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GERALD EPLING - Shimmering Leaf Inventor

steenkh said:
Things certainly have changed at the JREF, if this application is not rejected immediately on the grounds that there is no specified paranormal claim.
The ability to pick up noises from a boiling egg does not impress anyone. I can even pick up noises from boiling water!
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I have to agree. I can't understand why this guy wants to dowse a chicken egg and alot of posts in this thread are just speculating on what he was really proposing. I guarantee that the answer (if there is one) will be kookier than any of the guesses.

Anyway, I'm glad to see the applications being posted again. Weirdos: they're so much fun.
 
Let me chime in ...

I happen to think that Mr Epling is proposing to illustrate the 'pain' felt by an egg when placed in boiling water.

This demonstration of a 'nerve-reaction' by a chicken egg in hot water, would indeed be a revelation of paranormal activity.

I have done a bit of research, and come to the following points:

1. If the invention is sensitive to changes in water saturation/humidity levels, how can it possibly be allowed to be placed into a pot of water? rjh01 has provided the link to Arthur Epling's website that describes this H2o reaction being 'measured' with two dracaena plants.

2. Other than the determination of the presence of water, this Epling invention might be able to detect temperature fluctuation.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/users/carv...ts/Pictures/SensorsInUse/temperatureprobe.jpg
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In any case, the renewal of the Challange is very egg-citing!
 
But all yolks aside- all you hard-boiled skeptics, can't you egg-cept this claim as a valid attempt to egg-celerate scientific understanding?

Sure it's not as egg-citing as a claim about eggs-tra sensory perception or eggs-tra-terrestrials, and the language might be a bit scrambled, but I don't think this guy's brain is fried. His attempt to eggs-tract information from eggs eggs-ibits eggs-actly the sort of curiosity that the JREF should be celebrating in people today!

Sure, you may be eggs-austed by the constant stream of failed applicants, but don't eggs-it this forum, or crack up at this guy's misfortune. Don't hide in your shell of cynicism- instead, keep your sunny side up and quit beating this poor, honest applicant. I know one thing for sure, omelet-ting him speak for himself before I make up my mind.
 
Is Randi beaten? He may have to shell out on this one.

Either way, it should be one for the albumen.

Ok, I'm out.
 
Anyone else noticed:

I will be able to make a monitored chicken egg produce an electrophysiological response that is strong enough to trigger my Shimmering Leaf(TM) Plant Activity Detector. The Shimmering Leaf(TM) Plant Activity Detector produces a pulsating tone centered around 440 Hertz.
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The egg appears to be tuned to A
 
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Scrambling for dreadful puns again. The lot of you are just hard-boiled skeptics!
 
Come on you guys. This is a serious thread about the inflicting pain on defenceless eggs. If you want dreadful puns go to the humour section. Otherwise you might end up with egg on your face.
 
How can he tell if his machine detects the paranormal, or is just fried? Does he think JREF is going to just roll over easy and give him the money for something not paranormal? When it come to this application, I'll leave finding the sunny side up to the rest of you.
 
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