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- cusscakes, on 11/05/2009, -3/+55This one time this guy threw a coin up in the air and called "HEADS!" When the coin landed it was indeed heads. Say what you will, but I witnessed his psychic powers firsthand. Perhaps just because you can't explain something doesn't necessarily make it *****? All I know is that it worked.
- DownHouse, on 11/04/2009, -2/+46If only dowsing could be used to detect stupid.
- Muero, on 11/04/2009, -0/+39It does . . . in the people using it.
- DownHouse, on 11/04/2009, -0/+35True! And probably the only time that it's 100% accurate.
- sambaynham, on 11/05/2009, -2/+35Just because you can't explain something doesn't make it *****.
When you can't explain something, can't prove something, can't make it reliably work and only ever had your word to say it worked in the first place - THAT'S what makes it *****. - cadon35, on 11/04/2009, -5/+34Maybe if the military was using this back in 2003 they would've found the WMDs.
- destroyerwi, on 11/05/2009, -1/+25"It detects ions" = "It's got electrolytes"
- McNerd, on 11/05/2009, -0/+23This, right here, is pure crystallized Digg. First, incredibly stupid nonsense. Then, instead of even the slightest attempt at defending the first statement, irrelevant anti-Obama hyperbole.
Classic. - Crimeodial, on 11/05/2009, -4/+24You have to be kidding....
- RennyB, on 11/05/2009, -0/+19Life expectancy in 1800, 37. In 2009, 75. But hey science, what have you done for me lately.
- breadfred, on 11/04/2009, -2/+20TASC's website: http://www.tasc.bg/
- jbmcb, on 11/05/2009, -1/+19Randi tests these guys every couple of years, he gets a few dozen of them together and runs an experiment. He gets a good turnout because if any of them do well, they are eligible for a $1 million prize.
Nobody has ever done well. Keep in mind that the dowsers are allowed to practice all they want, until they are confident that they can perform the test. Once the test goes double-blind, their abilities disappear.
http://www.randi.org/library/dowsing/ - wcarver, on 11/05/2009, -1/+18I worked for the Water Resource Division of the USGS and I saw many ranchers in Eastern Colorado waste 1000's of $$$ on this *****. Whenever a dry spell hit the loons would scurry from their holes to shear the flock.
This crap in Iraq is beyond stupid - it's lethally stupid. - doctechnical, on 11/05/2009, -0/+17If you ever get hit by a bus I hope someone says a prayer for you and walks away. We wouldn't want an ambulance with all that science ***** in it to ruin your day.
- jbmcb, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15> I know companys use it to find water pipes underground before digging
Those companies should get in touch with Randi, if they could prove that their dowsers can find underground pipes they would get a million dollars. - SisyphusFragmnt, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14There is no peer reviewed science that suggests autism or any other problem is caused by vaccinations. STFU you loon before you help Jenny McCarthy kill more innocent children.
- Propethic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14Life expectancy in 1800, 37. In 2009, 75
When should we start seeing it drop because of flu vaccines? - McNerd, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14Can dowsing rods detect sarcasm?
- Kordox3, on 11/05/2009, -1/+15portnoy: Then please explain all the pro dowsers who have been tested and failed miserably.
What's most likely, that dowsing is real, even though all the evidence points against it? Or that your dad was simply lucky? If he really can dowse accurately, then he should meet James Randi and win his $1,000,000, which will be easy if dowsing is real. - Ciryon, on 11/04/2009, -9/+22I'm a libertarian at heart but this new age, alternative medicine mumbo jumbo needs to stop. It's not funny anymore, people die from believing this ***** and they take other with them.
- NJank, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13no. not maybe. no.
- JigoroKano, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13If he believes in dousing for explosives, then he is not a "brilliant explosives expert".
- breadfred, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13Don't know who was digging me down, but that is the website where you can buy this crap.
- jebus123, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12It's got what bombs crave.
- TheBSG, on 11/05/2009, -2/+13My father is an apatheist, a brilliant explosives expert, professional ***** detector, and is all-around incredibly street smart: He still believes in dousing. I don't understand it. It's almost as if competent individuals are unable to trust their own intuition, so they have to use a vehicle in order to do so.
- PowderedToasty, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11Is anything really possible Portnoy? Really? If someone claimed that a dog gave birth to a cat would you say "sure that happened, anything is possible" or would you say "no, that of course didn't happen because it is impossible".
