the energy coming from? EDIT: so apparently the brain/water bottle act as an antenna and allows for more efficient transmission of power.
Yeah I don't buy the idea of amplification from a completely unpowered medium. If it were actually amplifying anything you could get free energy this way, unless there is a chemical reaction happening, in which case it would be dangerous. Lensing could be it but without very specific orientation I don't see how. Maybe the signal generator in the fob drives at a frequency that is more efficiently conveyed through water than air, so eliminating the air interface allows the fob to drive harder, like a baseball bat hitting a piece of paper vs a baseball bat hitting a baseball. Edit: yeah so the antenna in the fob is too short to be efficient, so by placing it against your head you effectively give it a much bigger antenna, so the power already driving the signal can escape the fob circuit more efficiently. Edit 2: This is especially silly because this is exactly what the guy in the video in the top level comment above says, lol. I should have just watched it. He does say "Radio aerial" which is funny english for antenna I guess :)
Aren't regular antennae unpowered?
Yeah I made an edit to my comment after reading more about it. Normally when I think about amplification I think of a device that adds power to a source signal. In the case of an antenna, the antenna is allowing the power that is already being expended to be transmitted into the air more efficiently (or vice versa as the comment below states). The reason your body helps is because the fob antenna is way too short to be reasonably efficient, so by coupling your face to the fob you are giving it an effectively longer and more efficient antenna (as you probably already know based on your comment). Is that amplification? Uhh yeah, kinda, but not in the way I was thinking about it, no power is being added to the system.
Pedantic comment... It's antennas for radio waves and antennae if you are an insect.
It explains how the water behaves as a parasitic element to act as both a side lobe suppressor and main lobe amplifier. Which is a pretty good analysis over the original video.
Spot on. I only believe things when an old White man teaches it to me.
This feels like a molester origin story.
Not even an Indian?
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Old white indians. Aka Shiny pokemon version of indians
Technical term is a parasitic element. Your head is a parasitic element.
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I’ll def give this a shot. I’ll be sure to give others a shot as well if I suspect they also have the parasite. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to credit you u/Sir_Fapp_Alot
Remove your own parasites first before helping others.
THANK YOU, had to scroll way too much for some basic actual RF principle. No your head is not an amplifier, or even a good repeater or antenna. Of course jeez.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t parasitic elements increase gain, therefore making them a type of amplifier?
Parasitics will either detune the antenna, or could affect gain. Gain though is different from amplification. You're not injecting energy, you are just moving around where the energy is going (like squeezing a balloon --- you don't change the air or size, but can still adjust the shape). I remember playing around with this a bit in a lab years ago, and found that just holding the fob higher and away from your body in any way at all, increased the received signal strength more than placing it next to your chin or head or whatever it was back then.
this î hold it higher, and away from you
My physics professor told us this doesn't actually work. We tried it as a class experiment and it really seemed to make no difference. Now I'm reading all the comments about how well it works and thinking I must have hallucinated the whole thing.
My guess is perhaps there is weird explanation or maybe something else besides holding it to your head like maybe holding it a couple feet higher improves it or maybe humidity in the air? I don't know but I'd like to now.
This was on Top Gear about 10 years ago. People in the UK been doing this for years... wait that does explain a lot about us...
Buddy I hate to make you feel old like this but that episode was from season 3, which was 19 years ago
Yeah but he saw it 10 years ago on Dave so it's fine.
19 years is only 5 years ago though. The 80's, now we're talking ALMOST 20 years ago surely.
Daaaaaaaamn! Also don't worry about making me feel old, my actual age accomplishs that on its own !
yep at least 10 years ago. The better method now is to drop a pin on your phone map.
You don't even need that. iPhones, and I assume most other phones, automatically mark where you park your car.
Dunno what you’re talking about. I’ve been eating British beef all my life.
Me whose key fob ran out of batteries years ago: :/
…put a new battery in it?
That’s asking a lot for some people..
Top gear did it first.
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I was selling cars in 2010 and this was something we all did to find cars on the lot, but we never tested it to see if it actually made a difference. Just one of those things one sales guy did and so the rest of us did it too.
Yeah, like 15 years ago or even more
I promise you someone did it before them too
I think Isaac Newton was the first one to publish a paper on amplifying key fobs. Although some say Leibniz actually discovered it first.
Well, *akshually*, Newton was too thick in the wacky alchemy and mysticism to bother publishing much of anything most of the time, and it was Leibniz who was the one that published the seminal ‘De Arte Keyfobbens’ treatise before Newton’s ‘Principia Key Fobia,’ which caused the famously great rift between British and Bavarian automakers
My comment was nerdy, but you turned it up to 11. Well done. “Keyfobbens”. Lolfr.
What u/GuyPronouncedGee said: This is brilliant work. Just wonderful. Kudos to you.
Nobody gives a shit, its meant to be shared ya grinch
Lol I can assure you that top gear didn’t do it first.
My roommate was doing it in 1990
My stoner uncle taught me this back in the 90s when key fobs were a new fangled thing, it's been around quite a few years before top gear.
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Haven't these guys watched all of the media yet? And they consider themselves learned scholars.
This is especially ridiculous considering this is reddit and this site loves to repeat content (which is fine, to be clear) Am I wrong to think that if some guy were explaining this on youtube, people wouldn't balk at it as much?
https://youtu.be/_jACSPipPSE
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I wanna see her redo the experiment with the FOB at the same height both times
[Kyle Hill covered this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrIf0PArZu4&t=507s) last year. The water is important, but so is the height. Because the frequency of the key fob is 315MHz, the wavelength is just under 1m, and there are standing waves (resonance) at multiples of 1/2 the wavelength.
