Thanks for the heads-up, Martin.
That's a nifty new feature.
Linton
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From: "karmaka"
To:
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 3:22 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] New data visualization tool available in the EoM
Hello everybody
There is a nice new data visualization too
If the devices seem to work for the Iraqi's, I can propose
a simpler explanation for why the worthless wands do
anything at all.
What they do is make those with good reason to not
want to be stopped and especially not to be searched
nervous, because even the best-educated terrorist
probably belie
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:28:06 -0600, you wrote:
>Just as the active software on a laptop limits powerfully the possible
>offerings of the global In
Just as the active software on a laptop limits powerfully the possible
offerings of the global Internet, strongly held personal beliefs and habits
of conscious experience strongly limit the field of awareness and the range
of acceptible experience.
Thus, skeptics re the paranormal refrain from
As a psychic and mystic, independent of conceptual historical frameworks, I
mention now, this very present moment in which your awareness automatically
translates these little crooked black and white marks into le t t te
r s into wo r d s with complex meanings, who has scanned ma
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:10:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>The closest thing I've seen was broadcast on TV over a decade ago, which I
>think originally aired in Australia. It was a supposed double-blind experiment
>run by none other than Randy himself.
I think I may have stumbled on the video you a
Hello Lister,
I wonder what would happen if I was watching Meteorite Men and all of a sudden
the show is interrupted by the emergency broad cast system.
Residence of SLC Utah a meteor the size of Manhattan with a diameter estimated
to be about 3 miles has hit down town LA.. THIS IS WHAT CO
OH MY GOD!! We need a meteorite fall somewhere, NOW!!
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--- On Sun, 10/17/10, Michael Fowler wrote:
> From: Michael Fowler
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are
> dubious?!
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Cc:
Phil,
Am I missing something here? You say the devices work at detecting bombs in
Iraq. I suppose that means that no more bombs are getting by Iraqi
checkpoints.
I wonder do we live in the same world?
Mike Fowler
PS It's not so much a matter of doubting the dowsers, as being amazed at
Herr Whitmer amd List,
The great minds, even Copernicus, had their seminal beginnings in Baltic
Germania. From whence came the Kingdom of Poland.
Best regards,
Count Deiro
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>From: JoshuaTreeMuseum
>Sent: Oct 17, 2010 4:00 PM
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Ok I just read the wikipedia article, I guess all those police and military
people really are that dumb. That thing's not even a dowsing rod. I like
the part where you insert the programmable card. Wow, the Indians, Thais,
Saudis, Mexicans, Belgians, etc. must be incredibly dumb. All I know i
The Mom Copernici was named Barbara Watzenrode.
With the Second Peace of Torun in 1466, the town Torun became part of the
Polish Empire, Copernicus was born in 1473.
Since eternities German and Polish nationalists are arguing, whether
Copernicus was Polish or German
(and with the Americans whether
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Hi Mike,
I think the point of the article is relevant to what's being discussed
here. People that know for scientific reasons that dowsing doesn't work,
can't dowse because it won't work for them. Dowsing only works for the
ignorant like myself and dumb construction workers and plumbers. The Ir
Mike, on that note, dowsing is fraud.
"In January 2010, export of the device to Iraq and Afghanistan was
banned by the British Government and the managing director of ATSC was
arrested on suspicion of fraud,[2] and in June 2010 several other
companies were raided by British police.[3]"
From
Rob Matson wrote:
By the way, the Journal of Scientific Exploration is hardly a "real
journal",
so citing it as evidence for the reality of dowsing is a bit of a circular
argument. Most of the members are strong believers in the reality of ESP,
astrology, psychokinesis, reincarnation, and similar
Sorry, I've met Randi on several occasions, and I can assure you he is no
fraud, and he is pulling no cons. He is well respected by those who seek to
keep pseudoscience in check.
I'm hardly impugning the German people. I'm simply pointing out, as somebody
who lived there for a while, that Germ
Einstein was born in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, part of the German Empire
at the time. Copernicus was born in Royal Prussia, Part of the Polish
Empire.
Phil Whitmer
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You're seriously impugning the German people, the smartest folks on the
planet? Do the names of Nicola
Hello lists, with my new Bresser microscope I have detected a structure in
metalflakes which I can not explain. Has any one seen such a structure in
meteorites or documentation where it is explalned?
