[meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining rods over a large iron)

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:43:27 -0400
Message-ID: <AAEBFDEE19C4423AA0F93FD29CCC28B0_at_ET>

OK, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take Michael Murray up on his
original proposition that started this crazy thread. I'm going to make some
divining rods like Warren's dad made. Then I'll bury a 10 kilo Odessa
meteorite a foot underground. I will then see if it shorts out the Earth's
magnetic field enough to affect the electro-chemical reactions in my brain
producing a muscular twitching resulting in the crossing of the magical
rods. I will have 3 other people try it that don't know where the meteorite
is buried for a sort of triple blind experiment. I will disguise the hole so
they can't see it. I'll report back the results. This groundbreaking
experiment will settle this silly argument once and for all. (Notice how I
brought the thread back to the subject of meteorites!)

Phil Whitmer

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Hi Chris & list,

While I agree with you , I must do so with a small grain of salt.

I nearly quoted your previous email statement to my father regarding
divining rods .

He smiled at me, went inside and brought out 2 coat hangers. He cut them and
produced two straightened pieces of wire. He then bent them both the same
way, nearly at a 90 degree angle with one end longer than the other. He then
held the short ends, one in each and hand, loosely out in front of him. He
walked across the lawn over a buried water pipe and the two wires went from
pointing forward to crossing each other. They crossed exactly when he walked
over the pipe and then uncrossed when he was past it.

I didn't believe any of it, so he handed them to me. Like a fool ( I felt
like one, holding two pieces of wire walking around), I took them and
repeated what he had done. Damned if they didn't cross exactly the same way.
I could back up slowly and they would move slowly at the same time, crossing
when over the pipe.

I took this situation to school. A professor listened and proposed we try
some tests. All in all.... our conclusion was that you can call it bunk, but
if you were thirsty, you could find water pipes easily.

I have not found much REAL data on the subject. My own theories about why
the wire worked wouldn't jive with sticks or plastics.... While I didn't
believe in it scientifically I can honestly say, if I were dying of thirst
and had to find water underground in a pipe(lol) you'd find me with some
coat hangers and a glass.

Warren Sansoucie
IMCA #3174
St. Louis MO
Received on Thu 14 Oct 2010 05:43:27 PM PDT