Edge is back...LOL.
Where are you dredging? No, you don't have to tell us "specifically" because you wouldn't want anyone stealing your spot would you? Northern California, right?
I used to dredge the American River and some tributaries not far from Placerville. Lots of gold still up thar in them hills, right?
Come on back into the fold, Edge. As Tricky said, your fans are clamoring for more.
Where are you dredging? No, you don't have to tell us "specifically" because you wouldn't want anyone stealing your spot would you? Northern California, right?
I used to dredge the American River and some tributaries not far from Placerville. Lots of gold still up thar in them hills, right?
Come on back into the fold, Edge. As Tricky said, your fans are clamoring for more.
Spektator
Is that right?
Edge, please apply again for the challenge, then let us help you work out the protocol.
Second.
I'm reminded of a certain cartoon elephant who was certain he could never fly without his magic feather clutched in his trunk. But guess what? *nodnod* Yup.
[edit] And please do apply for the million. That's the mandatory first step. After that a protocol acceptable to both sides can be worked out.
Can you be more specific please, Edge?
Kenny 10 Bellys
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C'mon Edge, we've been hearing that for quite some time now. Get the finger out and make a serious application to the JREF and lets have at it. We're all dying to see what happens this time round, we really are. Prove to a skeptical world once and for all that your stick can detect precious metals at a distance.
In all seriousness, the forum regulars are always eager to help people with designing protocols that are both fair and relatively simple, and we will help you in any reasonable way we can to take the test, and maybe you'll win the $1,000,000 prize. It's got to be worth it if you are convinced of your powers.
Tricky said,
I have, 17 spots in a quarter mile section.
I bypassed the lower 7 and went for the first ten that where the better spots and cleaned them out.
Now that that part of the creek is done and I got the gold that was there I went to the 7 spots that had very little and by that I mean less than a quarter of penny weight or a half a penny weight a day.
Anything over a pennyweight a day starts becoming interesting.
My first ten spots produced about a quarter of an once and better per day for at least 40 days, now I have spent about 8 or 9 days checking the lesser spots and have hit about 7 of them.
I was right about them they weren’t worth doing, but they are the only spots left with gold, so I checked them and I was right about passing them up.
I'm on a tail of a bank I will spend 1 more day in this spot just to make sure that there's nothing there, even though the book knowledge says it should be.
I checked it months ago and so far I was right about passing them by.
You guys crack me up! All worried about how rich or poor I am, how smart or what I do for A LIVING.
I told you all a long time ago that I'm in the trades of construction, any of them, this is just the longest vacation I have ever had.
Three years of mining and being in Gods country.
I have a daughter that’s going to school to be a lawyer and yes I love pulling your strings.
I am ten for ten correct with my dredge and 7 out of 7 for locations that have gold in them but not enough to really dredge.
But you can't prove that they are not worth it unless you move the ground and see even though they were a loss to me, I had to know. Only because of you and to know for myself, Am I right or are you right. You see if you are right I might be passing on a good lode.
But lo and behold I was right, the spots I by passed where not worth it, dredging that is.
I'm about to come back to town in a day or two and ether stop dredging and take the challenge or hit the Trinity River and dredge there.
I'm going to print out the application today.
As soon as I can find it!
I have been living where the streets have no name OH Oh, where the streets have no name, my favorites.
Collective soul, “forces from the center of the earth I guess, I can feel it”., another one of my favorites.
I have, 17 spots in a quarter mile section.
I bypassed the lower 7 and went for the first ten that where the better spots and cleaned them out.
Now that that part of the creek is done and I got the gold that was there I went to the 7 spots that had very little and by that I mean less than a quarter of penny weight or a half a penny weight a day.
Anything over a pennyweight a day starts becoming interesting.
My first ten spots produced about a quarter of an once and better per day for at least 40 days, now I have spent about 8 or 9 days checking the lesser spots and have hit about 7 of them.
I was right about them they weren’t worth doing, but they are the only spots left with gold, so I checked them and I was right about passing them up.
I'm on a tail of a bank I will spend 1 more day in this spot just to make sure that there's nothing there, even though the book knowledge says it should be.
I checked it months ago and so far I was right about passing them by.
You guys crack me up! All worried about how rich or poor I am, how smart or what I do for A LIVING.
