[wideminded]

I also heard that they did tests on melons of some sort and had to do many, many test shots to get one to recoil backwards like Alvarez' theory purports.

So you admit that the theory describes something that *can* happen! They used tape covered melons which obviously aren't perfect models of the human head. I don't know how many tests were done but I've seen the film of the melon falling backwards. Alvarez discusses the melon test and the physics behind it in the link I posted in #110.

[gooleyman]

" So you admit that the theory describes something that *can* happen! They used tape covered melons which obviously aren't perfect models of the human head. I don't know how many tests were done but I've seen the film of the melon falling backwards. Alvarez discusses the melon test and the physics behind it in the link I posted in #110.

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I'm not ADMITTING anything. I'm just saying what I had seen on a documentary. I saw it many years before I knew what a VCR was if it even existed on the consumer level, so I can't go back and watch it again. You describe it as "falling" backwards. Maybe you didn't mean it to sound as if gravity simply acted upon it after the shot, but it did make me think that after so many unsuccessful tries, maybe they sort-of gave it a little tilt backwards so it would "fall" backward...OH there I go again (slaps himself.) Sorry I try to control the conspiracy kook in me, but it's tough. He's a pesky little bugger.

I just find it hard to believe that a person's head shot from the back would recoil backwards. Physics degree or no...Nuclear Expert or no, I think the radiation has gotten to his brain to come up with such a bogus scheme. I give him credit. He's baffled a lot of people with that BS. What was the reason they covered the melons with tape? Why not use coconuts...something hard like the skull? That Emperer (sp?) is as naked as a jaybird.