Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?" video.

  1. They have been pretending to be able to find water.
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  2.  @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475  The most ancient texts we have are about day-to-day stuff like shopping lists. And no one ever mentioned any sort of capability to sense compass directions before compasses were invented. They mentioned recognizing landmarks and the positions of celestial objects.
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  3. To the people in the comments: You having a "good sense of direction" doesn't mean you can sense magnetic fields, it means you're less engaged in the conversation than your friends are.
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  4. They've tested them and found out that "EMF sensitivity" doesn't exist.
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  5. >When the sun was directly overhead or had set, it was impossible to know which way you were going by looking around The sun is rarely directly overhead, there is stars in the night (polaris is pretty much directly over north), vegetation isn't symmetric in all directions, etc.
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  6.  @joshuah.4496  You do have a sense of what's going on outside. Your house isn't perfectly sealed and you can look out of the windows. Also you don't write down predictions every day and test them, so it can all be 100% confirmation bias.
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  7. No, you can't. That's called confirmation bias. Of course you're gonna notice people, who look at you, more than you notice people, who don't look at you. But you notice them with your eyes. I also find it quite odd that people think they can tell such things without ever having actually tested it.
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  8. No. People simply pay more or less attention to the landmarks they've passed and whether they've changed directions.
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  9.  @LuciaFiero  Evolution most likely selected for people with horns and fangs before we had swords. What an idiotic argument.
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  10.  @denniskoppo4259  Does he drive his truck offroad through the Amazonas rain forest or sth? I always know what direction I'm travelling on the road as well, that hardly requires a compass.
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  11. You really suck at being "sure" about things.
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  12.  @iwatchwithnoads7480  For fishermen it's simply islands themselves for the most part. Most sea-going people throughout history stayed within view of the land, further debunking the notion that humans ever used the magnetic field to navigate.
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  13. "On some occasions". Ie it works when it works. It stands to reason that you generally know where home is if you can observe celestial bodies or have landmarks or roughly remember your movements.
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