[meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!

From: Ken Newton <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:21:50 -0400
Message-ID: <46B3642E.30208_at_earthlink.net>

Sterling and All,
Calling him a 'dowser' is being 'kind', as I think
dowsing has produced some desirable results,
but I think you are technically correct.

Mr. Yokum listed a batch of suspect meteorites
(on eBay 5-6 years ago) located with said machine .
I contacted him at that time.

Mr. Yokum has a vision and he does not let
little things like facts deter it. He sent a sample to
UCLA and was told it was not a meteorite.
He sent a sample to me and I told him the same.

Chunks purchased by others have appeared on eBay
since then. The most controversial listing was by a List member
that admittedly purchased 500 lbs. The sad part is
I phoned this seller and told him that I had a sample
of the same exact material he was selling and
I told him that it was not a meteorite. He assured me that
his items were different and contained much nickel-iron.
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/2255992757.htm

This is the follow-up auction that revealed the truth about
the metal content and the character of the seller:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/2260392588.htm
 
A year later, the same seller still claiming "an internal
appearance similar to that of Dronino - a high-nickel-content iron
meteorite" unloaded much more of the same on eBay:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/auctions/6562295908.pdf

Best,
Ken Newton
http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/updates.html


Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> Hi, List,
>
> He's a dowser! Gee, I haven't seen or heard of
> a dowser at work for 50 years. Most dowsing was
> for water, though, to find the proper location to dig
> a well. I once lived in a farmhouse property where
> they had a dowser "dowse" for the best well location
> before they built the house.
>
> After the dowser picked the best spot for a well,
> the well-driller set up his rig and commenced. This was
> in an area where wells usually "came in" between 20
> and 30 feet. At 40-odd feet, the driller pointed out that
> they were virtually certain to hit water in the next ten feet,
> so it would actually cost the landowner more to chose
> another drill site and start over with a new well.
>
> They let the drilling continue in the same spot, and
> had the same argument with the driller every ten feet or
> so, until at 87 feet, they hit water at last, at three times
> the average depth for the region (and about five times
> the usual drilling cost).
>
> Now confident that they had a reliable source of
> water, the owners commenced the construction of their
> house at a spot about 25 feet from the well site. They
> began to dig out the basement, but at a depth of only
> 45 INCHES, they hit a "blind spring," which continued
> to flow a respectible stream of water despite all their
> many efforts to shut it down.
>
> When I lived there fifty years later, the spring in
> the basement was still flowing --- out a pipe in the
> concrete floor that carried the spring water down to
> the roadside ditch to drain away, and we drank the
> water from the 87-foot-deep "dowsed" well.
>
> I always thought of that well as a memorial to the
> "efficacy" of dowsing, but $2800 for an electronic
> "dowsing machine" is an truly enterprising fraud. I
> wonder if Yokum's gadget will find water? I will say
> this for the expensive "dowsed" well, though: it was
> really good water.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Nut finds fake meteorite with fake technology!
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:16:57 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>> Nut or not, I think it's inspiring that a man of that age is off his "rusty
>> dusty" looking around.
>>
>>
>
> With a little research, I see that the guy in the article isn't just some
> old
> fool who fell for the fraudulent technology-- he's the guy selling it. So
> he
> suckered some newspaper reporter into marketing his product for him.
>
> http://geotech.thunting.com/cgi-bin/pages/common/index.pl?page=lrl&file=reports/omnirange/index.dat
>
> http://www.thunting.com/geotech/forums/archive/index.php/t-11590.html
>
>
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