Notes from a parallel universe

Discover ^ | April 2002 | Jennifer Kahn

[lds23]

All I want to know is, after being neatly and quietly stored, why the garden hose (or extension cord or Christmas lights) always get tangled. And don't say "torque". That's how. I want to know WHY. WHYYY!!

[dighton]

"As I read this, I kept thinking: 'How hard can it be to prove that this paper is incontrovertibly wrong?'" he said. "But it is hard. Not because his ideas are right. They're not. But because he's created a self-consistent system of arguments."

Great post.

Chesterton says it all about arguing with madmen, but the passage eludes me. Anyone?

[Scully]

"It shows how easy it is to slip from healthy, even necessary, conviction into certainty and delusion..."

Well that certainly would describe me these days. LOL! As far as the incidents mentioned within this article having any connection with the X-Files, I cannot comment at this time. ;)

[longshadow]

must read crank-report ping and bttt

[Dog Gone]

I wish I had saved all the letters I've received over the years which promised to help me find oil through the use of divining rods. "Underground rivers of oil", they claim.

I should have put them under glass next to all the patents I've stolen from widows. You know, the ones for the 200 mpg carburetor.

[Michael Barnes]

Sorry about the divining rod thing Dog Gone, I thought I had a winner on that one..

[PatrickHenry]

This article does not discourage me from continuing to perfect my anti-gravity machine in my basement la-BOR-a-tory.

[Brett66]

The universe according to Billy Meier:

Billymeier.com

Bily Meier has been taught by space aliens from the Pleides cluster, so you know his theories are grade A.

Pic of Billy Meier:

[Scully]

We've had dealings with this individual before. His beard is actually a sophisticated sensor array...at least this is what he claims...

[Dog Gone]

I thought so, too, unix, until I drilled two dry holes on your sure-fire prospects...

[Scully]

I am in the process of assembling my la-BOHR-a-tory (the family has acquiesced, I think perhaps to avoid uncomfortable questions from visitors and family alike). Then, I shall obtain a la-bohr-a-tory ferret and call him "Franklin". :)

[isthisnickcool]

Cool post.

There is a guy in Texas with a machine that generates energy from a certain combination of magnets. No power is needed. He has solved the energy problem. Above his work bench hovers a flying saucer he made. It just hovers, and hovers, and hovers. I know that people that have seen his energy device. It scared them.

Since everything is connected, when I type on my keyboard I sometimes knock a sufer off his surf board on the coast of Australia.

People don't age. Everything around them gets younger.

Hey, this is fun.......

[Brett66]

In fact, it's one of Meier's photos that adorns Mulder's office:

[LarryLied]

Physicist Rich Muller tries to save every crank missive he receives.

Figures. Check out his web page:

http://muller.lbl.gov/

Did you know chocolate chip cookies contain, by weight, five times the energy of TNT? Muller is also interested in glacial cycles,The Search for Nemesis,Al Qaeda's Anthrax and the Sins of Jesus. Don't miss "Physics for future Presidents", the chapter on explosives is very good.

[Scully]

Yes indeed! Mulder was especially proud of that poster...until it burned in an unfortunate fire. The replacement isn't nearly as good, but the message is the same.

[NormsRevenge]

crank theorists? LOL

did the unabomber run a meth lab? how the hell did he support himself?... a book bomb of the month club aint a real moneymaker ... ask OpraH

parallel universes ... that explains where my car keys go from time to time

[DennisR]

Okay, I'm finally convinced. :)

[jlogajan]

I've invented a working model of a time machine, and if I could ever get the US government to allow the patent, I could raise investment funds to add different travel rates. Right now it only has one setting -- advancing 86400 seconds per day.

[aculeus]

Can't help with Chesterton, but ...

Me: My name right now is legally Archimedes Plutonium, and I had changed it several times in my life.

PM: Archimedes Plutonium, four days a week he washes pots and pans at Dartmouth's Hanover Inn. For his 32 hours in the suds, Archimedes gets a precious employ benefit, time on the schools computers where he serves the Net and puts out the word on his singular passion, a theory called PLutonium Atom Totality.

Me: Everything that we see, everything that there is, is just one atom! If you know about physics, every electron is a whole bunch of dots, those dots I claim are galaxies. So as you are looking at the night sky, you are looking at one electron.

So, now you know.

Archy's link.

[My back yard]

Enjoyable read. Thanks for posting it.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go. Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer