I dunno, Bill. This guy's grizzly-proof suit and something called "fire paste" seem to work. The weird suit in the background of the photo reminded me that I'd seen this guy's stuff on the Discovery Channel, so I googled his name and came up with:
http://www.improb.com/news/2003/oct/troy-flamerproof.html I have to agree. It seems like total B.S. But you have to ask why somebody would go to all that trouble to dupe some investors out of a few tens of thousands of dollars, escpecially an inventor with a track record. Of course they were from....France..., Remulac, maybe. M. >>Bill wrote: Here's something from a basement inventor: weird EM effect makes solids transparent, ruins electronics, kills goldfish? http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=6657 http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/gallery.asp?c=6657&Title=%3Cb%3EHurtubise+says+invention+sees+through+walls%2DBayToday%2Eca+exclusive%3C%2Fb%3E The few experiences I've had with these things lead me to conclude that it's a hoax. The thing is horribly complicated and employs unknown principles... and yet it WORKS? How the hell would he debug such a beast if (when) it didn't work when first turned on? That's a dead giveaway. Imagine trying to build a laser or computer or TV set in 1905 from information received in a dream. Or imagine one person in 1905 trying to make a copy of these devices, even with the actual device in front of them to work from. Without continuing and extremely detailed step-by-step guidance, there are many thousands of critical mistakes possible in a complicated system, any one of which would screw up the function. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
