Test your knowledge (this foxed me!)

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Owain wrote:
On 23 Feb, 07:59, tony sayer wrote:
A mate was telling me that some were trying to resurrect A Band 1 405
line service sometime perhaps from Ally Pally?...

That would be nice, especially if it had the original programming.

Ah - The Grove Family followed by the Potter's Wheel...

Owain

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bugbear said the following on 22/02/2010 12:29:
Brian Gaff wrote:
Psychic? Kind of reminds me of an episode where someone wanted to
test if dousers really knew what they were about and could actually
locate things underground. The test was very inconclusive as it
happened, but it was done at or near Crystal Palace, and the dousers
complained the aerials upset their detection somewhat....

Dowsers always fail, and there's *always* an excuse.

BugBear

What insterest me is whether those people who could pick up broadcasts
from their fillings whilst biting into foil, do they still pick up
broadcasts digitally now? ;-)

"Richard Brooks" wrote in message
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What insterest me is whether those people who could pick up broadcasts
from their fillings whilst biting into foil, do they still pick up
broadcasts digitally now? ;-)

Only if they put the foil on their fingernails.

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In article
,
Owain wrote:
On 23 Feb, 07:59, tony sayer wrote:
A mate was telling me that some were trying to resurrect A Band 1 405
line service sometime perhaps from Ally Pally?...

That would be nice, especially if it had the original programming.

Ah - The Grove Family followed by the Potter's Wheel...



If I was forced to choose, it would certainly have to be the Grove Family
over Eastenders any day!

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:45:40 GMT, "Ivan" wrote:



"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article
,
Owain wrote:
On 23 Feb, 07:59, tony sayer wrote:
A mate was telling me that some were trying to resurrect A Band 1 405
line service sometime perhaps from Ally Pally?...

That would be nice, especially if it had the original programming.

Ah - The Grove Family followed by the Potter's Wheel...



If I was forced to choose, it would certainly have to be the Grove Family
over Eastenders any day!

Indeed. I have watched very little Eastenders. I watched the very first
episode and decided it was too loud for my taste - too many people
shouting.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Feb 24, 12:47*pm, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:45:40 GMT, "Ivan" wrote:
Indeed. I have watched very little Eastenders. I watched the very first
episode and decided it was too loud for my taste - too many people
shouting.

Very common people as well.

Bill

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:59:17 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Feb 24, 12:47*pm, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:45:40 GMT, "Ivan" wrote:
Indeed. I have watched very little Eastenders. I watched the very first
episode and decided it was too loud for my taste - too many people
shouting.

Very common people as well.

Bill

And southerners.

Decades ago there was a letter to the Editor in the Radio Times. I think
there had been some discussion about differences between the four
countries of the UK: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The
letter writer said that culturally there were five countries: England,
Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In article ,
Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:59:17 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Feb 24, 12:47 pm, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:45:40 GMT, "Ivan" wrote:
Indeed. I have watched very little Eastenders. I watched the very first
episode and decided it was too loud for my taste - too many people
shouting.

Very common people as well.

Bill

And southerners.

Decades ago there was a letter to the Editor in the Radio Times. I think
there had been some discussion about differences between the four
countries of the UK: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The
letter writer said that culturally there were five countries: England,
Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London.

I once asked a Yorkshire born colleague which newspaper he read. "I always
read the local paper, so in London I buy The Times."

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

I doubt if dowsers have much insight to how their
abilities work (assuming it's not all deception), but
I wouldn't dismiss them just because no-one has come
up with a satisfactory test. After reading a quite
objective journalist's account of one successful
dowser (a farmer who specialised in finding water
sources for colleagues, saving them thousands of
pounds in water authority charges), I wondered if the
human body's nervous system might actually be capable
of detecting very weak electromagnetic fields, even
those caused by running water (in sufficient quantity).

The brain would normally filter these out as "noise"
but they could cause very small movements in the
nerves that are normally invisible but detectable by
finely-balanced rods. In a modern, urban environment,
there's so much electrical noise that it would be
difficult to detect one source, but it might still be
possible in the countryside.

Well I have seen this demonstrated out in the country side myself and
was offered a go and there was definitely -something- there, 'tho it
wasn't that repeatable.

One young girl trying it almost had the rods fly out of her hands she
and her mother looked very shocked indeed and a bit scared;!...

OTOH, you would think those aerials would have any
dowsing rods swinging wildly, if any of that were
true. However, any fields detectable by dowsing would
have to be of quite low frequency - maybe 50 Hz!

--
Tony Sayer

In article , Jim
wrote:


I doubt if dowsers have much insight to how their abilities work
(assuming it's not all deception), but I wouldn't dismiss them just
because no-one has come up with a satisfactory test. After reading a
quite objective journalist's account of one successful dowser (a
farmer who specialised in finding water sources for colleagues, saving
them thousands of pounds in water authority charges), I wondered if the
human body's nervous system might actually be capable of detecting
very weak electromagnetic fields, even those caused by running water
(in sufficient quantity).

You would then also need to show that "running water" actually produced
"very weak electromagnetic fields". Otherwise you end up back in the
mysterious world of the paranormal where pseudo-scientific use is made of
words like 'fields', 'energy' etc that have no relationship with their
meaning in mere science.

Actually I suspect that people *have* come up with "satisfactory" tests if
by that is meant "a test that could collect statistically assessible
results in the usual scientific method". However - as in some other areas
of pseudo-science - these tests may be dismissed as "unsatisfactory" by
those who don't like the idea that such tests then *don't* support the
belief in dowsing, magic crystals, etc, etc. TBH I suspect that such tests
*have* been done decades ago. But have been 'forgotten' because the mystics
didn't accept the results and the scientists have decided repeating the
tests is a waste of time if people won't accept results that clash with
their beliefs. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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