Straighten a metal coat hanger, and then make a 90 bend about 5 inches from the end. Do this to another coat hanger. I point my index fingers toward each other and then curl them slightly. Then balance the inside of the angle over your index finger, and use your thumbnail to prevent the rods from falling forward. The rods should be parallel and face the ground at about a 10 degree angle from the terrain. Takes some practice to balance them and keep them parallel, but your thumbnail should be smooth enough to allow free rotation.i have done it. they worked. we had a fountain of water coming out of our yard, a previously unknown water main going to a private drive behind our property. the city said there was no line there and it was our problem. we used 2 pieces of coat hanger and found the line, traced it to the street and found the shutoff before the city would even send someone to look at the fountain. Our neighbor was an old farmer and showed me how to do it. I am the one who was holding the rods and i thought he was crazy. i did not think it would work.
Straighten a metal coat hanger, and then make a 90 bend about 5 inches from the end. Do this to another coat hanger. I point my index fingers toward each other and then curl them slightly. Then balance the inside of the angle over your index finger, and use your thumbnail to prevent the rods from falling forward. The rods should be parallel and face the ground at about a 10 degree angle from the terrain. Takes some practice to balance them and keep them parallel, but your thumbnail should be smooth enough to allow free rotation.
Then walk slowly, keeping the rods parallel and freely moving. I got them to spread in my parent's front lawn over the water pipe. I think a lot has to do with the pipe type, what it is filled with, the depth, your height, and the ground type.
It is an interesting phenomenon, but hardly reliable and accurate enough to do anything but the most rough estimate of some buried items.
Straighten a metal coat hanger, and then make a 90 bend about 5 inches from the end. Do this to another coat hanger. I point my index fingers toward each other and then curl them slightly. Then balance the inside of the angle over your index finger, and use your thumbnail to prevent the rods from falling forward. The rods should be parallel and face the ground at about a 10 degree angle from the terrain. Takes some practice to balance them and keep them parallel, but your thumbnail should be smooth enough to allow free rotation.
Then walk slowly, keeping the rods parallel and freely moving. I got them to spread in my parent's front lawn over the water pipe. I think a lot has to do with the pipe type, what it is filled with, the depth, your height, and the ground type.
It is an interesting phenomenon, but hardly reliable and accurate enough to do anything but the most rough estimate of some buried items.
I have heard it has to do with a type of anaerobic, iron-consuming bacteria, that typically congregate where a trench has been formed. When these bacteria die, their "bodies" orient North-to-south (magnetic poles) due to their iron content. It is this N-S field that the rods detect. Don't know if it's true. I do know that a few weeks ago I saw a renowned engineer use this technique to locate pipes several times, in several different locations. He explained the bacteria phenomenon, and said the rods are detecting the presence of the trench (as indicated by the bacteria), not the pipes themselves.
They are like using a pendulum. They are tools from which you derive information from your subconscious mind.
Look into hypnosis with a pendulum response. That should tell you all that you need to know. It is the same thing just different tools.
I have heard it has to do with a type of anaerobic, iron-consuming bacteria, that typically congregate where a trench has been formed. When these bacteria die, their "bodies" orient North-to-south (magnetic poles) due to their iron content. It is this N-S field that the rods detect. Don't know if it's true. I do know that a few weeks ago I saw a renowned engineer use this technique to locate pipes several times, in several different locations. He explained the bacteria phenomenon, and said the rods are detecting the presence of the trench (as indicated by the bacteria), not the pipes themselves.
Diving rods are classic pseudoscience. Don't feel bad for falling for it, but for the love of all things rational... watch this vid: http://youtu.be/b_6-iVz1R0oi did not try them. but I did watch the guy use them, and they worked perfectly well. i also know he said it took him years of practise to perfect the technique.
Then how do you explain my divining rod, which is real good at finding lady parts in the dark?Divining rods are classic pseudoscience.
:biggrin:Then how do you explain my divining rod, which is real good at finding lady parts in the dark?
And the successes can be remembered more readily than failures, especially if you're good at playing the part.If only i had no conscience... a solid science background is all you need to create pseudoscience fixes for just about anything imaginable... damn shame... there's money to be made $$$$ in tricking people
Exactly. Or how many behaviors are just evolutionary in nature? Loss aversion, for example; my take on it, anyway: Give someone $100. Ok, that's good. I can buy fun stuff now. Thanks! Now take $10 from someone else, and either get beaten up, shot, or otherwise injured.A lot of psuedoscience has its roots in very ancient behaviors that kept us alive before civilization.
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I thought it wasn't the size of the brain but the surface area that determined intelligence.
Are the two different?
True, but there is some truth when comparing various animal species (humans included here). I'll write the following with very general conceptual ideas... nothing too specific:At least when comparing between humans neither the size nor the surface area of the brain seems to be directly linked to level of intelligence. I think we can say that intelligence is a function of a lot more variables then simple size or surface area.