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ADAM HUGO, "...Because Of My Presence"

Brattus said:
Smoke alarms activate ONLY. They do not turn themselves off once the smoke is gone.
The only purpose a smoke alarm serves is to warn people that smoke is present.
The smoke alarm will continue to beep until the reset is hit or the batteries run out.
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I have a smoke detector in my unit which goes off when I burn toast. I simply open the windows, the smoke goes away, and the alarm turns off. No replacement of batteries necessary.

Norm
 
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rjh01 said:
Problem. If you use two smoke detectors one may be more sensitive than the other. So you need to run several tests each time swapping over the detectors.

But really post 67 says to me what supernatural ability he has ... none.
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You would think with his paranormal powers over clouds he could simply cause the clouds to spell out his name.
 
fromdownunder said:
I have a smoke detector in my unit which goes off when I burn toast. I simply open the windows, the smoke goes away, and the alarm goes off. No replacement of batteries necessary.

Norm
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Point taken. I was wrong about that. Sorry!
 
Brattus said:
Smoke alarms activate ONLY. They do not turn themselves off once the smoke is gone.
The only purpose a smoke alarm serves is to warn people that smoke is present.
The smoke alarm will continue to beep until the reset is hit or the batteries run out.
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Ummm, no. At least not for consumer models -- this is demonstrated pretty much every time Alex makes dinner.
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biomorph said:
actually thats a valid point....he does acknowledge the smoke will disappear, just that when he does it, its paranormal?

If that's your point, then yup. That's a little different than smoke does or does not disappear.
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What if it's all a setup? Maybe he really can control smoke alarms, and this is his backhanded way of winning the million. Pretty clever, huh?
 
UncaYimmy said:
What if it's all a setup? Maybe he really can control smoke alarms, and this is his backhanded way of winning the million. Pretty clever, huh?
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You know, I hadn't thought of that.

However you appear to have cottoned on to his dastardley scheme............so clever yes, just not clever enough.......lol:p
 
Challenge

I took the advice and went to http://www.iigwest.org/
they are offering to review the tape of clouds and then let me
know if I can try for their $50,000
in the meanwhile, I'm trying to test with JREF again, just need a good protocol.


Adam
 
protocols

There is some good ideas. One is making two tubes of smoke and only the win that wins a coin toss disappears. That would be easily done.
Its good logical thinking. But there is a problem.
The reason clouds disappear is because they are formed when water droplets gather in numbers enough to keep the sun from making the droplets water vapor, thus they become clouds. So, the reason they disappear is because I move the clouds so that they thin out and the sun evaporates them. I did this by flipping a coin and picking one of two clouds to disappear. Both didn't disappear, just the one that won the coin toss. I did this ten times in my preliminary challenge but only got 5 clouds to disappear out of 20. But the five that did disappear were the ones that won the coin toss, thus eliminating that chance made the clouds disappear. I would have to have gotten 7 out of 20 clouds to disappear, the guy that did my test told me, so that is why I didn't win the challenge.
I'll continue in next post...
 
smoke

The problem with making smoke disappear is why it disappears. It would have to made of water droplets to work the same way. I was actually thinking that I could make smoke that is moving in a straight up direction
set off a detector that is at a right angle of it. So, all I would do is move the smoke 90 degrees, not make it disappear. To prove that it is paranormal, I could do 7 out 20 that were chosen by a coin toss. Genius idea! Before arguing the value of a test, remember that the 13 out of 20 would remain normal, that is, in line heading upwads, like smoke usually does.
Adam
 
Skeptics love to jump through hoops to try to get a claimant to jump through just one hoop. You don't need suggestions for a protocol at this point. In fact you don't even need suggestions for a reasonable self-test. What you need to do is, well, anything that you think demonstrates your ability. Hypothetical experiments are a waste of time. Go do something even if it is just with rudimentary controls that are not sufficient for a real test. Repeat it a number of times and track your results.

When you've done that, come back here and make a report. I, for one, will be glad to then assist you in determining if anything paranormal is going on and offer suggestions for better controls. Until, how about we avoid the inevitable merry-go-round of all the things you think you could do but haven't actually tried?
 
UncaYimmy said:
Hypothetical experiments are a waste of time. Go do something even if it is just with rudimentary controls that are not sufficient for a real test. Repeat it a number of times and track your results.
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My sentiments exactly. You don't need a theory, or a "cause" (the IIG has no interest in that anyway) -- you just need an "effect".

