Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> The only way to scientifically determine whether a claim is valid or 
>>> not is to, you know, actually investigate it. If we wrote off 
>>> anything that sounded too weird, human kind would never have advanced 
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>> No argument there. Now.. Given how only the people that cheat, lie, 
>> stack the deck, or consider "Blair Witch" style theatrics, followed by 
>> babbling, "That random sound sort of sounded like...", or, "Gee that 
>> random camera glitch moved like moved 'purposefully', why can't we 
>> drop the supposed paranormal already? Oh, and I love that last one, 
>> "move purposefully". By whose definition, by what criteria? That its 
>> less random than some other random light? More? Moved in what you 
>> *think* is a pattern? What the hell does "moved purposefully" even 
>> fraking mean without context of the ability to determine what the 
>> purpose *is*?
> 
> The military weren't studying the entire zoo of paranormal claims, they 
> studied one specific aspect: the claim that certain people can see 
> events distant in space and possibly time. This one is quite easy to 
> verify one way or the other. They tried; the statistics were 
> unimpressive; they gave up and shut down the project. Seems like a 
> non-WTF to me.
> 
>> Its been tested and retested ***over and over*** thousands of times, 
> 
> It has *now*. Not sure about back when this study was done...
> 
lol True enough. Doesn't stop people from *continuing* to test it. There 
is even a group of *ex-subjects* from the original military test that 
are still busy babbling about how it *does* work, the military still 
secretly uses it, and using the same unimpressive BS as "proof" of it. 
Go figure..

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