Date: 30 Mar 1995 21:07:58 GMT
Here's one to try at home, kids.
Get two welding rods, three feet long.
Get two pieces of copper tubing, each six inches long.
The diameter should be larger than the rods, but not by
several times the size.
Bend 6 inches of each rod at 90 degrees. Make the bend a
sharp one, a tight corner.
Insert the short end of the rod into the tubing.
The rod should be able to swing freely.
Hold one in each hand.
Learn to balance them so that they don't flop around from
side to side, and so you can walk holding them relatively
straight parallel in front of you.
You now have a functional dowsing rod.
Test it.
Set up something with running water, out of sight, so that
you can walk around and try to find it. Obviously this will
take some help, so you don't know where it's at.
When the rods go over the running water, they will cross.
I've seen grown men get pissed and throw these things to the
ground because the damn thing refused to act rational. It
kept crossing over the running water despite the fact that
they TRIED to make it stay parallel.
These things work great, whether or not the person using
them believes in this stuff at all. And that has got to be
one of the funniest things to watch, blowing away peoples
'rational' belief systems. Hell, even *I* don't believe in
this stuff, and they work for me, but luckily I'm not stupid
enough to DISbelieve it.
{ref. '"Bob's" Scary Powers'}
--
dynasor@infi.net The Doctor is on.
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From: gilmore@en.com (Gilmore)
Subject: Re: Neat Toy
I myself have experimented with such dowsing rods and have come
up with good results as well (they go wild when held over a
toilet). But let's face it; just how useful is it to discover
running water? Maybe this will be valuable after our Xist
"friends" arrive, but for now, I think I can find my way to a
faucet. What we need are dowsing rods for more modern purposes
like:
Finding a cheap bar
Finding a cheap woman in a cheap bar (or man, or squid, et al)
Finding a cheap woman with no diseases (or man, or squid, et
al)
Finding true Yetisyny in a crowd of normals
Finding 'frop
Finding SubGenius books in a bookstore (might be too hard)
Finding a non-sarcastic, non-egotistical SubGenius (again,
might be too hard)
Finding "Bob" (might be impossible)
But hell, with a proper research grant from the Foundation, I'm
sure we could come up with some interesting results. How 'bout
it Stang?
-- Pope-King Biggles I
"If you don't like me saying 'fuck you', then why do you act
so STUPID!!!"
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From: dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)
Biggles (biggles1@delphi.com) wrote:
: Finding 'frop
I've already found an effective "dowsing rod" for this. A hacky sack.
Really. Go to any "youth hangout" such as a coffee shop or public park,
and start hacky sacking. Soon, some hippies will join in on the hack,
and you can hit them up for some cheap 'frop. This has worked well for
me in numerous college towns.
Praise "Bob"!
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From: bdb@shadow.net (Doktor BoogieDown)
Simple physics. The running water carries electrical charges, creating
a current of sorts. It's impreceptible as voltage, but it is there, and
at a pretty constant rate. So, this electrical current is crossing the
planet's magnetic field in such a way as to cause a small "burst" of
magnetism in a very focused trajectory.
A compass wouldn't pick this up, as it is focused on the planet's magnetic
spehere itself, not burst fields of small intensity running perpendicular
to the surface on which you stand (or roughly perp, depending on the angle
of the water travel). However, two parallel rods of metal could detect this,
as they would become magnetized within the field.
Or, I may have just smoked too much frop.
Doktor BoogieDown
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