Just had to share this hilarious paradigm of pseudoscience with everyone:

 

http://www.alexchiu.com/

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahahahah cough cough...I'm okay. I'm actually crying at this very moment. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen!

 

Warning though, I clicked on the link and now I get a bunch of pop-ups! But it can be fixed.

sorry, i use the google toolbar so had no idea about the popups.

That's cool, it turns out it's just when the page is up. When you go to another page or click out it stops.

So... it's a plastic ring with button magnets in it?

 

WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!

We're all too stupid to think of it.

Funny.. he has the weekly world news in his testimonials. Weekly world news is a TABLOID! I mean, the current issue is about Osama giving up to be with Saddam (he's gay).

And all those pictures for proof, they make him look older. So it's no proof.

I invented the ion engine that can go 4 times the speed of light. No one will buy it! What am I going to do.

Put it on the internet. Duh.

I did, but when people bought it they wanted to return it. Like a the engine out of an old lawn mowing doesn't go faster than the speed of light. You can see the blades moving it's just a blur, so it must be giong faster than the speed of light.

Obviously the placebo effect doesn't work on things besides medicine.

Seems to work quite well in pelican crossings.

What?

Oh, pelican crossings. No really, what is it.

The traffic lights that are there for the benefit of pedestrians. You press the button and wait for the lights to change, then cross the road. Those things.

Oh, those. I never really thought they did anything anyway.

Maybe they should make the button generate power. Put them in high-pedestrian areas.

My brother says that one he knows of (pedestrian crossing lights) NEVER change until you hit the button.

There's a theory here that the majority of buttons are just placebos and don't actually do anything. The only reason I can think of that would support that is that it would be abit stupid to give the throngs of random pedestrians arbitrary control over inner city traffic flow.

You mean those buttons don't do anything? Is there anything else like that? Wow.

Do you see the bit that says THEORY?

 

Don't reply.

Yes, lifts (elevators) in high rise buildings, desingned in such a way that more you press them the longer the lift will take to get to you

 

actualy the pedestrian crossing kit rellies on a count/time program and are linked to alot more than just the lights you`re standing at

the actuators are either "break beam" or pressure tubes, 1 in one out kinda thing on a double knock discriminator (usefull too for speed calculations also taken into account).

 

I was only kidding about the Lifts though

I could tell.

What are they linked to?

YT But there are those annoying "gravity" street lights, that only switch to green when they "feel" the gravity of a car.

 

And those damn things WORK alright, I once waited almost 30 minutes in red light because some bozo decided to replace his wheel EXACTLY on that annoying weight thing.

It was a non-central route, but still. Those things WORK.

 

Some of them are psychological, but some of them are the CAUSE of psychological tension

 

~moo

They don't go on weight, they go on a metal detector.

O/T!!!!!!!!!!!!

(What's O/T) ?

 

and... errr... yes they do ... O.O

 

That guy was changing his wheel for 30 minutes and the ilght was constantly green for his side of the road..

 

well its not THAT important but... err.. yah

 

~moo

It's "off topic".

 

If Cap'n Refsmmat wants to believe there's no variation in technology across the planet, I say we let him.

I saw a cross walk button thing and I looked behind it and there weren't any wires attached, only a two metal bands holding to the pole!