[meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:40:00 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=9qQJ_gWLcVzHiU_-=-qgvHsjNdC0YbUDK0Ygx_at_mail.gmail.com>

I've got $10,000 for the first person who can successfully dowse the
location of the Mason Dixon Meteor.

Please contact me off list for details.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Mark Ford <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com> wrote:
>
>
> Strange that you are happy believe that a stick is able to point to a
> meteorite all by itself, yet don't accept that lie detectors work
> (despite a considerable weight of research), and think that the Steward
> Observatory, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the
> European Southern Observatory, Leiden University in the Netherlands and
> Germany's Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, have ""photoshopped"" an
> exoplanet pic??
>
>
> After all didn't you say..
>
>>First off, let me say that all you naysaying dowser denialists need to
> get off your high horses, come down
>>from your ivory towers and enter the realm of simple, reproducible,
> empirical evidence-based experimental
>>scientific methodology instead of parroting dogmatic drivel and
> appealing to the authority of idiots.
>
> :)
>
>
> Mark
>
>
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are
> dubious?!
>
> Those pictures look computer enhanced ?(photo-shopped) to me, I was
> thinking
> more along the lines of something like this:
>
>
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html
>
> You know, real pictures.
>
> Phil Whitmer
> ------------------------------------------
>
>> I'm going to need to see a visible light photograph of an exoplanet to
>
>> confirm their existence.
>
>
> Here it is:
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015105935.htm
>
> Next? Will the next in line please step forward?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>
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