Look at
http://s345.photobucket.com/albums/p384/m42protosun/Bubble%20iron/
m42protosun
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>>You're seriously impugning the German people, the smartest folks on the
planet? Do the names of Nicolaus Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Werner von
Braun, Werner Heisenberg, Hermann Helmholtz, Max Planck, Wilhelm C.
Röntgen,
Heinrich R. Hertz, Karl Benz & Gottlieb Daimler, Nikolaus August
All the better, I'm half Polish, half German!
Phil Whitmer
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You're seriously impugning the German people, the smartest folks on the
planet? Do the names of Nicolaus Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Werner von
Braun, Werner Heisenberg, Hermann Helmholtz, Max Planc
>>You're seriously impugning the German people, the smartest folks on the
planet? Do the names of Nicolaus Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Werner von
Braun, Werner Heisenberg, Hermann Helmholtz, Max Planck, Wilhelm C.
Röntgen,
Heinrich R. Hertz, Karl Benz & Gottlieb Daimler, Nikolaus Augus
They cut the trees at new moon only, Martin, 'cause nothing can fall down
from an invisible thing to get under a terranean saw.
Best, Matthias
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From: "Martin Altmann"
To:
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Einstein on dows
Those pictures look computer enhanced (photo-shopped) to me, I was thinking
more along the lines of something like this:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html
You know, real pictures.
Phil Whitmer
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I'm going to need to see
Rob,
I have it on good authority, dowsing is real.
"According to the New York Times, more than fifteen hundred remote
sensing devices have been sold to Iraq's Ministry of the Interior, at
prices ranging from $16,500 to $60,000 each. The devices are used for
bomb and weapon detection at checkpoint
Chris;
You're losing a lot of credibility when you publicly admit that you've
fallen for the con of the Amazing Randi. Do some research, the guy's a
fraud:
http://torbjornsassersson.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/james-randi-and-his-one-million-dollar-challenge-fraud/
Essentially he was a washed up
Yes, cause we in Germany are sometimes more practically thinking, hehe.
(That's why we never will have a meteorite law...).
Folks, it's a little bit funny,
when I follow that thread, I get the impression, that some think, that
Einstein was once fallen from sky,
as an inerrant saint.
(Though I conf
I'm going to need to see a visible light photograph of an exoplanet to
confirm their existence.
Here it is:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015105935.htm
Next? Will the next in line please step forward?
Sterling K. Webb
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Hello everybody
There is a nice new data visualization tool available in the Encyclopedia of
Meteorites.
Try it out:
http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/DataVisualization.aspx
Thank you on behalf of all of us, Sergey !!!
Keep up the good work
Best
Martin
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:07:25 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm going to need to see a visible light photograph of an exoplanet to
>confirm their existence.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015105935.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/21025/hubble-take-first-visible-light-image-of-extrasolar-
Dean,
EXACTLY this experiment has been performed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAasVXtCOI
or as near as makes no difference. Every dowser
failed the test. (This URL was posted to the List
at the beginning of this kerfluffle by Darren
Garrison.)
Sterling K. Webb
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I'm going to need to see a visible light photograph of an exoplanet to
confirm their existence. Ditto for black holes. ;)
But then again, people believe in all kinds of things that are not
supported by evidence. You just have to really want to believe it:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/d
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:18:14 -0700, you wrote:
>would be personal unfamiliarity with the rather bullet-proof science.
That would not suprise me in the slightest after reading this:
"I don't pretend to understand how this phenomenon
works, any more than I understand how the dynamo at the Earth's
By the way, the Journal of Scientific Exploration is hardly a "real
journal",
so citing it as evidence for the reality of dowsing is a bit of a circular
argument. Most of the members are strong believers in the reality of ESP,
astrology, psychokinesis, reincarnation, and similar topics, so the natu
Rather than just repeat what can be found elsewhere, I'd suggest you start
with the Wikipedia entry on dowsing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing ,
which has some excellent references to negative evidence, as well as some
references explaining Betz's poor technique.
A PhD does not automatic
Hi Phil,
> Your last statement is not true. It's very hard to find scientific
> studies involving anything even remotely connected to the "paranormal"
> (gasp!). Look into the German studies cited here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ADowsing
I read that abstract earlier in the week. If the
It's interesting yes... The simple question "...have they been handed in
for study/classification..." is scary...
