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“The Next Uri Geller” 2008 – 7th show (semifinal): opinion, tricks, explanations

2008-02-19

This is about a show from the first German season of “The Next Uri Geller” from early 2008. You can also:
» Show all my reports from the first season.
» Show everything about the second season 2009.
» Show really all articles about Uri Geller.

General reading tips (German): GWUP info page; and the blog with explanations and discussion already during the shows: The contestants’ tricks, explained in an easy way. English: CSI (ex-CSICOP).

The seventh show from 19 February

Natalie Geller

From the preview on ProSieben.de – with an interview with Uri’s daughter:

Did Natalie Geller inherit her father’s mystic talents?

verbogen When she appears in this show, she must have inherited some of his “talent” of pretending mystic powers. But she is (even officially) an actress…

What will be the “unique mental experiment” (ProSieben’s word choice, of course)? Together bending a large spoon for which the physical powers of daddy alone are not enough anymore?

From the interview (my translation):

Do the Gellers eat their soup only with chopsticks?
(laughs) It hasn’t come this far yet. But seriously: I experienced it a thousand times when I wanted to get a spoon and opened the cutlery drawer that everything inside was bent – from the dessert spoon to the giant soup ladle. My father can’t always control his enormous mental powers.

That was bound to happen…

But even Uri’s “powers” are limited:

That’s why we’re eating at home always with platinum cutlery especially made for us, which handles two centimeters thick. Nothing will bend there, for sure!

That’s so supid that it’s funny again.

Furthermore, Geller’s spoon bending sometimes affected the spoon’s cup – or are they as thick? I imagine that’s pretty uncomfortable…

What are you going to show us this tuesday?
Together with my father, I want to build up a telepathic connection into the German living rooms. And the nice thing about it: Every viewer can participate – and get in close mental contact with us …

No, I’m not saying anything about other kinds of close contacts with this 25-year-old actress. As long as her father’s envolved, that ain’t gonna be nice, anyway…

Introduction

Projekt 52 week 8: What frightens me?

2008-02-18

The topic of week 8 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:

What frightens me?

At first I was afraid I’d never have an idea what to present photographically on this topic… but wait, afraid to have no idea? Bingo! So I quickly grabbed my camera:

Week 8: What frightens me?

Maybe the fear of every blogger (and other kind of writer): No idea what to write about, represented by an almost empty WordPress window. The slight distorion caused by the low camera distance even somehow fits thematically…

Alright, it’s a very simple solution, but whatever.

Eeeeevil!

2008-02-18

The batons are currently flying around quite busily, and beginner villain Konna passed one to me, regarding the question “How evil are you?” He already suspected the result:

How evil are you?

Disclaimer: I do not work for AOL.

And I’ll be so evil to not pass this baton to anyone in particular, just let it lie here for anyone to take it…

Links of the Week (2008/07)

2008-02-17

Short and sweet:

Attempting an argument with oranges… (with video) – oranges are only very distantly related to pets, but still closer than “Intelligent Design” with science or the speaker in the video with intelligent, reasonable people.
Atheist sees image of Big Bang in piece of toast (via BA)
How creationists manipulated an old conference photo… (text in German) – or didn’t, seems I fell for an unnoticed satire there, especially because I didn’t take the time (for this brief “link of the week”) to read the English original article.
Stem cells: Much ado about nothing (German)
German cartoon: Personal spam for people without e-mail address.

Time travel, end of the world, or what?

2008-02-15

LHC It seems to be en vogue now to be busy with alleged effects of the new particle collider LHC (Large Hadron Collider) of the CERN which is planned to be completed this May – apart from the “end” of the Mayan calendar which pretendedly either spoil (or prevent) or enjoy us at our Christmas holidays 2012 (a topic even in the current edition of the TV magazine HörZu) – or just lets it start again from its beginning… what’s more realistic, given all those end-of-the-world prophecies that have been wrong all the time?

So recently, for instance, on Golem.de (German) a chaos researcher who probably sees himself as a great scientist found a place for his conspiracy theories and fearmongering about the creation of black holes with the LHC, allegedly threatening to swallow the earth, and the Daily Mail reports about two Russiam mathematicians who believe the particle collisions could create a door to the future, thus allowing time travel.
(via Blog mich am Arsch and JanneWap)

The “bad” thing about all this is just that all energy that the LHC can generate is still way smaller than the energy that are being released all naturally for billions of years when cosmic rays hit the earth’s atmosphere (and also other planets).

Where are the time travelers from the future? Where are the black holes that swallow the earth, why does the earth still exist, with human beings who can think about and blog about such stuff?

Either these time tunnels and black holes don’t exist at all (then the corresponding theory is wrong and the LHC, too, won’t be able to create them) – or they are unobtrusive and not dangerous. So why all that fuss about that?