Oh what bullshit - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 01:28:26 am
content: Well, it seems that people will pay for ghost hunting, and ghost hunting is a very well paying profession, well paying enough to be able to purchase a thermal camera. What a load of bullshithttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Flir-i5-Compact-Infrared-Thermal-Imaging-Camera-/281265733136Next up, ghost hunting oscilloscopes!

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 07:20:24 pm
content: I don't believe the guy is a ghost hunter, the description looks more like a joke or funny attention search.

author: 440roadrunner
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 08:12:43 pm
content: I'm embarrassed to say I personally have talked to such a person as a "paranormal research scientist"He seems to have lived somewhere around Goldendale, WA and we called him "Shaky Dave" His name is / was (not sure he's still with the actual living) Farnsworth, and he claims to be related to THE FarnsworthHe used to buy old HP optical (fiber) analyzers and uh..........."convert" them to "ghost detectors" ---Actually had them for sale on th' BayHe is as full of it as you can imagine.One night I kicked him (as in ran him off) of our group on 160M -- I told him he could stay if he would quit lying"What makes you think I'm lying?""Your lips are moving."Here is the "company" he had been involved withhttp://www.magne-tronix.com/id10.htmlhttp://www.magne-tronix.com/id9.htmlThis, allegedly, is some sort of "etherial image" "detected" by the "equipment"I must say that I'm really embarrassed to be forced to admit even knowing ABOUT this rain maker and his wagon

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 08:35:47 pm
content: one of the girls im screwing is into that ghost hunter shit.i just dont get it.

author: rexxar
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 09:13:25 pm
content: There was a report on a local news station about ghost hunters. Everyone took it really seriously. They came across a chalkboard in a haunted bar, and it said 'the cake is a lie'. The guy gave it some BS meaning and used it as proof of ghosts.I, of course, was laughing my ass off at this point.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 09:46:57 pm
content: I believe in ghosts, but think that ghost hunting is fake.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 10:05:17 pm
content: I used to believe in ghosts as well until I found out my mother threw my stuff (which seemed useless to her) away.

author: hamster_nz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 10:09:06 pm
content: All I can do is refer to XKCD.http://xkcd.com/1235/(and read the mouseover text).

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 17, 2014, 10:13:41 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on February 17, 2014, 10:05:17 pmHuh. An "Agilent" Looks old and clunky. Why doesn't sonny just use his new fancy whizbang computer.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2014, 12:59:02 pm
content: Ghosts are not real... although Kevin Rudd made a comeback and haunted an entire nation.Also not true palm reading, fortune telling, astrology, talking to the dead, or water divining. Why is it fortune tellers or astrologists don't win the lottery more often than other people? Why is it we never hear of ESP and biorhythms any more? Water diviners are just fools. I don't think you will find many electronics engineers and technicians who believe this rot.Those TV conmen who "talk to the dead" are just plain evil and wicked, playing with the emotions of the bereaved to make money.Doris Stokes was a con woman. James Randi was right.And what did happen to Kevin Arnett?

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 18, 2014, 02:16:30 pm
content: [quote author=VK3DRB link=topic=26963.msg389811#msg389811 date=139272834Also not true palm reading, fortune telling, astrology, talking to the dead, or water divining. Why is it fortune tellers or astrologists don't win the lottery more often than other people? Why is it we never hear of ESP and biorhythms any more? Water diviners are just fools. I don't think you will find many electronics engineers and technicians who believe this rot.If psychics are so psychic, why aren't they calling me to let me know I need them?

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2014, 05:06:43 pm
content: Quote from: deth502 on February 17, 2014, 08:35:47 pmDon't blame her, servicing dirty customers all day might distort one's sense of reality.

author: Sigmoid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2014, 05:25:25 pm
content: In Hungary, in the 1990s there was an extremely profitable enterprise known as the Witches' Association.It was comprised of neopagan rockers, drunkards and metalheads, and old cat ladies who like to do fortune telling as a hobby. Their business plan was really simple. They'd go into a small village, and find the richest, most garishly decorated house - usually owned by a local gypsy crime lord or something similar.They'd ring the doorbell, and tell the people living there that they are from the Witches' Association, and driving by they saw a huge, dark curse above the house. But, of course, being the benevolent crowd they are, they are willing to remove it right there and then, for a mere million Forints (approx. $5000).Usually, they got their money. And they didn't even have thermal cameras.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 18, 2014, 07:40:23 pm
content: on similar lines:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281266782229and yes, it is an AM/FM radio, it's been 'modded' so it continually seeks through the bands, apparently the spirits manipulate the airwaves and communicate to the user while it's seekingjust to clarify, i dont believe in ghosts, spirits (other then Jack Daniels!), paranormal activity etc or other imaginary friends for that matter

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2014, 12:30:44 pm
content: Quote from: dexters_lab on February 18, 2014, 07:40:23 pmHe says "very very rare" LOL!I once went to a live dinner cabaret show with my wife. Sitting at our table was a businessman who ran a horoscope phone service. He admitted to me it the horoscopes were rubbish and the phone service was designed simply to make money out of regular callers at $5 per minute. He justified it by saying he was providing a service to people with emotional problems.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2014, 04:56:13 pm
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on February 19, 2014, 01:52:07 pmI concur. Speaker cables made by nude virgins in utopia land for $20k anyone?

author: N2IXK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2014, 05:04:41 pm
content: You need to be REAL careful with those homeopathic drugs, though.The basic principle there is that the more highly diluted the stuff is, the more powerful it becomes. So if you screw up and forget to take your pill, you will die of a massive overdose....

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 19, 2014, 08:17:58 pm
content: Quote from: Vgkid on February 17, 2014, 09:46:57 pm:-) :-)