Self-validating challenge

[bschmiduk]

http{colon, backslash, backslash}mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm

Article describes how to locate landmines via dowsing.
<sorry, system would not let me post a URL because I am a 'lurker' who does not post often. Still, thought it was amusing>

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[Loss Leader]

http://mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm



There you go.

[NorwegianSquirrel]

The author was trained in dowsing as an officer at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, and has since improved the basic skills.

Dowsing in the military? I find that hard to believe..

Mines can be located both from a distance and close at hand.

Yup, I'd use a handful of rocks...

[wahrheit]

http://mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm



There you go.

Your link seems kaput. This one works: http://mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm

Btw, Randi mentioned that page in his June 6, 2003 SWIFT commentary (http://www.randi.org/jr/060603.html).

[Silly Green Monkey]

But those two links are identical.

[Lilith]

http{colon, backslash, backslash}mypage.direct.ca/j/jliving/landmine.htm
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Isn't a backslash "\" and a regular slash "/" ?

Ok, I should comment on the OP itself - dowsing? really?
The linked article says, among other things, "Dowsing is illustrated in cave drawings estimated to be 8,000 years old. Books on dowsing were among the first to be printed in the 16th. century, and dowsing has flourished since as a means of finding water supplies, locating buried treasure, and exploring for minerals; it has also been used to find murderers and their loot !" Just because a technique is thousands of years old does not mean that it works.

The author has "more than 40 years experience" - well, perhaps it kept him out of trouble, anyway.

And I like this part "Nobody has proved that there is a God; and nobody has proved that there is not a God. If you do not believe in a God or Guardian Angels, you have nothing to lose in imagining that there is a God and that you have a Guardian Angel. Play it safe !"

The article covers it all.

What are we supposed to find interesting here? I saw it as just another of many such articles on the web.

[wahrheit]

But those two links are identical.

I get an error message when I click Loss Leader's link. There's some HTML code at the end of it which causes a 404 with my browser.

[bschmiduk]

"What are we supposed to find interesting here? I saw it as just another of many such articles on the web."

Lilith - Although JR seems to have beat me to it by a few years, I was amused at the notion of using dowsing to discover landmines. It seemed to be a self-limiting proposition. I thought maybe somebody here would find it amusing as well (before I found out JR beat me to the punch).

[Lilith]

"What are we supposed to find interesting here? I saw it as just another of many such articles on the web."

Lilith - Although JR seems to have beat me to it by a few years, I was amused at the notion of using dowsing to discover landmines. It seemed to be a self-limiting proposition. I thought maybe somebody here would find it amusing as well (before I found out JR beat me to the punch).

Ah! Yes - quite amusing!

[Arkayik]

"What are we supposed to find interesting here? I saw it as just another of many such articles on the web."

Lilith - Although JR seems to have beat me to it by a few years, I was amused at the notion of using dowsing to discover landmines. It seemed to be a self-limiting proposition. I thought maybe somebody here would find it amusing as well (before I found out JR beat me to the punch).

Self-limiting indeed! It seems frighteningly hilarious...

One would think that natural selection would weed out the dowsing-mine-hunters... Hopefully before they had time to pass along thier genes.

Cheers.

[rjh01]

Actually land mines do not kill many people. They are designed that way. What they do is injure you so that your legs need to be removed. Very costly to the society.

[Crundy]

It is always safer to use mechanized mine destroyers, and these should be used whenever possible
No sh*t