[meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining rods over a large iron)

[JoshuaTreeMuseum]

OK, here's what I'm going to do.  I'm going to take Michael Murray up on his 
original proposition that started this crazy thread. I'm going to make some 
divining rods like Warren's dad made. Then I'll bury a 10 kilo Odessa 
meteorite a foot underground. I will then see if it shorts out the Earth's 
magnetic field enough to affect the electro-chemical reactions in my brain 
producing a muscular twitching resulting in the crossing of the magical 
rods. I will have 3 other people try it that don't know where the meteorite 
is buried for a sort of triple blind experiment. I will disguise the hole so 
they can't see it. I'll report back the results. This groundbreaking 
experiment will settle this silly argument once and for all. (Notice how I 
brought the thread back to the subject of meteorites!)

Phil Whitmer

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Hi Chris & list,

While I agree with you , I must do so with a small grain of salt.

I nearly quoted your previous email statement to my father regarding 
divining rods .

He smiled at me, went inside and brought out 2 coat hangers. He cut them and 
produced two straightened pieces of wire. He then bent them both the same 
way, nearly at a 90 degree angle with one end longer than the other. He then 
held the short ends, one in each and hand, loosely out in front of him. He 
walked across the lawn over a buried water pipe and the two wires went from 
pointing forward to crossing each other. They crossed exactly when he walked 
over the pipe and then uncrossed when he was past it.

I didn't believe any of it, so he handed them to me. Like a fool ( I felt 
like one, holding two pieces of wire walking around), I took them and 
repeated what he had done. Damned if they didn't cross exactly the same way. 
I could back up slowly and they would move slowly at the same time, crossing 
when over the pipe.

I took this situation to school. A professor listened and proposed we try 
some tests. All in all.... our conclusion was that you can call it bunk, but 
if you were thirsty, you could find water pipes easily.

I have not found much REAL data on the subject. My own theories about why 
the wire worked wouldn't jive with sticks or plastics.... While I didn't 
believe in it scientifically I can honestly say, if I were dying of thirst 
and had to find water underground in a pipe(lol) you'd find me with some 
coat hangers and a glass.

Warren Sansoucie
IMCA #3174
St. Louis MO