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

From: Carl 's <carloselguapo1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:14:05 -0700
Message-ID: <BLU151-w4814C427E2FC91021BA0DB9B560_at_phx.gbl>

Hi All,
 
Nuts! I can't believe all this talk about divining rods lately. So, I made myself a pair from wire clothes hanger, following Warren's instructions and went out to my side yard. My front and back yard are compeltely cemented over. I made it out about 3 feet and the rods crossed over. WTH!! I doubled back and they crossed over at the same spot! I walked over the entire yard and came back at the same spot. Yep, they crossed over! I can't wait till my sons come home so they repeat this experiment.
 
Carl2
 
 
 
Warren wrote:
 
>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....
Received on Thu 14 Oct 2010 06:14:05 PM PDT