There are plenty of simple things you could set up and try in your own home, just to see what reliably occurs (or doesn't) and refine from there.

How about a tea pot or a vaporizer in a sealed room? Use a lamp to "backlight" the vapor so you can see it with the naked eye. Stand perfectly still across the room, wait 30 seconds (for air currents to die down) and see if you can move the vapor in some idiosyncratic way. If you can effect clouds a mile overhead you should be able to make something interesting happen to that steam from across the room.
 
supernaturalbeing said:
the link to a video I made of the supernatural cloud busting...
only 40mb
the first one I got impatient, but the second one you'll watch twice...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n1mspz
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Adam, you were told time and time again that cloudbusting is neither accepted for the MDC nor is it to be considered paranormal, since there are a number of way more likely explanations for it:

1. Wind.
2. Wind.
3. Wind.

Good day Adam. I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
 
This section of the forum is for discussing the million dollar challenge. Since it has been made clear that cloudbusting is not eligible for the challenge, any discussion about it should be taken to a more appropriate section, such as General Skepticism or Science.
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Cuddles
 
Hi Adam, do you have any update on the lottery thing? Have you abandoned that? You said that it cost you a lot of money to do it, but there's no reason for you to spend any money at all. Just choose a lottery and tell us what the numbers are going to be before they are drawn. From what I can tell, you claim to be able to pick winning lottery numbers at a far greater rate than could be done by chance. If you can consistently show that that is true, then I'm sure that everybody could have a much more productive discussion. People want to see something concrete.

You said something earlier about only being able to pick 2 out of 3. Come here and post those 2 before the draw is made.
 
Adam had this opportunity. He failed to even post the numbers.

After his no-show, he did not show up on the forum for two months. After that: Excuses, more talk about cloudbusting, videos galore but no prediction of lottery numbers or anything concrete.
 
lottery numbers

The theory I posted is real simple, the facts are:
* a friend and I did pick threes for a week in NYC, we got all the numbers correctly
*my friend says that it is nearly impossible for a him to help me with this and continue to be accurate
*I emailed the numbers to my ex girlfriend in NYC from SC., She didn't buy tickets and concluded that she didn't want to perticipate so we ended our trials.
*at the time SC didn't have a lottery

okay....

before we did this, I already new that I could do this with a laptop, the trick being that it works with any recorded media...complex but true

so, the toll it takes on people wouldn't be worth the little bit of money I could get out of it.

I know if setup recorded media, i.e. the laptop, I could make plenty of money without any hardship.

The problem is that somehow I can't find the opportunity to do this simple thing...this theory.

Just a month ago, they towed my car that was legally parked, and of course it had alot of time and money invested in to so that I could eventually continue this project. So, its not that there is something wrong with me but it proves that I have to invest alot of money. I had about $9000 in the car. I can't pay the $700 towing charge. I'm going to take them to court, that will cost $300 to try to get it back.
 
supernaturalbeing said:
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so, the toll it takes on people wouldn't be worth the little bit of money I could get out of it.
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This has been explained many times, but I'll give it one more go. You don't have to actually buy the lottery tickets. You just have to posts the numbers before the drawing. If you can perform that feat better than chance, you could walk away with one-million dollars.
 
supernaturalbeing said:
The theory I posted is real simple, the facts are:
* a friend and I did pick threes for a week in NYC, we got all the numbers correctly
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I should just walk away from this post, but the ridiculousness of this claim just bugs me. NY pick three pays $500 for a correct number. That means if you spent one dollar on the first day, you would have won $500. If you used all $500 on the second day you would have had $250,000. If you bet all that money, on the third day you would have had $125,000,000.

4th day = $62,500,000,000
5th day = $31.250 trillion
6th day = $15.625 quadrillion
7th day = $7.812 quintillion

You claim you "did pick threes for a week in NYC, we got all the numbers correct."
Ya Shure, go ahead and pull the other leg.

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footnote, the odds of getting the pick three right on any single drawing is 1000 to 1.


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ETA: I am assuming that you selected only one pick-three drawing each day. The NY state lottery offers a midday and an evening drawing for their pick-three game. If you got both drawings correct for seven consecutive days then your winnings would be 500^14.
 
