arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
This would have been a great humourous story if it weren't for the last couple of paragraphs.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24961392-13762,00.html
This is a respected news site. Why do they have to include that kind of rubbish?
It reminds me of a very interesting show I watched on Discovery yesterday about Chinese ships. It mentioned the 1421 theory that Chinese treasure ships made landfall on the west coast of the USA. There was a guy trying to find the remains of such a ship. Get this - he dowsed its location!
All done completely question-free, the show showed this guy and his team of diviners trying to get evidence that the ship was down there. They did manage to bore up some wood splinters, which were triumphantly announced as being "chinese wood" with no corroborating evidence whatsoever. They were just splinters!
Anyway, he totally failed to find anything more substantial, despite having dowsed the complete outline of the ship. The guy speculated as to why they failed to uncover anything, saying that it was probably atmospheric conditions. Never once was dowsing presented as anything other than a valid method of finding stuff underground.
Anyway, that segment spoiled an otherwise extremely interesting show in the same way that mentioning the vapid opinions of a so-called "pet psychic" spoiled a perfectly interesting article.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24961392-13762,00.html
This is a respected news site. Why do they have to include that kind of rubbish?
It reminds me of a very interesting show I watched on Discovery yesterday about Chinese ships. It mentioned the 1421 theory that Chinese treasure ships made landfall on the west coast of the USA. There was a guy trying to find the remains of such a ship. Get this - he dowsed its location!
All done completely question-free, the show showed this guy and his team of diviners trying to get evidence that the ship was down there. They did manage to bore up some wood splinters, which were triumphantly announced as being "chinese wood" with no corroborating evidence whatsoever. They were just splinters!
Anyway, he totally failed to find anything more substantial, despite having dowsed the complete outline of the ship. The guy speculated as to why they failed to uncover anything, saying that it was probably atmospheric conditions. Never once was dowsing presented as anything other than a valid method of finding stuff underground.
Anyway, that segment spoiled an otherwise extremely interesting show in the same way that mentioning the vapid opinions of a so-called "pet psychic" spoiled a perfectly interesting article.
