Electronic video from NBC Africa - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / projects

author: produco
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 25, 2017, 07:23:32 pm
content: Can anyone explain what (if anything) has been developed in this video. This video was on NBC (equivalent of the BBC) with some people now lobbying the government/universities to help with funding.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 12:14:47 am
content: This is kind of psychological "medicine" of a shamanic nature to give people with little hope, hope, flawed as it is scientifically. This is classic cargo cult science, its quite natural human nature. Although associated with post WWII Pacific islands, here it is, quite at home in Africa, the birthplace of all humanity.What can be done? People need to invest money in giving all people a decent public educationwith attention paid to basics like math and the physical sciences.Not because it will necessarily lead to jobs, that quite possibly would never happen, because its the thing to do. We need a literate global society, everywhere.In the past this young man would have been able to get access to basic training in electronics and might have been able to go to college and become an engineer. Instead of that corruption has likely become entrenched leading to the state of affairs he describes at 1:54 which I feel is likely true.Note, I am not saying that his claims for this device have ANY validity at all, obviously at best at some point I suspect he might have built a battery and measured the current produced, but then my guess is the project self-transformed into something else..However, at the beginning, I suspect he started out trying to, and deserves to learn electronics. The real kind. Electronics can be valuable as a way of constructively occupying ones time. Even if the huge factories filled with workers are vanishing, even in the low wage countries.Can we really blame him for trying to inspire people to be innovators, somehow? Instead of as he articulately puts it, become drunks or thieves?How many members do we have here from Africa, apart from South Africa or the Arab nations around the Mediterranean? I haven't seen that many.

author: sarel.wagner
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 03:12:30 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on October 27, 2017, 03:01:05 amPlease explain decoloized science? As opposed to colonized science then I guess?

author: Audioguru
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 03:46:23 am
content: He cooked many things then he put "radio magnets" in the mixture so that it could "suck energy" from stupid people who believe what he is lieing about. He is like a quack doctor who is not really a doctor, he is a quack engineer who is not really an engineer.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 02:56:20 pm
content: Right now that is true. Unfortunately.Quote from: Audioguru on October 27, 2017, 03:46:23 amPseudoscience's devastating effects example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism--------Related to this thread and scary to me: look up "LDC Services Waiver".

author: ciccio
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 28, 2017, 08:19:52 pm
content: I do not want to be offensive in any way, but I don't see any real difference between what this young man claims having discovered and what other "geniuses" claim.I think about all the "free energy" machines once invented by Tesla but later hidden by the CIA or the Seven SistersThis young man lives in Africa (I did not understand the Country).He confuses science with magic, and he knows that magic carries a lot of money.My wife is African, and we lived there for some times, and maybe we will return...Magic (and whitchcraft) is built inside the African culture. I've seen African graduates from famous European Universities, when returning back to their family's town, rediscover the magical traditions of their people, and begin saying things that they would never say when in London or Paris..So, what about some magically produced energy...

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 28, 2017, 09:36:37 pm
content: This is classic cargo-cult behavior. And its much more common and universal to all societies, than we realize. "Modern" societies do it as much as "primitive" societies do.Cargo cult thinking is especially prevalent and problematic now as jobs dry up (everywhere).Making people vulnerable to all sorts of schemes. We should give people a good education so they won't fall victim to them. It's as good a reason as any.