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Okay

I see how people come up with ridicilous numbers. If I invested the whole $500 dollars winning into the next days numbers then I would make more money. But, first they're not going to print 500 tickets for you. That would probably take hours. Second, they would get suspicious after a couple of drawings if I buy that many tickets(the lottery commission). But I get the point, if I buy multible tickets that increases my winnings. Hadn't thought of that, I was mostly concerned about the procedure.
 
There is generally a cap on total paid winnings for most lotteries, where if all of the players win more than that, the cap amount is paid instead split among the winning players (in a ratio of what they would have won realative to one another commonly).

I'm unfamiliar with how long they spend printing a lottery ticket, but at 10 seconds per ticket 500 tickets would take 5000 seconds, or between 1-2 hours. If it's worth it to a ticket sale location to spend 10 seconds plus the time of the purchase to earn $1, I would think they'd be more than happy to spend 5000 seconds plus the time of just one purchase to earn $500.

The lottery folks may become suspicious, just as anyone would become suspicious if they encountered the results of a clearly paranormal event. It's kind of accepted that if you're going to explore the paranormal and share your results, that people will notice something unusual.
 
Here is an alternative to buying tatts tickets.
1. Publish them here every week a day or so before the draw.
2. Many people buy tickets with these numbers.
3. These numbers win.
4. The prize is so small for several weeks as to raise alarm.
5. This site gets massive media coverage.
 
supernaturalbeing said:
I see how people come up with ridicilous numbers.
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I didn't come up with the ridiculous numbers. You came up with the ridiculous numbers when you claimed you predicted seven consecutive pick-threes. I was just illustrating how outlandish your claim was.

The odds of doing that are so astronomical that your hypothetical winnings dwarf the entire monetary supply of the world.

The chances of that occurring through non-supernatural means is 1 in 1 sextillion. Even the name doesn't give enough to fully understand how preposterously large that number is. Let me type it out 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

I have no idea whether you are a amatuer liar, a professional liar, a compulsive liar, or simply someone suffering from a mental illness. All I know is that truth value of post #101 is zero.



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supernaturalbeing said:
But, first they're not going to print 500 tickets for you.
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You don't have to buy 500 tickets, NY state's pick-three game allows you to wager more than one dollar on a ticket.


ETA: my bad. I was wrong. The maximum bet per ticket is $1.
 
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Hello,
I'm back.

Here's my lottery stats...

I played the 3 pick in NYC and won all 5 times I played.
I played the Florida 5 pick (my brother helped) we got 4 out of 5. You would think it was worth thousands...but we only got 8 dollars.
I played the Georgia multi million and out 4 out of 6 numbers right the other 2 numbers were off by only a couple of numbers each.
In horse racing I manage to double my investments but its less than $100.
I'm now living in Texas. Will try their lotteries when I get a chance.

I know...why not keep making a little bit of money and it will eventually add up...
Well, I've talked about this before.
Each event requires investment.
Time...I write about science stuff. So I have to spend alot of time studing and writing. I can't take time off until the stuff is finished because its so complex. It takes alot of time to make what little money I have to pay for cellphone and other bills.
Money...I'm disabled so not very much income. These lotteries require money in the form of supplies and people to help me do the stuff.
Lots patience. I can't just pick numbers one after the other. I have to invest a month for each try.

Other than that I have a good track record. I have close friends that know about how lucky I am. Of course, I have thousands of friends cause I'm very popular...but no one wants to work for free. That seems to be the quickest and easiest way to finally win something big.
 
This stuff is worth more than all the money in the world...
If I had enough investment I could just gamble on stocks...and of course win.
Then who's the joker then...
 
supernaturalbeing said:
Hello,
I'm back.

Here's my lottery stats...
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Ok, would you be willing to put your skills to a test we can all verify? For example, you could repeat the five Pick-3 trials, but post your picks here before the Lottery selects the actual numbers.

I can understand if you'd prefer not to expose your picks before each event, so I'll offer an alternative: Post a reliable "hash" of your picks; then we can all verify your picks after the fact.

Here is a link to a decent MD5 hash generator. Here's how it might work. You might post in this thread: 2bd1760a3c6d4bac774766b96d441043. No one here can deduce what text you used to generate that hash, but after the Pick-3 event is completed, you can reveal the text as "02/07/2013: 3 4 5 sdfsdfsad", meaning your Pick-3 pick was 345 for the 02/07 draw. (The "sdfsdfsad" is just random text you'd add to the end so we cannot deduce your picks by trial and error.)