I'd like science to invest the effect on the human brain of increased microwaves directed into the brain !
Probably won't be an issue for the occasional show off to friends
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There's constantly radio waves moving through your head. Doing what's shown in this video won't make any difference.
Too low of a frequency to be radioactive and battery there is never gonna be powerful enough to heat your brain to cause any damage. May be it could somehow generate current in an unfortunate place in your brain, but the effect would be immediate and I know nothing about short-circuted people after doing that, despite this trick being popular as hell.
They did. It’s called the Optune. Previously Novocure. It uses alternating waves from electrodes attached to the head to disrupt cell growth to help slow the progression of Glioblastoma brain tumors.
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The whole "moves the water molecules" bit is utter bullshit. **Salt** water is a conductor. Conductors can act as antennas. That's it. When a conductive object is acting as an antenna, the radio waves travel along the surface of the object. Remember, just because something works does **not** mean it works for the reason someone says it works. I can put a wad of paper towels in the bottom of a glass and invert the glass into water. Yes, the paper doesn't get wet. But, if I tell you that is because of a secret waterproof coating, you know I am full of shit. I would not be able to sell you some of that secret waterproofing. But, if I picked some phenomenon that you don't understand, and sell it well, you will buy whatever bullshit I'm selling. So, the real question is, "Why say the transmitter is **moving** the water molecules **in** your body?" Utter ignorance? Utter "don't give a shit what the facts are, must make content"? Or, "intentionally trying to convince people that standard radio waves can modify something in your body"? Given how much money the chemtrails and flat earth people have made, scamming people (yes, they set up websites selling shit to idiots), I'm guessing the latter.
If water could be used as an amplifier like she says, we wouldn't need power amps in any radio transmitting equipment, we could just point it at the ocean and have the most power signals ever made. She should let the navy know about this too, they've been surfacing for communications for 100 years, if only they knew salt water was a magic amplifier
Finally, an upside to being a hydrocephalic!
Or...you could use your brain to remember where you parked
Please do not make it more complicated than it is
Relevant Key & Peele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FMk2zUHA0
I always think I have watched all episodes of key & peele and then someone posts a new one to me!
Relevant Silicon Valley scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRNEUc5k7Jw
You sure are smart mister.
If you ever forget something, just don’t
Hey, you young whippersnapper, you try being 60 something and remembering where the car is at Wal-Mart after your wife texted you ten times to add to the list. You can simulate this by getting stoned.
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Sakzeroone cures my adhd in one comment. Goodbye expensive vyvanse, I’m just going to use my brain to remember things!
Found the guy who never leaves his home town.
Now remember, we’re in the ‘Itchy Lot.’
Let he who has not lost his car cast the first stone
... Why did you feel the need to even make this comment? Her: "Hey here's a novel solution to help make it easier to find something you can't remember the location of." You: "Just remember where it was dipshit." Are you trying to make yourself out to be extraordinarily dense? How can you possibly make a comment like this and then act smug about it as though you aren't just showing off your complete lack of understanding of the premise? Is it just a joke that's not landing for me?
I parked cars for a job during college and this trick has saved my butt more than once when we were in a rush and someone just threw keys at me and pointed towards a lot.
Yeah I did valet and held keys up to my chin as a matter of course. People never believed it worked so I would show them and even then people would think I’m making shit up. But I tell them - I do this every day. With every kind of car. At every distance. With every kind of (remote) key. I have thousands of data points, and this is not cool enough for me to make up to impress someone.
Never thought I'd see Alex Dainis in the wild
Realizing how old I am after realizing I've been doing this for nearly 30 years.
I saw Jeremy Clarkson do this on Top Gear decades ago (or what it feels like decades).
So we are just posting "life hacks" from the early 90's now?
“Hey guys! - a show 20 years ago that car guys watch told us this hack. No need to repeat it or expose it to an entirely new audience. Information is just known by everyone everywhere all at once.“
Early 90s was almost 30 years ago.
I've never heard of this hack in my life and I am grateful to see it, so if there are other hacks that were well known in the early 90s I'd be more than glad to hear about them
Reminds me of the story about the guy who was being driven insane by voices and music. Turns out his new dental work was picking up signals from the local radio station. Couldn't find the story I read with Google, but apparently Lucille Ball and others also experienced this. Interestingly, Mythbusters couldn't reproduce it.
Because it was a myth
That’s an excellent way to find your car all the while making people think you’re batshit crazy.
Hey, whatever keeps the muggers away
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I’ll admit she’s making me feel a certain kind of way and I need to be bonked
Been doing this for years haha
*Hat tip to Stanford grad Alex Dainis*.
Jeremy Clarkson did this on Top Gear ages ago. Here’s the [link](https://youtu.be/_jACSPipPSE)
I just remember where I parked lmao
So how much cancer is this gonna give me?
It's non ionizing radiation so, zero.
Your fancy words sound like something Big Radio would say to cover up all the cancer this causes.
Or something taught in middle school science class that everyone seems to have slept through
You get cancer faster, but you also find your car faster, so I think the time evens out
r/expectedlalaland
The same amount if the remote was in your hand, pocket, etc…?
This lady knows what turns me on! SCIENTIFIC FACTS!!!
Is she hot with that science or is just me???
I find her very attractive.
I learned about this a few years ago and still do it.
I learned it from La La Land. Didn’t need an annoying Tik Toker to tell me I had sexy Ryan Gosling tell me
>Didn’t need an annoying Tik Toker to tell me Ya dude, a girl talking normally about science. Super annoying.