It's counter productive to science to require people to "turn over"
meteorites to the state. Why should they? Because the state "needs"
them? Because meteorite hunters don't "need"
Chris:
I'm citing a 10-year study sponsored by the German Government conducted by
Dr. Hans-Dieter Betz of the Dep't of Physics at Munich that was published in
Stanford University's peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration. And
you're citing.(drum roll pleasecue up the kl
Rob,
Your last statement is not true. It's very hard to find scientific
studies involving anything even remotely connected to the "paranormal"
(gasp!).
Except in Russia serious scientists won't even consider studying such
tomfoolery. There are a few studies, you have to dig deep to find them.
Lo
No. It is a reasonable assumption based on solid science and on past
experience. I didn't say the result was guaranteed. Scientifically, we can
prove nothing. But that doesn't mean that all ideas are of equal merit or
weight. It is perfectly rational to assume outcomes based on previous
knowled
Yeah? I "guess" that's scientific huh?
Eric
On 10/17/2010 12:39 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
I think we can all pretty much guess what those results will be.
Chris
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:28:13 -0700, you wrote:
>
>When people say they believe in dowsing, what they are really
>saying is that they believe in a human sixth sense -- for instance,
>the ability to detect minute fluctuations in electromagnetic
>fields.
An interesting side note is that recent studie
That would be a horrible experiment. It is already established that dowsing
works because the operator of the rods knows where the object of his search
is. Using dowsing rods to "confirm" a find would be useless, prove nothing,
and be misleading to the large number of people who are largely clue
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Hi Jeffrey,
> I'm skeptical that Einstein ever said this. I have just searched
> the Einstein archive at
> http://www.alberteinstein.info/
> for the word "dowsing" and did not find a single hit.
> Maybe he said it, but without a real citation with date and page
> number, or a facsimile of the l
This is a no-nonsense website:
http://www.constructionwork.com/resources_details_divining_rods.html
I don't see why this wouldn't work for locating buried iron meteorites.
I would like to see Steve Arnold try this. After locating a buried iron
meteorite by conventional methods, all Steve would
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I'm with you on the skepticism. I didn't believe it at first either. It
takes a bit more research than just scanning a single archive to uncover
information. Einstein is making the statement in regard to a form of
diagnostical "health dowsing", an area I think is pretty bogus. I was
dissapoi
Would be interesting to know what happened to those irons found in
Australia? knowing what the laws are nowhave they been handed
in for study/classificationor just disappeared
mysteriouslyanyone know the finder of more about the story?
Jeff?
They look much younger than Henbury wit
Anyone wanna talk about meteorites? ;) Seems someone found a couple...
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On 10/16/2010 10:22 PM, Meteorites USA wrote:
Another one... this time BIGGER! Strewnfield?
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6dDtPekzQ
Geoff and Steve were in Australia just recently. Hmmm...
On 10/16/2010 10:15 PM,
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:09:09 -0400, you wrote:
>Darren,
>How is posting some flakey links and making lame jokes an intelligent
>argument? Is that really the best you got? You do know what a debate is
>right? You're acting like a 12 year old. (not that there's anything wrong
>with that.) I mean
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:02:17 -0400, you wrote:
>Eric,
>That's ok. This is all just good fun, it's nothing personal. When you're
>arguing from a position of ignorance and basically don't know what you're
>talking about, you have to resort to ridicule. When you have no factual
>information to bac
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> From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum"
>
> I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of
> superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The
> dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human
> nervous system to certain factors which
Excellent site Doneverything one needs all in one site...or a link
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Cheers,
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On 17 October 2010 03:27, Don Merchant wrote:
> Hi List. I apologize that I have been away off the list for a long time. The
> reason is I decided to fulfill a long aw
Greetings listees,
When wood is used for dowsing it typically is fresh cut from a green
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I agree with the naysayers- I do not have much faith in the technique.
We have a ra
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Darren,
How is posting some flakey links and making lame jokes an intelligent
argument? Is that really the best you got? You do know what a debate is
right? You're acting like a 12 year old. (not that there's anything wrong
with that.) I mean come on, my posts have footnotes for chrissakes!
P
OK, here is what needs to be done.
(1) Get 10 non see through buckets that wont even show shadows.
(2) Get ten items. A couple meteorites, toys, other crystals etc
(3) Make sure that the person with the dowsing rod knows exactly what all the
items are like so that he/she can properly view them an
Eric,
That's ok. This is all just good fun, it's nothing personal. When you're
arguing from a position of ignorance and basically don't know what you're
talking about, you have to resort to ridicule. When you have no factual
information to back up your argument, the only thing you can do is mak
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