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Man Lives on Sunlight

Honestly, I think it is a load of f****** bu**s***!
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You know, I like the way you hold back the use of euphemisms. They tend to hide and skew the meaning of your true feelings. I agree, total f***ing b***sh**!
 
Hey, hey, hey, there! Before you brush this off so lightly, I'll have you know that I get all my nutrients from sunshine too!

Of course it's preprocessed into meat, fruit, veggies, etc.

BUT IT'S STILL SUNSHINE!!
 
Yes, it's popped up on some New Age sites as well, and apparently in the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia and even a Space News website of some description.

But none of them have any words from NASA, and NASA has nothing about it either. Why do I think this is all made up?

Reminds me of one of Australia's great products - Jasmuheen and her "Breatharianism". :mad:
 
Last June, scientists from the US space agency verified that Manek spent 130 days surviving only on water, the report said.
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from the Sydney Morning Herald report. You'd think something like this would be all over NASA's website, wouldn't you?
 
Jasmuheen does indded endorse this fakir, sorry I mean faker.

A search on her forum will bring up a some administer posted links.

Quite surprisingly the forum search engine finds no mention of Timo Degen, Verity Linn or Lani Morris who have all died because they followed her nutty teachings.

The Ross institute has some interesting links about breatharians.
 
Why do I think that the references to NASA were all confabulated, believing that NASA would never bother to refute such a ridiculous story?

That would make me a skeptic or a cynic?:cool:
 
If I am reading Bob Park right, he claims that NASA verifies that their scientists checked this out: http://www.aps.org/WN/

Thursday, July 3, 2003

1. NASA: COULD AN ASTRONAUT LEARN TO SURVIVE BY PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
Perhaps the Columbia accident convinced NASA that a backup plan is needed in case astronauts are stranded on the Space Station (WN 14 Mar 03). According to the Hindustan Times, NASA turned to a survival expert, Hira Ratan Manek, a 64-year-old mechanical engineer from India. Manek claims to have survived for eight years on sunlight, water and a little tea. He is in the United States to show NASA how he does it. NASA scientists reportedly verified that Manek survived on water and sunlight for 130 days. The NASA Public Affairs Office confirmed to WN that the claim is true. This is a bold new approach. If the laws of nature stand in the way of a solution, it’s time to change the laws.
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Bolding added for emphasis.

So I gotta ask, is NASA keeping its standards for scientists high enough?

Here's another What's New column by Bob Park, mentioning a NASA Scientist: http://www.aps.org/WN/WN03/wn051603.html

2. TIAA-CREF: CAN ANTIGRAVITY KEEP YOUR RETIREMENT FROM FALLING?
A lot of us in this business are relying on TIAA-CREF to sustain us in our declining years. They must be pretty savvy to manage all that money, huh? In the May issue of Participant: Quarterly News and Performance from TIAA-CREF,"a leading researcher in the cutting-edge field of gravity control," Ning Li, is profiled. A Ph.D physicist, she did research for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and now has her own company, AC Gravity. The article, Will Antigravity Change the World?, begins: "Imagine a world in which cars fly, oil is obsolete, and space travel is effortless as the flight of birds." Yes, it’s the famous Podkletnov gravity shield again (WN 2 Aug 02); you can’t keep a good man down. WN revised the beginning: "Imagine a world in which the impossible claims of an obscure Russian physicist fail every test, the laws of physics are obsolete, and bull ◊◊◊◊ flies effortlessly." So, who wanted to retire anyhow?
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