Sterling and All,
Calling him a 'dowser' is being 'kind', as I think
dowsing has produced some desirable results,
but I think you are technically correct.
Mr. Yokum listed a batch of suspect meteorites
(on eBay 5-6 years ago) located with said machine .
I contacted him at that time.
Mr. Yokum has a vision and he does not let
little things like facts deter it. He sent a sample to
UCLA and was told it was not a meteorite.
He sent a sample to me and I told him the same.
Chunks purchased by others have appeared on eBay
since then. The most controversial listing was by a List member
that admittedly purchased 500 lbs. The sad part is
I phoned this seller and told him that I had a sample
of the same exact material he was selling and
I told him that it was not a meteorite. He assured me that
his items were different and contained much nickel-iron.
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/2255992757.htm
This is the follow-up auction that revealed the truth about
the metal content and the character of the seller:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/2260392588.htm
A year later, the same seller still claiming "an internal
appearance similar to that of Dronino - a high-nickel-content iron
meteorite" unloaded much more of the same on eBay:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/6562295908.pdf
Best,
Ken Newton
http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/updates.html
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
Hi, List,
He's a dowser! Gee, I haven't seen or heard of
a dowser at work for 50 years. Most dowsing was
for water, though, to find the proper location to dig
a well. I once lived in a farmhouse property where
they had a dowser "dowse" for the best well location
before they built the house.
After the dowser picked the best spot for a well,
the well-driller set up his rig and commenced. This was
in an area where wells usually "came in" between 20
and 30 feet. At 40-odd feet, the driller pointed out that
they were virtually certain to hit water in the next ten feet,
so it would actually cost the landowner more to chose
another drill site and start over with a new well.
They let the drilling continue in the same spot, and
had the same argument with the driller every ten feet or
so, until at 87 feet, they hit water at last, at three times
the average depth for the region (and about five times
the usual drilling cost).
Now confident that they had a reliable source of
water, the owners commenced the construction of their
house at a spot about 25 feet from the well site. They
began to dig out the basement, but at a depth of only
45 INCHES, they hit a "blind spring," which continued
to flow a respectible stream of water despite all their
many efforts to shut it down.
When I lived there fifty years later, the spring in
the basement was still flowing --- out a pipe in the
concrete floor that carried the spring water down to
the roadside ditch to drain away, and we drank the
water from the 87-foot-deep "dowsed" well.
I always thought of that well as a memorial to the
"efficacy" of dowsing, but $2800 for an electronic
"dowsing machine" is an truly enterprising fraud. I
wonder if Yokum's gadget will find water? I will say
this for the expensive "dowsed" well, though: it was
really good water.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:16:57 -0800, you wrote:
Nut or not, I think it's inspiring that a man of that age is off his "rusty
dusty" looking around.
With a little research, I see that the guy in the article isn't just some
old
fool who fell for the fraudulent technology-- he's the guy selling it. So
he
suckered some newspaper reporter into marketing his product for him.
http://geotech.thunting.com/cgi-bin/pages/common/index.pl?page=lrl&file=reports/omnirange/index.dat
http://www.thunting.com/geotech/forums/archive/index.php/t-11590.html
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