Jason in Enid
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x2. But .... watch it , or you'll cross into "badgering"
Elh:TOM, I suppose you missed post # 870. enough said from my side. you either believe it or not. not badgering, BUT, I am not fool enuff to post
anything like what you wish. Just be careful and not call folks liars.
TOM, I suppose you missed post # 870. enough said from my side. you either believe it or not. not badgering, BUT, I am not fool enuff to post
anything like what you wish. Just be careful and not call folks liars.
Casca: You say you tried to duplicate the experiment and worked with some optics in the military. No you did not duplicate it. You fell short. If you had duplicated, you would have gotten the same results. Even before you started experimenting, most likely your work with optics in the military had already given you an attitude or a mind set that it would not work anyway and all you were doing was proving that it would fail for you. It goes like this, combat plans are conceived by geniuses are executed by idiots. Get the point?After trying to duplicate the experiment I was unable to see gold buried. I did learn a lot about light, spectrum's, and how such things as touch screens work. I worked with some optics while in military service and will say there is some great optics out there. While you could find voids and areas cooler in the ground like old path or cold air. My F75 is the only thing that I know that can find disturbed dirt. But again it can not take a picture. Now OKM has some great videos on their detectors and about as close as seeing gold in a picture as you will get. I still do wonder though if lightening really does like gold in the ground? Also blue fog early in the am would that indicate gold also?
TOM, I suppose you missed post # 870.....
.... enough said from my side. ... I am not fool enuff to post anything like what you wish. ....
.... Just be careful and not call folks liars.
After trying to duplicate the experiment I was unable to see gold buried. ... .
..... ... Also blue fog early in the am would that indicate gold also?
Lesjcbs, but don't you get it ? If someone here DID "try it" (Like casca did) and found there to be zero results, it would not be accepted. You would merely say they must have done it wrong, or didn't practice enough, etc... So why is it wrong for the proponents of an unconventional method like this to be asked : "Show the proof" ? Why is the burden of proof on the skeptic to prove it CAN'T be done (which would summarily be dismissed anyhow). It seems to me that it's quite fair for the burden of proof to be on the side of the person's who are making the claim. Not the other way around..... Nothing like wanting someone else to do the work for them.....
" If dowsing does not work, the Spanish would not have used it as much as they did."
yeah, right on
and if bloodletting didn't make people healthy so many doctors wouldn't have done it
.... Such personality types will never find the truth because if something does not work for them in the first three tries, they think it will not work for anyone. ...
....I would not be fool enough to show them proof either....
... "No, that will not work". Such attitude is in their minds like a dreaded disease. Many times during my career, I heard it and it made me sick. ...
Casca: You say you tried to duplicate the experiment and worked with some optics in the military. No you did not duplicate it. You fell short. If you had duplicated, you would have gotten the same results. Even before you started experimenting, most likely your work with optics in the military had already given you an attitude or a mind set that it would not work anyway and all you were doing was proving that it would fail for you. It goes like this, combat plans are conceived by geniuses are executed by idiots. Get the point?
It was 1,000 time for Thomas Edison: As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times.The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." Imagine what it would be like if Edison had quit, just simply quit?Exactly as predicted. The person who tries it, to decide whether or not it works, will simply be told "you didn't try it long enough". If he tried it 3 times, well ... he should try it 5 times. If he tries it 5 times, well, ... he should try it 10 times. If he tries it 1 yr, well ... he needs 2 years. If he tries it 2 years, well .... he needs 4 years. And so forth into infinity.
It's the perfect shut down line on any attempt to question it. And if the skeptic, therefore , says to the faithful: Show us the proof, then the come-back lines are equally circular, as we are seeing here. The faithful will say "try it and see" . Or they'll say this:
Perhaps I'm wrong ,but is this along the lines of not showing your trophies, for fear of thieves, claim-jumpers, and the IRS ? If so, this is a common reply from those using un-conventional means. They will assure you that they do indeed find big ticket treasures. But no proof will ever be forthcoming . When the skeptic says "show me", they will respond just as you did.
I have tried to point out that md'rs post show & tell ALL-THE-TIME. Hence why not the practioners of unconventional methods? They will say: That's because md'rs are just getting the individual coins or rings. Or small bread & butter caches. As opposed to those using these unconventional controversial means are getting the big-ticket treasures. Hence fearing thieves, IRS, and claim-jumpers. Thus no show & tell.
Actualy, is was 1,000 time for Thomas Edison: As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times.The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
From what I have read on this subject of digital Cameras capturing auroras, like Edison, it make take some, including myself for one reason or the other, 1,000 or more times to get it right. Evidently it took Dave V. of England 3 years of testing to get it right. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, it is impressive and inspirational, as it is guys like him that makes the world go around and that much better. How committed is one is the foundation to it all.
Oh, but you can put an elephant into a sandwich bag if the bag is big enough. The challenge is to make the bag big enough to put an elephant in it, not how to make an elephant smaller than it already is and sandwich bag can be made to that size. Maybe you are thinking there is an attempt here to make elephants smaller, so to speak.Lesjcbs, You are a good sport. And I like that you think out your responses. It shows you are giving fair game to what others have written to question things. And I respect that very much.
As for what you've written here , the analogy (light bulb, for example) does in fact hold water ONLY if the following premise is a "given" : That the item being discussed can work. So for example, we know that light bulbs DO work. But how is that necessarily a starting premise for the gold-photograph issue ?
Or let me put it this way: If I told you it was possible for you to put an elephant in a plastic sandwich baggie, you might say "that's impossible". And if you or I tried 10 or 100 times and couldn't do it, what's to stop me from giving you the exact same Edison light-bulb analogy ?
Do you see that the light-bulb Edison example only works because it's true that a light bulb *could* be invented. Contrast to an elephant in a sandwich baggie which will forever be impossible. Or how about my peanut butter covered tennis shoe ? It will forever be unworkable, despite the Edison example. No amount of practice or testing or effort can make an impossible task become possible.
I think that just like the rest of us, you are going to have to grab your camera, put a filter on it and go find out for yourself.Ok then. I'm all game to see something (results) beyond staged tests.