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

From: Warren Sansoucie <warren3174_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:46:40 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY132-W3BF8272F7A71C242ED47CD3570_at_phx.gbl>

Here we go again with bitching about OT.... everything is always off topic when I comment on it.
 
The topic was diving rods to find meteorites ...correct??? So my input on an experience with them is considered off topic???
 
 
How about this.... I drop this bitch fest lame list out of my email and then I wont have to read threads full of people complaining about OT all the time.
 
Some folks on here should really go out more and live a little, then they wouldn't be so grumpy.
 
Since this email is technically OFF TOPIC, I'll end it now.
 
It's been nice talking to SOME of you.
 
Warren Sansoucie
IMCA #3174
St. Louis MO

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> From: joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:43:27 -0400
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining rods over a large iron)
>
> 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
>
> ---------------------------
>
> 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
>
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