Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And many people are paid for performing grand illusions that > > cannot be exposed by observers in audience and live television. > > And who is going to pay Rossi for a hoax? This engineer will tell you > that none of us will be fooled. > Yeah! About those stage magicians: they only fool you because you are in the audience, not on stage. Put Terry on the stage for a few minutes, let him go behind the apparatus, and he will tell you how the trick works. Special effects in movies are blatantly obvious when you are on the sound stage, watching them film. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2001_CENTRIFUGE_SET.jpg Do you think anyone would mistake this for an actual space ship? This notion that "fakers" or "scammers" can fool engineers is silly. I been watching this business for nearly 20 years. I have heard of many scammers and met a few in person. They did not fool me or any other knowledgeable person. There are claims difficult to judge. There have been confused people, or people who had complicated machines that took time to understand. Especially the magnet machines. There are cold fusion experiments claiming effects close to the margin of error, such as 2% excess heat. That is hard to confirm or deny. Those are all a different story. Rossi's machine is dead simple from the point of view of calorimetry. Let's see a scammer or stage magician disconnect the power from a box with 30 L of boiling water, change out the water twice, and still have it boiling hot. Not gunna happen. As I have often said, it is a lot easier to find blatant, deliberate fraud than a subtle experimental error. Nature knows more ways to fool us than man will ever dream up. - Jed