- ricker2005, on 11/05/2009, -2/+12I'm guessing it has the same success rate as a regular one.
- carbonetc, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10Since he doesn't have to worry about contracting polio, smallpox, typhus, etc. xelerated has decades of spouting antivax ***** ahead of him.
- bombula, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9Um, no, you haven't seen companies dousing. Sinking a test spike into the soil to find out exactly where the _pipes_ are (after reading a map to find their general vicinity) is not the same as waving a magic wand above the ground to detect where _water_ is.
- McNerd, on 11/05/2009, -1/+10Look portnoy. How many thousands of people are on Digg? How many relatives do they have? How many of those relatives have tried crazy things, and what is the probability of those crazy things working by pure luck?
When I went onto this comments page, I already knew there'd be someone saying they'd seen a dowsing rod work. It was statistically inevitable. And here you are! So the first thing to realize is that whether you're right or wrong, no intelligent person would ever be convinced by reading your posts.
Now admittedly, from YOUR perspective it seems more significant because this happened to you, not just to some random Internet guy. But think...did your friends get their cancer cured by a miracle herb? Did you win the lottery? There are billions of statistically improbable things that could have happened to you: is it so hard to believe that just one lucky thing did happen? (And finding a water pipe doesn't even require THAT much luck to begin with.) - serif69, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
- OfoarHeffinsake, on 11/05/2009, -2/+10He found a pipe in a basement? Why, the odds of that have to be 2 to 1! That's astro-notical!
- brickwall99, on 11/05/2009, -1/+9Anti-science meaning superstitions; palm reading, fortune telling, astrology, religion, mind reading, etc.
- philomatic, on 11/05/2009, -9/+17I have a dowser in my pants that detects hot women
- Apokalyps2547, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8I couldn't possibly have said it better.
- chuckDontSurf, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7I'm sure your pants get quite dowsed in the process.
- askantik, on 11/05/2009, -2/+8Am I the only one that has never heard of until now and/or still doesn't really get what dowsing is supposed to be? I've also heard of divining rods but don't really get those either. Maybe it's because it sounds so retarded I don't understand?
- ironhide, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Don't let us stop you xelerated, let us know how it works out for you.
- PowderedToasty, on 11/05/2009, -2/+8That's why things like this are so common. In our experience, if we see something that causes something to happen, it is pretty much built into us to make a mental connection there. This is great and works out well for us most of the time. The problem is, even when we should know something is impossible, the same principle works. If you see someone dowse and find water, it is going to take some mental effort to convince yourself the dowsing was not actually what found the water.
- kingmanic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6The way the water table works in most of the US is that if you dig deep enough there is water. So these charlatans make money because in general you can't be wrong.
- Coffeedemon, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Dogs are too slow? Mission Accomplished! That place is getting more Western every day.
Give me convenience or give me death! - PiddlyD, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Divining Rod... the "tool" used by someone performing "dowsing".
They're the same thing, askantik. One uses their divining rod in order to dowse. - RagManX, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6No, no - here's a highly accurate dowsing rod. Maybe not 100% but it's still pretty good:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/wi-fi_dow ... - Wakkyweed, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6And then our psychic footsoldiers go stare at goats...
- NJank, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4oh god. According to the brochure:
http://www.tasc.bg/unival_pdf_downloads/unival_sni ...
they patented this nonsense:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6344818 - ducktomguy, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4they were probably scared by the Bulgarian domain suffix
- lisaawesome, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Those Bulgarians are mighty scary!
- rblancarte, on 11/05/2009, -0/+41. Find nearest highway
2. run across it until you don't make it
sounds pretty easy. - nepidae, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4They could always use pigs.
- moulin1, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4SNIFFEX®PLUS modulates a magnetic field with specific form in its surrounding. The interaction between the dynamic magnetic field modulated by SNIFFEX®PLUS, the vertical component of the earth magnetic field and the motion of the operator, holding the device, creates the necessary condition for the presence of a magnetic interference. If there is an object in the surrounding containing -NO2 or -NO3 compounds or hydrogen peroxide in its chemical structure, this interference can be measured with SNIFFEX®PLUS. The antenna reacts as a pointer to the object.
They are too modest. They failled to mention it also makes your penis larger. -
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