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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/06/2007 : 07:04:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I'm looking forward to The Amazing One's take on it. He'll likely mention it next week.
Unless these turkeys have managed to come up with new laws of physics, the results of their demonstration are entirely predictable: nothing, and should there be something, it'll be fraudulent. | To be honest, I see no cheating whatesoever, and no any way cheating could be done. The Orbo being demonstrated is literally transparent, so that people can see there are no hidden power wires. |
And that, friend 'Mooner, is the first, tentitive sign of a flim-flam, especally if it concerns the fantastic. The all-important appearence of innocence.
I gotta sawbuck sez it's a bust. Anybody want it?
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Well, to be honest, I was pretending innocence myself, as a rhetorical buildup for reporting the singular lack of motion in this perpetual motion machine. It really was cool to look at these still-life images, as people walked about in the background. Then, suddenly, all four cameras went dead, and I soon found the sad announcement of the closure of the exhibit. Breakthrough scientific nonhistory in the making, and I was there!
If I ran Steorn, I'd keep their Kinetica exhibit open. I would simply tell the world that Orbo doesn't move: It revolves the universe about itself.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2007 : 07:17:15 [Permalink]
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Somehow, the predictable non-movement of the Orbo reminds me of a childhood event. My mother had prepared a meal, and my little brother was still playing outside. For once, she decided not to call him for dinner, but to instead let his appetite be his guide. The rest of us sat down and began to eat. After a few minutes, my brother came in and looked accusingly at my mother.
"I heard you not calling me," he pouted.
Well, folks, today I saw Steorn not breaking the Laws of Thermodynamics.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/06/2007 07:30:36 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/06/2007 : 07:53:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by filthy
I'm looking forward to The Amazing One's take on it. He'll likely mention it next week.
Unless these turkeys have managed to come up with new laws of physics, the results of their demonstration are entirely predictable: nothing, and should there be something, it'll be fraudulent. | To be honest, I see no cheating whatesoever, and no any way cheating could be done. The Orbo being demonstrated is literally transparent, so that people can see there are no hidden power wires. |
And that, friend 'Mooner, is the first, tentitive sign of a flim-flam, especally if it concerns the fantastic. The all-important appearence of innocence.
I gotta sawbuck sez it's a bust. Anybody want it?
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Well, to be honest, I was pretending innocence myself, as a rhetorical buildup for reporting the singular lack of motion in this perpetual motion machine. It really was cool to look at these still-life images, as people walked about in the background. Then, suddenly, all four cameras went dead, and I soon found the sad announcement of the closure of the exhibit. Breakthrough scientific nonhistory in the making, and I was there!
If I ran Steorn, I'd keep their Kinetica exhibit open. I would simply tell the world that Orbo doesn't move: It revolves the universe about itself.
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Ah, another Futurama addict, I see. 
I must admit to a sadistic and slightly guilty pleasure whenever one of these things come along. They are such easy targets for all sorts of verbal mayhem that it is imposible to resist beating them to bloody rags.
But the believers in claptrap ever remain among us -- that ten-spot's still up for grabs folks, if anyone wants it. And unlike that PiPs fellow, I'll shoot off a paypal if I lose. And I'll expect to recieve the same when if I win.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2007 : 03:43:49 [Permalink]
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Here's a video of Steorn's CSO (Chief Scamming Officer) Sean McCarthy, sweating and almost stammering as he attempts to use his remaining Blarney skills to explain the Orbo's failure to the press.
McCarthy has a lot of 'splaining to do. And he'll need to do a better job of it, when his investors take him to court. Somehow, I have a hard time sympathizing with those investors, though. After all, in their greed they were knowing co-conspirators with Steorn to break the most fundamental laws of the cosmos.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/07/2007 04:14:54 |
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Be still my rolling eyes....
