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John Hutchison

Pinocchio said:
Holy cow, I start a thread on Hutchison and I'm accused of being HIM! Wow, amazing. I'm not John Hutchison. Moderators, check my IP. I'm not even from British Columbia.
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Of course I thought that no one could ever be so stupid that he actually believes in the Hutchison Effect. But I am sorry and I stand corrected...

So you believe that the UFO movie is a fake but you don't know about the rest? Well that sure makes you a Pinoccio cause you are lying to someone. Yourself perhaps...?

I did check out your links and they did see him fail for weeks. No results... Nothing...

Why would he fake one movie?
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case sensitive said:
http://www.americanantigravity.com/video/Hutchison-Heavy-Mix.wmv

Nice video. I like the water (frozen?) flying out of the glass. And the gooey stuff on the string. Another string... What is it with Hutchison and strings? Is this some kind of string theory...?
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Rhetorical question regarding ethnocentricity on the internet ...
Is there any other sort of antigravity than the american type?
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No, wooism is not restricted to any particular nation.
Take for instance the Queensland dowser applicant.
 
Flange Desire said:
[HUMOUR]
Rhetorical question regarding ethnocentricity on the internet ...
Is there any other sort of antigravity than the american type?
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I think you will find that American antigravity is only available to those who can afford it while the types of antigravity available in many other countries is subsidised by the government so it is available to all.
 
Prediction:
Hutchison will never apply for the challenge.

Parlor tricks will never fool the JREF, and that's all Hutchison has as far as I can see. Hutchison knows this too, or we'd have a lot better videos of what he can do. The videos are all close in, so you won't see what's really going on.

The videos are worse than what my class could have done back in high school.
 
One can almost imagine (not that one really has to) at about 55 seconds into the ufo video, someone saying "Sh!t, you can see the string, pan the camera a tad right quick".

Raisable..........erm...no.

Risible....most certainly sir!
 
We did better with Super 8, a box, and a gimbal when I was 12 years old. And no strings.
 
I've watched enough video 'evidence' to be convinced that these clips wouldn't fool an intelligent 5-year old. They are badly filmed, badly edited (you can see the string on the dancing UFO toy) and, to be frank, incredibly stupid. They demonstrate nothing paranormal and demonstrate nothing of value.

Why would someone with the ability to use telekinesis, as defined for this purpose, bother with dancing a toy space ship around a hunk of cheap plywood in a badly-lit, filthy room? IMO, anyone who believes that someone with telekinetic (again...as defined) 'powers' would goof around with bottles and toys is even more stupid that someone who claims to have those 'powers'.

Actually, this is one of my problems with all of the claimed paranormal demonstrations. They are staged in a way so unutterably childish that no one with more than the human reptilian brain could possibly imagine them to be real. Someone who truly had such powers would go to the middle of a large city, at high noon on a sunny day, and just do it. They wouldn't waste tape or battery power dangling wine bottles or dancing toys. The mere fact that such childish behavior is claimed as a necessary part of 'powers' indicates, to me, that the claimant is a liar, a cheat and a fraud and that anyone with an IQ over 70 couldn't possibly think otherwise.

That nonsense about 'classified' is another indication of inveracity and fraud. Why would a government classify test results, such classification indicating that the government doesn't want said results broadcast indiscriminately, and then allow the individual to upload a website demonstrating the behavior that resulted in that classification? It makes no sense. Even the worst conspiracy buffs couldn't explain government interference in a person with 'paranormal powers' while allowing that person free access to the public via the Internet. What would be the purpose of such classification in that case?

Because Mr. Hutchison does nothing more than replicate the same ol', same ol' claims of ability while being unable to demonstrate his claim(s) in ways other than juvenile dancing toys and incredibly bad video clips, I have no doubt, whatsoever, that he is just another sad, tired fraud; and a terribly unskilled one, at that.
 
Oh, you skeptics make me laugh. You never see the big picture.

Of course he was lifting those things with strings. That much is obvious. You can see it in the videos.

What you don't realise, is that he was pulling the strings with his powers.
 
Ripley Twenty-Nine said:
Oh, you skeptics make me laugh. You never see the big picture.

Of course he was lifting those things with strings. That much is obvious. You can see it in the videos.

What you don't realise, is that he was pulling the strings with his powers.
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Now I know! Hutchison is inspired by Ed Wood! Bad camera work! Eccentric... And loved Bela Lugosi...

"Bela Lugosi: Pull the string! Pull the string!"

"[Lugosi points to a Tesla coil on the set of Bride of the Atom]
Bela Lugosi: I'm not getting near that goddamn thing. One of them burned me in "The Return of Chandu"."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/quotes

Hutchison/bad effects, strings and Tesla coil. And of course really bad movie set. The talent of not seeing details like:

"[Making up the bald Dr. Tom to look like Bela Lugosi]
Makeup Man Harry: Ed, what am I gonna do here.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: What do you mean?
Makeup Man Harry: Has no hair.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Gee, I never noticed that. Put a wig on him!"
 
I bet Industrial Light & Magic are getting nervous with this new player in town.
 
Thread about strings

Let me first give two, count em two caveats:

I only saw the videos in the windows player and the resolution really 'aint that great not to mention the lighting was pretty bad in the video to boot.

I know nothing about illusions, stage magic or special effects, I know a lot of people here do.

That said: I got the impression some of the 'levitating objects' were actually falling. Did anyone else get this impression? There were a couple of things that to me looked like they were breaking loose and falling toward the floor.

Am I nuts or did anyone else see this?
 
valis said:
Let me first give two, count em two caveats:

I only saw the videos in the windows player and the resolution really 'aint that great not to mention the lighting was pretty bad in the video to boot.

I know nothing about illusions, stage magic or special effects, I know a lot of people here do.

That said: I got the impression some of the 'levitating objects' were actually falling. Did anyone else get this impression? There were a couple of things that to me looked like they were breaking loose and falling toward the floor.

Am I nuts or did anyone else see this?
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I heard a few critics saying the same thing. When something looks like it is falling the camera is usually zoomed in close.
 
The wildly-spinning drill bit, now that's a clearly NOT paranormal effect.

(Look at it, and you'll clearly see there is some wrapping of paper concealing the drill operating under the board. Wow.)

To digress, it's Thanksgiving Eve, so here's my request for the upcoming holidays:
A column by Randi with the year's woo-woo predictions, consolidated into one place, and the outcomes. Some examples:
Snow in July in Kansas (or Oakland) -- TC Albin
The Big One -- Steven K.

Anyway, you get the idea. Thanks in advance, JR.
 
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