Are you willing to put your skills to a verifiable test?
 
supernaturalbeing said:
Hello,
I'm back.

Here's my lottery stats...

I played the 3 pick in NYC and won all 5 times I played.
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Welcome back.

Discussions on skeptic boards never get very far unless specific terms are clearly defined. When you played the pick-3 game in NYC, can you tell us precisely how much you wagered and precisely how much you won?

ETA: Also, would you describe the type(s) of bets you were making? Straight play, Box play, Combination play, etc.​

I ask the question because I used to work with a woman who frequently bragged about how often she would win the daily lottery. I later found out that many of her "wins" involved $50 of wagers producing $20 in prizes. Her definition of winning the lottery was very different from my definition of winning the lottery.
 
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supernaturalbeing said:
I played the Georgia multi million and out 4 out of 6 numbers right the other 2 numbers were off by only a couple of numbers each.
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Suppose a lottery draw is 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Which of these picks is closer to winning?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5
5, 35, 36, 37, 38

Neither. There is no such thing as "off by a couple of numbers".
 
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Almo said:
Suppose a lottery draw is 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Which of these picks is closer to winning?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5
5, 35, 36, 37, 38

Neither. There is no such thing as "off by a couple of numbers".
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Yeah but I got three numbers actually correct.
And I only played that lottery once...not 10 or a hundred times...
 
Okay I will post some lottery stuff.
The date of posting will validate the time frames, and a link to the offical lottery results will validate the winning numbers. The winning numbers will come up a week or two after I post my "guess" of winning numbers. This is because I may not be playing the next avialable lottery but one within a week or two of posting. Also, I don't need to worry about somebody "stealing" the numbers, because there are sooo many lotteries. Mine will be from Texas.
 
supernaturalbeing said:
Okay I will post some lottery stuff.
The date of posting will validate the time frames, and a link to the offical lottery results will validate the winning numbers. The winning numbers will come up a week or two after I post my "guess" of winning numbers. This is because I may not be playing the next avialable lottery but one within a week or two of posting. Also, I don't need to worry about somebody "stealing" the numbers, because there are sooo many lotteries. Mine will be from Texas.
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A week or two? How about three? Maybe 4? You do realize that if you're trying to get 3 numbers (say out of a 6 or 7 ball draw), you're simply multiplying your chances of guessing correctly.

Can you state your exact intent, please?
How many numbers are in the Texas draw?
How many are you going to pick? All of them, or as above are you trying for three and then hoping for two so that you can say you were close.
What's the time limit? As mentioned above, the odds increase that you get a low number of them correct with each ensuing draw.

(My wife played the Hong Kong Mark VI Lottery twice a week for years and quite often got 2 out of 7 (of 49 possible numbers). They don't even pay out for 2; it's not that uncommon.)
 
Your posts here date back more than 3 years claiming to be able to guess the winning lottery numbers yet not even once did you post any guess a day before the drawing. Just a day, not more. Do it now. Stop wasting our time. You claim to have special powers so stop talking about your ex-girlfriend, your brother and your friend who helped you. Give us the numbers for the next drawing. That's all.
 
yairhol said:
Your posts here date back more than 3 years claiming to be able to guess the winning lottery numbers yet not even once did you post any guess a day before the drawing. Just a day, not more. Do it now. Stop wasting our time. You claim to have special powers so stop talking about your ex-girlfriend, your brother and your friend who helped you. Give us the numbers for the next drawing. That's all.
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Well, to be fair to Supernaturalbeing, perhaps his power is not that precise. Perhaps the ritual/calculations/premonitions simply say these six numbers are going to appear as a group sometime in the next six draws. I have no problem with a paranormal power being that imprecise - even if it worked at that level, one would still become a multimillionaire in less than a month.

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That being said...


supernaturalbeing said:
I played the 3 pick in NYC and won all 5 times I played.
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Ladewig said:
Welcome back.

Discussions on skeptic boards never get very far unless specific terms are clearly defined. When you played the pick-3 game in NYC, can you tell us precisely how much you wagered and precisely how much you won?

ETA: Also, would you describe the type(s) of bets you were making? Straight play, Box play, Combination play, etc.​
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...until I get an answer to this question, I am going to have to consider the very real possibility that our distinguished colleague is nothing more than a BS artist. Or as they might say in Texas, all hat and no cattle.

So how about it: how much did you wager and how much did you win when you allegedly " played the 3 pick in NYC and won all 5 times"?
 
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