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He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
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> From: Jerry W. Decker <jdecker@keelynet.com>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz
> Subject: Re: Gold
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 9:22 PM
>
> Hi Billy et al!
>
> You wrote;
> > Tho when a person watches and mentally tries to make it come up heads
> > or tails more, the odds get very very screwy. There is no way to
> > effect the odds of the test other than on a mental level.
>
> A year or so ago, a study was done with baby chickens placed in a room
> with a robot that was simply a motor with microswitches so that if ran
> into anything, it would back up a few inches, rotate about 45 to 90
> degrees and drive forward.
>
> The path of this robot was monitored as it moved all by itself in a room
> and found to be completely random.
>
> When baby chicks were placed in the room in a small pen, the robot had a
> decided tendency to 'hang around' the chicks. I never saw the complete
> report on this experiment but it was something on the order of 70-80% of
> the robots travels would bring it as close to the chick pen as possible.
>
> Amazed the researchers and led them to thinking that inanimate objects
> are attracted for some reason to animate objects....there were other
> experiment done that gave similar weighted results when living bodies
> were introduced as opposed to non-living...
>
> I just thought your mention of the randomness studies was intriguing. I
> have two reports sent to me by a lady scientist friend at Princeton who
> is heavily involved in such research and the anomalies definitely
> indicate something strange is going on. Eventually they'll get it to
> techniques that people can learn so they can use the effect for
> themselves.
> --
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