Only two this time, and both German:
- Die Mondlandungslüge – oder warum es eben keine ist; Florians Übersichtsartikel aus dem Skeptiker. (Natürlich schon mit vielen Kommentaren…)
- “Die übliche Diskussion” über den Glauben bei sapere aude
Only two this time, and both German:
…criticism, grumbling, call it what you want. At any rate, here I’m writing about today’s show “Uri Geller live – Ufos & Aliens – Das unglaubliche Live-Experiment” (“The incredible live experiment”) on ProSieben (Germany).
You can even have your own message sent into space – but if you’re hoping for a real reply, you’re hoping in vain, the distances are just too long, and if there actually are intelligent beings “out there”, they’d have to understand the messages in the first place. No matter how pretentious the chief spoon fiddler’s talk is (my translation):
“Anything can happen”, Uri Geller says. He, too, has a personal message for the aliens: “We open our hearts and out thoughts for you. We strongly believe that you are somewhere out there. Please show yourselves in the night of November 15. The people will look out their windows and wait for your signal.”
Be careful, Uri, when the people look out the windows, they miss the commercials, and ProSieben won’t like that!
What did ali comment at Florian’s live blogging (German) who’d also have liked to read along (translated):
But I’m already appointed for a fondue. Lots of cheese, too, but better.
Well then bon appetit – which I also wish my readers with this nice mess. After commercials with aliens in them in talk talk talk for accomodation, they’re starting overly punctual with Gödde’s and Geller’s prerecorded introduction and the Ukrainian radiotelescope, Geller promises that some of us will receive a reply, and the raven guy will take care of the soul contact – but somehow I’m missing the warning message “Don’t try this at home!” from the magic show…
A pale head with alien face tattoo on its back was briefly seen, then Gödde alredy starts with a lie by saying there will be messages sent into space for the first time – more respectable people have done so already via radio and space probes as well as more or less intentional all radio and TV stations for a long time.
But first a little film as introduction with some “c-lebrities” and Geller himself saying a few sentences. Geller says we’d deserve a true answer. From him? Impossible. Impossible in a different sense, too, the amount of applause he gets when entering the stage and reporting about his large ball of light as a child. The biggest experiment of his life is what is supposed to happen tonight – I rather think that was the test whether his cheap spoon trick would bring him success back then – and us viewers are to get pen and paper ready.
Switch to the Deep Space Center in Evpatoria/Ukraine, brief introduction of the radiotelescope – no money left for 16:9 in the recording, apparently, the presenter colleague Daniel Aminati looked quite fat. Direction of the ‘scope will be the star Hip 4872, 310 trillion kilometers away from us (32.8 lightyears, in the area of the Cassiopeia constellation). And the speed of light is “absolute madness” for him.
More specifically: the physical constants – here’s an excerpt:
Mass of the sun MS = 1.98892⋅1030 kg
½ blogAge / √spams = 1,98880 — coincidence?
(blog age in days: 797)
Boltzmann constant k = 8.6174 eV/K
½⋅√publicThongWearers = 8.6168 — coincidence??
(see my poll “men in thongs”)
Electron mass me = 0.511 MeV/c²
(Lotto/UriGeller)1,5 = 0.511 — coincidence???
(total page views of posts with corresponding tags)
Speed of light c = 2.99792458⋅108 m/s
Pierre² √David / √(Michael⋅Julia³) = 2.99799005 — coincidence????
(total numbers of comments)
Of course coincidence. That is, applied “Cyclosophy” which is mentioned today on Mathlog (German) (my translation):
Cyclosophy, developed by Dutch astronomer de Jager, was a parody on some physical papers which based scientific ‘theories’ on coincidental similarities of numbers.
Such as measurements of a bike.
And such relationships between nine physical constants and five numbers of your choice can be calculated online at bei hars.de, which I just did with a few statistics of my blog.
Photo: david bautista – Fotolia.com
Or: Video of the week (or the month) that can’t wait until Sunday:
“Here Be Dragons – An Introduction to Critical Thinking”
A freee 40-minute video by Brian Dunning – watch it!
Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.
Also available on the homepage in higher quality and even as DVD image.
(via GWUP-Blog)