Psionics

Psionics is a type of alleged psychic ability that includes telepathy, psychokinesis, pyrokinesis, and others. The term comes from psi ('psyche') and the -onics from electronics (machine).Parapsychology is a pseudoscience that began around 1889 and aims to study psionics and other supernatural claims. There is no scientific evidence that psionic abilities exist.

Psionic abilities appear frequently in science fiction and provide characters with supernatural abilities.John W. Campbell, an editor of a science fiction magazine, became excited about fringe science, and went on to define psionics as "engineering applied to the mind". His encouragement of psionics led author Murray Leinster and others to write stories such as The Psionic Mousetrap.

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Passive

Passive may refer to:

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Passive (song)

"Passive" is a song from the band A Perfect Circle's 2004 album eMOTIVe The song is a remake of the song "Vacant" by the now-defunct band Tapeworm.

"Vacant" was notably first performed by A Perfect Circle without Trent Reznor's agreement.

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Video

The song is used in the film Constantine and the music video uses imagery from the film: Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz's character) entering hell with band (shot with thermal cameras) playing in hell. James Iha and Jeordie White did not appear in the video (since they both joined the band after filming); instead with previous bassist Paz Lenchantin and guitarist Danny Lohner joining Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel and Josh Freese in the band lineup for the video.

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Psi

Psi or PSI or Ψ may refer to:

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Psi (comics)

Psi is a DC character created by Paul Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino for Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1 (November 1982).

Fictional character biography

Her real name is Gayle Marsh. At the age of twelve, she developed psychic powers, primarily psychokinesis. After her parents died she was raised by the scientist David Pendergast who was preparing to fight a new menace called "the Decay." In college, she took the alias of Psi and fought Supergirl several times, thinking that Supergirl was the Decay. The truth was that David Pendergast was an extension of her own fears. Realizing that the Decay was David and herself, she put a stop to Pendergast and herself.

Later she joined the Suicide Squad for a mission in Central America, but she was killed by the Rocket Red Brigade. Her allies, Mister 104, the Thinker and the Weasel do not survive the mission.

During the events of Blackest Night, Psi's corpse is reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps alongside several other fallen Suicide Squad members. Psi is apparently destroyed by the Manhunter's self-destruct mechanism to unleashing an explosion of Green Lantern energy that eradicates the Black Lanterns.

Psi (instant messaging client)

Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol (including such services as Google Talk) which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems), Windows, Mac OS X and eComStation (OS/2).

Ready-to-install deb and RPM packages are available for many Linux distributions. Successful ports of Psi were reported for Haiku,FreeBSD and Sun Solaris operating systems.

Due to Psi's free/open-source nature, several forks have appeared, which occasionally contain features that may appear in future official Psi versions. These official and unofficial builds are documented on their external wiki page.

Mission statement

The goal of the Psi project is to create a powerful, yet easy-to-use XMPP client that tries to strictly adhere to the XMPP drafts and XMPP XEPs. This means that in most cases, Psi will not implement a feature unless there is an accepted standard for it in the XMPP community. Doing so ensures that Psi will be compatible, stable, and predictable.