Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Jordan
Some governments are disclosing some information: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16000752-13762,00.html On 22 Jul 2005 at 17:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Stephan Vincent Johnson.- If the government does have evidence >of UFO'S . When would they tell us.-the p

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stephan Vincent Johnson.- If the government does have evidence of UFO'S . When would they tell us.-the people. It seems we should be mature enough to handle it at this time. If not now when?-Unless there are no Ufo's-GES

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread orionworks
Jed sez: > I wouldn't know, but perhaps intelligence surveillance > equipment is not geared toward detecting UFOs, and perhaps > innovative amateur equipment could do a better job. This > is mere speculation, but suppose UFOs are common, so the > big radars have been programmed to ignore them. Aft

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Grimer
At 05:04 pm 21/07/2005 -0400, Steven wrote: > being mistaken for a bunch of > ravenous Jihad Loving reptilian messengers > spawned from Satan's loins - or several other > colorful cultural interpretations many in our > population passionately cling to. Careful Stevey - or you'

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: However, if they have not observed them, it would not surprise me, and I would not blame them. The government and the professional astronomers have not observed or cataloged many of the large and potentially dangerous asteroids. . . . I meant to say that I suppose asteroids resemble

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread orionworks
Jed sez: ... > Along the same lines, I suppose the "highly sophisticated > intelligence" organizations are busy just now, with this > War on Terror in full swing. They probably do not have > the resources or the skills to go looking for UFOs. On this point I'm in agreement with you. All the mo

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely you're not suggesting that our nation's highly sophisticated intelligence gathering instrumentation network (that probably DOES include UFO-cams) has not verified beyond a shadow of doubt that certain kinds of UFOs truly exist? I have no idea. I know next to n

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Grimer
At 11:30 am 21/07/2005 -0400, Jed wrote: >There have been a few instances in which irreproducible but high-sigma CF >events occurred. The best examples are the 1985 explosion in Fleischmann >and Pon's lab, and Mizuno's 1991 massive heat after death event. Even >though these could not be reprodu

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread orionworks
Hi Jed, I'm probablly getting way OT here but I feel a need to follow-up on one particular line of thought. ... > Perhaps a theorist can work with a pencil and paper alone, > but in experimental and observational science instruments > are the only source of valid information. UFO-ology will > n

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If acute intelligence, keen > observation and astounding intuition were a reliable > guide to nature, people would have devised starships > thousands of years ago. People have always had these mental > abilities, but they never did us much good until we harnessed > them

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Grimer
At 12:23 pm 21/07/2005 -0400, Steven wrote: . > For example, it's often been my highly subjective > and idle day dreams that spuriously flit across my > consciousness like UFOs that have pointed me in the > direction of another personal discovery, or how to > conduct an experiment, or how to re

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Christopher Arnold
Jed,   Respectfully, some people need funding to hire HELP, otherwise they use a pencil and paper. It is not the fault of the discoverer that he ONLY discovered the breakthrough that a hard working professional data cruncher would never have bothered attempting, much less even think of. And how da

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread orionworks
The continuing debate between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Jed: > > > > If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific > > > -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot > > > reproduce it, then eventually you must conclude > > > that you did not see it. > > > >Using your own words, that's absolutely

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot reproduce it, then eventually you must conclude that you did not see it. Nonsense. If you cannot reproduce it you must conclude that it is very hard to reproduce. Ther

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific > -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot > reproduce it, then eventually you must conclude > that you did not see it. Using your own words, that's absolutely ridiculous! Tell that to all those pesky UFOs that c

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Why won't those saucers just cooperate! Neither did the "WOW" signal: http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2001/Wow.htm

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Christopher Arnold > So you agree that RV is real and some are better at it than others? Without doubt. Dr.s Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, and Jack Sarfatti have theories on quantum consciousness involving neural microtubules which might explain how ESP.

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Grimer wrote: I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. Suppose you observe some scientific phenomena which only occurs once and you are the only observer. If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot repr

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread orionworks
Jed sez: > If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific > -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot > reproduce it, then eventually you must conclude > that you did not see it. Using your own words, that's absolutely ridiculous! Tell that to all those pesky UFOs that come flitting in a

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-21 Thread Grimer
At 07:12 pm 20/07/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Grimer wrote: > >>I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. Suppose you observe >>some scientific phenomena which only occurs once and you are the only >>observer. > >If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific -- yet. You have to >reproduc

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Christopher Arnold
So you agree that RV is real and some are better at it than others?   ChrisTerry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Christopher Arnold >Also, Hal Puthoff experimented on this topic with Ingo Swann in the early days of RV in attempts to manipulate machines from a distance.Actually, Pat Price

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Grimer wrote: I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. Suppose you observe some scientific phenomena which only occurs once and you are the only observer. If it only occurs once then it isn't scientific -- yet. You have to reproduce it. If you cannot reproduce it, then eventually

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Christopher Arnold >Also, Hal Puthoff experimented on this topic with Ingo Swann in the early days >of RV in attempts to manipulate machines from a distance. Actually, Pat Price put effeminate Swann to shame. You should do a little research on Price, his performance, and his fate.

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Grimer
>Experiment -- and experiment alone -- is only standard of truth. If there >have not been many experiments in remote viewing, then no one knows whether >it is real or not. > >- Jed > I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. Suppose you observe some scientific phenomena which only occ

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread orionworks
> From: Christopher Arnold > There are people that actually refuse to believe that > Remote Viewing is real too, despite all the evidence. > Actually this article is based on the work of much older > studies. Also, Hal Puthoff experimented on this topic > with Ingo Swann in the early days of RV

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Christopher Arnold wrote: There are people that actually refuse to believe that Remote Viewing is real too, despite all the evidence. What evidence? Has remote viewing been tested objectively, in depth? The only tests I know of were performed by Hal Puthoff. I know little about them, althoug

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Christopher Arnold
There are people that actually refuse to believe that Remote Viewing is real too, despite all the evidence. Actually this article is based on the work of much older studies. Also, Hal Puthoff experimented on this topic with Ingo Swann in the early days of RV in attempts to manipulate machines from

Re: Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Jed Rothwell > I cannot judge, but some of this research seems impressive. I have been following Dean Radin for almost a decade now. Actually, he used to work in the Princeton Psychology department and had a falling out over his research. Where he now works, the Institute of Noetic Sc

Wired article on Jahn

2005-07-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Some issues and reactions similar to those of cold fusion: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68216,00.html I cannot judge, but some of this research seems impressive. It is statistical in nature and it has not been replicated elsewhere. That puts it in the same category as the top qu