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Wikipedia provides the following additional explanation on Telemetry in addition to what we have known from the dictionary entries to date:

Telemetry typically refers to wireless communications (i.e. using a radio system to implement the data link), but can also refer to data transfer over other media, such as a telephone or computer network or via an optical link.

Accordingly, I think it should be okay to say that both telepathy and telemetry share some of the communication’s basic requirements in order to work. At least, both the transmitters and receivers or transceivers in either ends have to be ready in either case.

This thought came to mind after I woke up this morning and found that there was another email from my cyber friend, Captain B, asking me if the ‘Tree Man’ was a true story or a hoax? We have been working together for almost two years now even though we have never met in person, and we found that sometime the information on the Internet turned out to be a hoax. Thus, nothing special when we exchange information like that.

The interesting part here, which was an afterthought after receiving that belated email was, there must be some sort of Telepathic transmission between us last night beyond our ability, or at least, beyond my ability to sense it.

We had look at the same story probably around the same time, even though half-a-day apart due to the difference time zones. In retrospect, I thought, my friend Captain B might have thought about, “how could I help this guy?” while as you may have read from my previous posting, I was thinking that someone, somewhere could do something to help this poor guy.

I’m confidence to say this, since if you look through his blog, you will know that my friend Captain B would always be in the front line to organize the effort to help people in need, or people in natural disaster region etc.

The trouble last night was, the communication links between us was not working correctly, both telepathically as well as telemetrically.

When I first saw his email right after my post, I was wondering, where was he? I made a call in the evening to his hotel room in LA but someone told me from the other side that it wasn’t him. I then checked with the front desk and they said that he has already left. I got his email with his room number on Thanksgiving’s day but by the time I remembered to call him, it was either too late or too early. I didn’t want to disrupt his sleep thinking that he would have an all night flight back to Singapore. But his response to my posting was too fast. I was wondering whether I got the wrong room number or where was him? Few minutes after I posted the entry on the ‘Tree Man’ his email with the link to the Daily Telegraph was already in my mailbox. I thought that was fast. I thought he was responding to my post.

It was so embracing to woke up this morning and found another email of him asking about whether the story of ‘Tree Man’ was a hoax. Thus I guess, after he sent that email he then went to Google himself and emailed me to confirm that indeed it was a true story and it wasn’t a hoax. At the same time I was blog-walking through the blog-indonesia.com, seeing someone mentioned the subject and then wrote my posting. His second email went thru, but I didn’t see his first email until this morning.

So what’s happening here?

At first I thought I have missed his previous email. But looking at the list of my Inbox, there is no way I’d have missed to see the first email should it be there. They were sent few minutes apart and they should be listed on top of each other. Thus this morning, I email Captain B apologizing that I didn’t see his email. There was no reason not to mention his email should it be there. But after the first email was sent, I realized that it wasn’t my fault of not seeing his email. Here is why?

On Nov 19, while trying to install the Technorati plugin of Doug Karr like the one I have installed in my Indonesian language blog, I called the hosting company of this blog asking them, which PHP version was running in their server? Nope, it wasn’t PHP5 so I couldn’t install the same Technorati ranking plugin as the one in my other blog. During the phone conversation, the Tech Support of the hosting company sent me an email but after waiting for a while, I didn’t receive it. They asked me to email them and it was okay. They finally sent 3 consecutive emails in the span of 9 minutes (I just checked their time stamps), and I didn’t receive them all. Finally they sent another email to my alternative email address and I got it. The next morning, all three emails were showing up in my Inbox. They arrived at 3:26, 3:32 and 3:36AM that morning and of course I was in bed at that time. I thought the same thing had happened to Captain B’s first email last night. Somehow, the first email was trapped somewhere down the road and wasn’t spitted out until I went to bed like the email from my hosting company. Thus at least I see a fundamental difference between Telepathy and Telemetry now. They both need the transceivers and the transmission medium to be ready in order to work properly, but in the case of Telemetry, there could be a delay in the medium during the propagation. Have you ever heard such a delay in Telepathy?

I always set my Yahoo Messanger and Skype into invincible modes, but most of the time, I didn’t open the YM at all. You could have sent me plenty of messages but I would not see them until I open my YM. Thus even though we are at instant messaging age right now, but the physics principle always applies. You need to have all three communication boxes, i.e, transmitters, transmission medium, and receivers in your communication system block diagram to be ready in order to make it work. In that sense, telemetry is one step behind telepathy. Telepathy to me doesn’t have the transmission medium problem. The only trouble, however, they do have a biggest constraint. Not everybody has that telepathic ability. People may receive then dismiss your message, thinking it was simply a flash of thought even though the message arrives instantly. Don’t you think so?

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