I told you all a long time ago that I'm in the trades of construction, any of them, this is just the longest vacation I have ever had.
Three years of mining and being in Gods country.
I have a daughter that’s going to school to be a lawyer and yes I love pulling your strings.
I am ten for ten correct with my dredge and 7 out of 7 for locations that have gold in them but not enough to really dredge.
But you can't prove that they are not worth it unless you move the ground and see even though they were a loss to me, I had to know. Only because of you and to know for myself, Am I right or are you right. You see if you are right I might be passing on a good lode.
But lo and behold I was right, the spots I by passed where not worth it, dredging that is.
I'm about to come back to town in a day or two and ether stop dredging and take the challenge or hit the Trinity River and dredge there.
I'm going to print out the application today.
As soon as I can find it!
I have been living where the streets have no name OH Oh, where the streets have no name, my favorites.
Collective soul, “forces from the center of the earth I guess, I can feel it”., another one of my favorites.
Psiload
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1/4 of an ounce of gold per day? That's like $150 per day at current gold prices. And that's a good day?
I sure hope you're enjoying your "vacation", because it sounds like you could make more actual money flipping burgers. You wouldn't have to invest in a shovel and a mule, and It'd probably be a lot easier on your back to boot.
Thanks to the HBO series Deadwood (I love that show), I now know how to properly classify edge.
You, sir, are a hooplehead.
Edited to add...
Holey moley! edge considers anything over a pennyweight per day to be "interesting". A pennyweight is about 1.5 grams. Being generous with the conversions... we're talking like $20/day worth of gold. Twenty bucks for a day of backbreaking labor is "interesting"?
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I consider your "ten for ten correct" and "seven for seven" very unlikely. It smells of cooking books. Again, no offense.
However, I would gladly be proven wrong in an actual controlled test. If you have trouble finding your application, edge, here's a helpful link: http://www.randi.org/research/challenge.html
Should you apply properly - that means including a reasonable basic protocol to your claim letter - we the Forum Members will help you to the best of our abilities. I very much doubt that anyone in their right mind would want you to fail.
Edge, I hope you're not running to stand still.
But then of course, even if it's true, it only demonstrates that Edge knows where to find small amounts of gold in a stream bed. That can be done quite easily without the aid of a magic stick.
Interesting question, a little hard to answer satisfactory. Ask this in the "General Skepticism" forum and the thread will bulge with speculations and other yada³.
The important question seems: How do we efficiently present dowsing results achieved in a controlled setting to the public?
Perhaps this myth needs to get busted on a regular basis. Busted! And again. Busted! And again.
Tricky
Briefly immortal
You still haven't told us how you do this. Do you spend the same amount of time on the places with poor dowsing responses as you do on the ones with good responses? Though it might seem a waste of time to you, it is the only way to evaluate them fairly.
And you are now quite wealthy, right?
Yeah, it's a great life. Live out of a tent. Work your butt off all day. You make it sound so wonderful. But if you really could dowse for gold, you could still enjoy your bucolic pleasures but have a little spare money for those times when you want to sleep in a real bed.
Are you helping pay for your daughter's education?
Pulling our strings, are you? Well, the best way to do that would be to win the Randi Challenge. That would pull them good.
If you are right, then you can prove it. Your diary, interesting though it is, is not particularly convincing. You were a total washout the first time you tried to convince us. You haven't even tried the test again, though you've had plenty of time to prepare. October is coming and that means excuse time. Are you going to chicken out again?
I'll believe it when I see it. You've already had it pointed out to you (again and again and again.) But printing it out is not useful unless you FILL it out and send it in. Many here have offered to help you with the difficult parts. Since you were willing to lie in order to get a chance to try for the million the first time, I can't guess what is holding you up when you are so sure of success this time.
Or are you not that sure? I know you will never admit it, but I suspect that deep down inside, you know you are a charlatan and you don't want that exposed to the world... again.
nathan
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An old man is walking with a younger man. The old man has a walking stick. At some point he uses said stick to point and says 'there's gold in them thar hills'. Young man thinks 'hey, I wish I had such a pointing stick'
Tricky
Briefly immortal
Similar to what you pictured. Here is where he took the challenge a couple of years ago.Good one
What about a pronged stick held with both hands?
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:IMSWM9tWVwM5oM:http://www.thunting.com
Actually, what sort of stick does Dr Edge use?
