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delta88:
Not taking sides, just making fun comments:
"I saw "Earth is round and my eyes glazed over"
"Once I read the Earth revolves around the Sun I quite reading"
"They started taking about these magical xrays that could see your bones!!, Beware of scammers!"
:cheers: :laugh2: :lol
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 09, 2010, 01:44:08 am ---
In any case, my fallacy was reading Chariots of the Gods? at such a young age. It took years for the logic gears to finally start functioning properly.
--- End quote ---
HA! You too! I was probably about ten or so. The claims seemed so amazing. Another i fell for (a bit later, when i was experimenting with spirituality) was the Lobsang Rampa books. Penny dropped because of the author himself when the story finally brought him to England and how he came to have a different body.
Good lessons to learn.
If ever there were to be something perpetual in a man made device, it will not be electrical or mechanical. What Steorn are doing seems like just an elaborate electrical variation on the centuries of tricky weights and chains machines that came before. We should always be open minded, but if it has moving parts, it's not even worth a look in in my opinion and it can safely be assumed to not work...
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: delta88 on January 09, 2010, 07:57:13 am ---Not taking sides, just making fun comments:
"I saw "Earth is round and my eyes glazed over"
"Once I read the Earth revolves around the Sun I quite reading"
"They started taking about these magical xrays that could see your bones!!, Beware of scammers!"
:cheers: :laugh2: :lol
--- End quote ---
Not QUITE equivalent. A nearer analogy would be
"I saw 'water powered cars' and my eyes glazed over"
"Once i read that he was anally probed while aboard the UFO i quit reading"
"They started talking about the earth being hollow and that's where UFO's come from!! Beware of scammers!"
IF i read in december 1903 that some guys had flown an aircraft successfully, i would think "Finally, I'm glad America did it first" (If i was American). There is a context of understanding that it is plausible. If i had heard about the steam turbine a few decades earlier, i wouldnt have laughed. Most people would have said 'Oh, of course! Why didn't someone think of that earlier?'
And by the time I, as a layman, read about relativity I may not have understood it. But i wouldn't have laughed it out of existence because by the time i had heard about it, the theory had been PEER REVIEWED.
danny_galaga:
Ok, just watching one of the vids on Steorn. So far I'm confused because he is talking like back EMF in a MOTOR is a BAD thing ??? All i'm seeing right now is a very inefficient motor/generator :dunno
edit:
an appropriate quote from Wiki:
Barry Williams of the Australian Skeptics has pointed out that Steorn is "not the first company to claim they have suddenly discovered the miraculous property of magnetism that allows you to get free energy."
edit edit: Not that the penny was ever in the air for me, but here is the penny dropping moment, again from Wiki:
Many people have accused Steorn of engaging in a publicity stunt although Steorn deny such accusations.[17] Eric Berger, writing on the Houston Chronicle website, commented: "Steorn is a former e-business company that saw its market vanish during the dot.com bust. It stands to reason that Steorn has re-tooled as a Web marketing company, and is using the "free energy" promotion as a platform to show future clients how it can leverage print advertising and a slick Web site to promote their products and ideas."
mccoy178:
--- Quote from: delta88 on January 09, 2010, 07:57:13 am ---Not taking sides, just making fun comments:
"I saw "Earth is round and my eyes glazed over"
"Once I read the Earth revolves around the Sun I quite reading"
"They started taking about these magical xrays that could see your bones!!, Beware of scammers!"
:cheers: :laugh2: :lol
--- End quote ---
I think these are relevant quotes. Funny as hell too, I might add. :cheers:
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