Molotov Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 ...Also known as ORME, ormus, or m-state elements. http://www.asc-alchemy.com/hudson.html Basically this guy has found a way to extract 2400 ounces to the ton of rare metals(mainly from the platinum group) out of regular soil found on his farm in Arizona. He also claims this metal extract exhibits extremely odd properties such as acting as a superconductor at room temperate. Its very good read even though most of it is likely pseudoscience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 He also claims this metal extract exhibits extremely odd properties such as acting as a superconductor at room temperate. And yet you never see a rich pseudoscientist. What a confusing world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 And yet you never see a rich pseudoscientist. What a confusing world we live in. I like the observation, though it's not quite true. Rich pseudoscientific inventors cashed in by selling their idea to other people, not by selling the device itself. Just like the guys selling get-rich-quick books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 By rich I mean rich, not temporarily advantaged by a windfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetrahedrite Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 And yet you never see a rich pseudoscientist. What a confusing world we live in. I would most definitely have to disagree! In Australia, pseudoscience is pushed as fact on the television and radio, with things such as magnetic blankets and pillows (amongst other things) and magic (or energy) water. The gullible masses are buying these in enormous quantities and are believing the rubbish "science" that goes along with it. The people selling these things are almost certainly making a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Pseudoscience != marketing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artorius Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Authors of pseudoscience seem to be making a good living,plenty which appear on the best sellers list on a regular basis....so it would seem they are plenty of rich pseudo's and the opposite for actual scientists.Im sure one could find examples of famous scientists died penniless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Again, that's not selling the pseudoscience, that's selling the bunkum behind it. Damn Hawking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Thankfully, the majority of pseudos who publish do it via vanity publishers, so they don't make much profit even if they get volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Erin Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Has anyone been trying to replicate this mysterious powder? All the claims this guy has made should be easily (dis)provable. CAN we break the bonds in the atomic structure of gold in order to reduce it to a non-reactive powder with unique properties (without vaporizing what's left of this doomed little planet?)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Why would we want to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Erin Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 ...because if there is any truth at all to his claims about this substance, its potential is almost limitless: - antigravity technology - medical applications - fuel cell technology At the very least the smart scientist would start buying stock in gold and platinum before dumb blind consumer curiosity drives the prices up. You can't mean that not even one of the physicists currently researching "gold films" or the like couldn't tear themselves away for long enough to simply check. Isn't science in its pure form about curiosity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 At the very least the smart scientist would start buying stock in gold and platinum before dumb blind consumer curiosity drives the prices up. He's been doing this for what, 30 years? Wouldn't that have happened already? I think the smart scientist knows snake-oil when he sees it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 No, I mean why would we want to turn gold into a non-reactive powder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Erin Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 I mean non-reactive in the sense that it (supposedly) becomes like stone, and no longer exhibits the properties of a metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Erin Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 ...also, I never meant to imply that anyone here was not smart. I just meant that if there was any truth to this (or even if there isn't) rumors of gold as a cure-all would drive up stock prices as every joe-investor jumped on the bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MM Believer Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 I'm just touching on ORME's at the moment through Laurence Gardner's The Magdaleine Legacy and quite an honestly obsurd thought crossed my mind and I do expect you all to laugh heartily at this: Those of you who are historically informed may know what I am talking about when it comes to Jesus and the Davidic Lineage (please stay with me here). Alchemists and more recently the Knights Templars had knowledge on how to create this material and the anti-gravity element of this got me thinking that if there were in fact descendants of Jesus still alive in the world today is there any evidence of anything strange that might be related. Well the one and only instance I can find of a human who may also have the passed down knowledge of ORME's to the extent of using it for anti-gravity purposes showed people in a very busy street. Telling people to watch because he was going to float about a foot off the ground, which he does with no aid and at different parts of the street. His name? (This is where you laugh!) David Blaine. Outrageous? Possibly, but it's a thought I had a couple of years ago that if anyone on earth at this moment was a descendant from the Davidic Line like Jesus then to me David Blaine was a definite. Hope you have all stopped aching with laughter by now ;-) Ade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarchaus Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 ...Also known as ORME' date=' ormus, or m-state elements. http://www.asc-alchemy.com/hudson.html Basically this guy has found a way to extract 2400 ounces to the ton of rare metals(mainly from the platinum group) out of regular soil found on his farm in Arizona. He also claims this metal extract exhibits extremely odd properties such as acting as a superconductor at room temperate. Its very good read even though most of it is likely pseudoscience.[/quote'] why does it seem that every "new" metal or element that is found, it always corrisponds to our knowledge of atomic phisics and mettalurgical properties. 50 years ago its a new metal that will bend, then return to normal, then its a super light element that is super strong, but then now its toned down to a room temperature superconducter. The point is, all these "discoveries are always metals and stuff that is JUST beyond out capacities, so its always new and interesting. 50 years ago heat treated aluminum and titanium alloys did not exsist, and a super light high tensile strenght alloy shows up. Now its a room temperature superconducter, which is out of our reach, these people are feeding off of the publics ignorance, or "dangling the carrot in front of the horse" It is my quasi professional opinion that this is total bunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarchaus Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 And yet you never see a rich pseudoscientist. What a confusing world we live in. Absolutly correct, these guys are the science version of the dudes who streak during superbowl games, they want their 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Absolutly correct, these guys are the science version of the dudes who streak during superbowl games, they want their 15 minutes. Some are charlatans, but some are true believers that have deluded themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalove Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 as erin said in one posting, "all the claims this guy has made should be easily (dis)provable." well, who is doing the research? i mean reading about this stuff really messed me up. gardner shows a clip of a bbc news report that says british airways are working on anti-gravity technology. is this stuff all a hoax? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 as erin said in one posting, "all the claims this guy has made should be easily (dis)provable." well, who is doing the research? i mean reading about this stuff really messed me up. gardner shows a clip of a bbc news report that says british airways are working on anti-gravity technology. is this stuff all a hoax? yes its all a hoax. british airways employ engineers who are pretty clued up on physics so they know that its impossible (at least within the next 100 years unless aliens show us how). If soil had that much rare earth metals in it it would already be feasible to process them out by standard methods. And soil has been analysed in spectroscopes, mass spectrometers, chemically. we know the composition of soil quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tree Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 If soil had that much rare earth metals in it it...Then they wouldn't be called rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 And the first nominee for "Resurrecting a dead thread" goes to......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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