North Texas Paranormal Researchers has finally reached a verdict on my tape.
They will publish the results in May at their website. They told me they want another tape just to make sure before they test me for $10,000.
Are these the guys?
http://www.ntskeptics.org/
They have a $12,000 challenge. I'm afraid they aren't likely to judge your tapes to be paranormal either....
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0v2cwu
My first link had alot of garbage on it.
This one is the complete couple hours of taping with no breaks.
Pretty Awesome.
the link to the avi
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uxtgbw
Is anyone still reading these posts...I can update the information on them, maybe some new evidence or something...
Three plus years. Wow.
Sorry, Adam. You screwed the pooch earlier this millenium when you were nowhere to be found to predict your lotto numbers. You had your chance.
Is anyone still reading these posts...I can update the information on them, maybe some new evidence or something...
I'm back. Feels swell.
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Adam, do you intend to apply for JREF Challenge, although cloudbusting claims won't get accepted?
Do you have a link to the sCAM discussion? I looked at a couple of the newsletters and could not find anything.Looking at some of the back issues of their newsletter, I'm wondering just how "skeptical these North Texas Skeptics are. Among other things, they appear to fully endorse sCAM. I think their skepticism may be quite narrowly defined.
M.
Do you have a link to the sCAM discussion? I looked at a couple of the newsletters and could not find anything.
Thanks,
CT
I'll have to retract what I wrote since I can't find the page I recall seeing. It featured an ad for a sCAM shop opening up in town, and elsewhere what seemed like a pro-sCAM discussion. Maybe it was on a linked site and had nothing to do with NTS. Sorry.
M.
That's what you get for wandering around the internet unprotected.
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Adam, do you intend to apply for JREF Challenge, although cloudbusting claims won't get accepted?
Hey,
I would apply again for the challenge but they said that they don't do cloud busting though.
Are (or were) these the facts, that inform you you are a supernatural being?I'm working on this task.
I've got a laptop now.
Got a good job.
Girlfriend.
Haven't been able to post for a while, I guess cause they're upgrading there computers.
I found about ten millions dollars worth of money they are giving away for paranormal stuff.
I was able to do 2 out of three numbers for the New York pick three for a week. That was a profit of $400 a day, buying one set of tickets.
Still got a while before I can setup and try again.
Adam
I'm going to retest but I need to figure something to do. They don't do the cloud busting. I'll have to think of something. How about...
the same thing with smoke and glass tubes....
I would stand behind a glass and if the smoke disappears then I win.
I guess the smoke would not have to disappear by itself to know it is paranormal.
I'm going to retest but I need to figure something to do. They don't do the cloud busting. I'll have to think of something. How about...
the same thing with smoke and glass tubes....
I would stand behind a glass and if the smoke disappears then I win.
I guess the smoke would not have to disappear by itself to know it is paranormal.
assuming it disappears at all.
try putting a smoke alarm detector in the (sealed) glass tube.
if you can stop the alarm and still works on the same batteries when reintroduced to smoke, that might give you some data.....
however smoke is not water vapor, as in clouds.
How do make the comparison, vis a vis?
Smoke disappears on its own. The airborne solid and liquid particles settle somewhere eventually. The gases should remain gases assuming the temperature and pressure are right and there are no nucleation sites.
Yes it does, so we time how long that takes to settle to get a standard to work from, cut the time in half (or whatever) and applicant must beat time. several times even...
I can still see some sceneario with party smoke generator, an alarmclock, smoke alarm unit several 600mm clear perspex tubes, and a number of persons wearing breathing apparatus.
Sounds like that firefighters party I went to the other night........lol
I think the idea would be to have enough smoke, and not enough time for it to settle, perhaps.
I sorta thought along those lines after I posted.
what do you think UncaYimmy ?
Honestly, I prefer not to come up with claims for people to make. From what I can gather he hasn't even tried to do it yet. It's hard to come up with a protocol without knowing the claim. And without the affidavits and press coverage, how do we know he actually thinks he can do it?
That said, you first need to decide when the smoke has cleared. It has to be self-evident, not an opinion. I'm assuming your smoke alarm is supposed to handle that, which brings up the issue of calibration.
no idea, perhaps not a lot.After that, how much data do you need to draw a baseline?
What's the guarantee that you can reproduce the conditions?
possibly, I cant take you on faith tho, I'm sure you understand. However you are probably right.Assuming you resolve all that, which you know the claimant is never gonna do,
I say you present two containers in each trial and have him do his mini-cloud busting on just one within a set time period. Lather, rinse, repeat.
true.
sure, I agree, calibration is probably a solveable issue tho, somehow....I admit to not having at the mo a calibration system already..lol
no idea, perhaps not a lot.
well, if testing smoke alarms isn't relatively reproducible, i dunno.
possibly, I cant take you on faith tho, I'm sure you understand. However you are probably right.
I dunno what the claiment might do. "Never" is a big word in a small dictionary.
I agree with you, i'm sorta trying to get him to self assess, not test.
If he can stop a basic smoke alarm in a simple way (vaguarities aside for the mo), hey, he's worth millions already, never mind the challange.
but yeh, perhaps i didn't ought to be encouraging fools to be fools..
I'm going to retest but I need to figure something to do. They don't do the cloud busting. I'll have to think of something. How about...
the same thing with smoke and glass tubes....
I would stand behind a glass and if the smoke disappears then I win.
I guess the smoke would not have to disappear by itself to know it is paranormal.
Dude never posted a thing about stopping smoke alarms.
He said he could stand behind glass and look at smoke on the other side of the glass untill it eventually dissipates.
Since this awesome feat could never be done by anyone else, he would get a million big ones.
That is his claim no stopping smoke alarms.
Dude never posted a thing about stopping smoke alarms.
He said he could stand behind glass and look at smoke on the other side of the glass untill it eventually dissipates.
Since this awesome feat could never be done by anyone else, he would get a million big ones.
That is his claim no stopping smoke alarms.
My understanding is that the alarm is just there to objectively measure whether or not the smoke disappears more quickly than if it just dissipates at a normal rate.
If he stops the smoke in one container, the alarm will (naturally) stop. Without something to objectively measure if the smoke has been "supernaturally" removed, you could end up with:
a: "Look, the smoke is gone."
b: "no it hasn't"
Norm
Smoke alarms activate ONLY. They do not turn themselves off once the smoke is gone.My understanding is that the alarm is just there to objectively measure whether or not the smoke disappears more quickly than if it just dissipates at a normal rate.
If he stops the smoke in one container, the alarm will (naturally) stop. Without something to objectively measure if the smoke has been "supernaturally" removed, you could end up with:
a: "Look, the smoke is gone."
b: "no it hasn't"
Norm