Theme Week, Part Coat Rack

Jeremy’s Sametime Status Proudly Presents:   
Music Fact Check Week!   
LMFAO wishes they had Precognition in order to see something coming, not Telekinesis   


Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis? 


Today's topic is Extrasensory Perception, or ESP.  ESP covers a range of para-psychological abilities that people claim to have, though no scientific evidence of anyone actually demonstrating them.  All studies showing ESP ability have been shown to have flaws in the experimental design and have been debunked.  

That said, these types of abilities are far-ranging and some are remarkably interesting.  I studied them intently for an entire part of a semester when I was in college because I had to take a liberal arts course, and ended up in a Psychology class that was available at a convenient time.  Janine Melnitz captured a good many of these types of phenomena in Ghostbusters, though UFOs, Nessie, and Atlantis have precious little to do with perception.  

She does mention Astral Projection (Out-Of-Body Experiences), Telepathy (Communicating with others outside of normal sensory channels like hearing or sight), Clairvoyance (The ability to see hidden objects, again, outside of the normal sensory channels), among others.  The important one we'r dealing with today is Telekinesis.  

Also known as psychokinesis, it is the ability to physically influence objects without actual physical contact.  For example, using your mind to Move A Coat Rack From Across An Office.  The term Telekinesis was first coined by a Russian scientist in 1890.  

"Love Lockdown" is a "song" "by" "rapper" Kanye West, released in 2008.  Some time later, party rock enthusiasts LMFAO (An acronym for "Loving My Friends And Others") released a house/techno remix of the song which featured a couple new verses.  Why?  I don't know...it's what musicians do these days.  One of the lyrical lines from the newer version of the song is as follows:  "But you done broke my heart, into a million pieces.  I should've seen it coming, wish i had telekinesis" implying that if he could have looked into the future, he would have been able to foresee his heartbreak and perhaps prevented it.  

Unfortunately, moving a coat rack from across an office doesn't give you that ability.  

The branch of ESP that deals with seeing into the future is something entirely different, known as Precognition.  Redfoo and Sky Blu should probably leave psychoanalysis to professionals and stick with shuffling.  Apparently, they do that every day.