Whatever happened to the Angel Light?

TheBoyPaj · 11th May 2006, 01:55 AM

Remember this amazing machine which was supposed to see through walls? What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year.

Did it turn out to be bogus? (Surely not).
Was it eaten by a grizzly bear?

Can anyone please illuminate me?

CaveDave · 11th May 2006, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj

Can anyone please illuminate me?

And, IMHO, therin lies the rub: If this beam can penetrate otherwise opaque matter as if it weren't there, then what about it changes to cause it to suddenly illuminate and be reflected from the target, change back again to pass back through the intervening opaque barrier, then change yet again so as to affect the retina of the observer?

Must be the work of Angels.

At this time, without further reasoning or evidence, I'd call it BS.

Cheers,
Dave

richardm · 11th May 2006, 04:31 AM

Quote:

So, yeah, I had this amazing new see-through-walls invention that came to me in a dream and it just used three fluorescent tubes like from my kitchen and the microwave oven as well and of course a bunch of lasers and stuff and it really worked and I could see through walls and kill goldfish and make planes crash and MIT were like "Whoa! Nobel Prize, dude!" and it was just really, really Awesome but it made my hand go a bit tingly so I thought I'd just take it apart and forget about it until some French guy saw it on TV and offered me like a billion dollars and

I for one am utterly convinced.

Ladewig · 11th May 2006, 06:06 AM

Quote:

Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on his wife's car and even see the salt on it.

"I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could step through the wall," Hurtubise said.

"You could be fooled into believing that you could actually walk through the wall and go touch the car."

Three or four times?! Has anyone here walked into the same glass door three or four times before becoming convinced that they could not walk through it?

Meffy · 11th May 2006, 06:39 AM

Silly Ladewig. EVERYONE knows that super geniuses are absent-minded! O_:-}

I less than three logic · 11th May 2006, 07:35 AM

Well, I don’t know about people repeatedly walking into glass doors, but we’ve had a cardinal trying to fly through our windows for a few months now. It’s even managed to rip a couple holes in some of the screens. Pretty bird though, it’s a brilliant shade of red. Still haven’t figured out the bird’s obsession with trying to get into the house though, perhaps it is suicidal since we have seven cats.

joe87 · 11th May 2006, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by I less than three logic

Well, I don’t know about people repeatedly walking into glass doors, but we’ve had a cardinal trying to fly through our windows for a few months now. It’s even managed to rip a couple holes in some of the screens. Pretty bird though, it’s a brilliant shade of red. Still haven’t figured out the bird’s obsession with trying to get into the house though, perhaps it is suicidal since we have seven cats.

Its not trying to get into the house. It is attacking its reflection in the glass. Cardinals are quite territorial, especially in the spring. To stop cardinals at our house, we tape newspaper on the inside of certain windows to kill the reflection.

Meffy · 11th May 2006, 08:28 AM

Odd you should mention this. Just two minutes ago a catbird (I think; mockingbird sized but charcoal gray with a black "hat") attacked a window just behind me.

Beady · 11th May 2006, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Meffy

Odd you should mention this. Just two minutes ago a catbird (I think; mockingbird sized but charcoal gray with a black "hat") attacked a window just behind me.

Coincidence? I think not!

Meffy · 11th May 2006, 08:44 AM

*nodnod* *shifty eyes* Conspiracy.

I less than three logic · 11th May 2006, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by joe87

Its not trying to get into the house. It is attacking its reflection in the glass. Cardinals are quite territorial, especially in the spring. To stop cardinals at our house, we tape newspaper on the inside of certain windows to kill the reflection.

Interesting, we moved into the area about 2 years ago and this is the first run in with a cardinal like this. Being relatively new to this area, I’m unfamiliar with some of these habits I guess, but I do enjoy learning about them. Thanks for the tip, perhaps it will save some of the screens. Although, it is fun to watch this bird drive the cats crazy.

joe87 · 11th May 2006, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj

Remember this amazing machine which was supposed to see through walls? What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year.

Did it turn out to be bogus? (Surely not).
Was it eaten by a grizzly bear?

Can anyone please illuminate me?

The Angel Light has evolved into the God Light, which can cure cancer! Check out these refs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise
http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=8267
http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=8271

This guy Hurtubise sounds like a wacko nutjob, but you never know, maybe he has stumbled onto the next breakthrough in physics (not likely).

Neutiquam Erro · 11th May 2006, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by I less than three logic

Interesting, we moved into the area about 2 years ago and this is the first run in with a cardinal like this. Being relatively new to this area, I’m unfamiliar with some of these habits I guess, but I do enjoy learning about them. Thanks for the tip, perhaps it will save some of the screens. Although, it is fun to watch this bird drive the cats crazy.

I've seen Cardinals do this for days. They will literally beat themselves to death, a little at a time. Try to head it off before all your windows are soiled with filth, feathers, and blood.

I less than three logic · 11th May 2006, 09:10 AM

I’m not sure if this one is quite that bad, seems to be attacking the windows with its feet and not its head. I’ll put up something tonight once I get home to try to head it off.

Meffy · 11th May 2006, 09:17 AM

From the sound of it, that's what the catbird (I looked it up in Peterson's; that's what it was) did too. There was a clatter, not a thud. The window has shades inside, no chance of a bird trying to fly through it.

Ziggurat · 11th May 2006, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj

What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year.

Well, obviously, someone put two of the devices pointing at each other, and now nobody can find them. They're terribly embarased about the whole thing, and don't really want to talk about it.

Meffy · 11th May 2006, 09:47 AM

The biggest risk with an Angel Light would be dropping it. How many Fallen Angel Lights would it take to change their own light bulbs... with or without our approval? =@.@=

NeilC · 11th May 2006, 09:54 AM

Lots of photos of a funny machine. Just one showing it actually working would have been useful.

Psiload · 11th May 2006, 10:04 AM

As we speak Dr. Hurtubise is in his secret lair hidden in a hollowed out volcan-o surrounded by liquid hot mag-ma. He's got The Angel Light pointed at Washington D.C., which he will obliterate if he's not promptly paid the sum of one million dollars.

Mwahaha. Mwahahaha.

richardm · 11th May 2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Splossy

Lots of photos of a funny machine. Just one showing it actually working would have been useful.

The photo was taken from the other side of a solid brick wall, you unbeliever

Blondin · 11th May 2006, 10:07 AM

Troy has been unusually subdued for a while now. It's not like him to be out of the limelight for more than 6 months. He was getting a lot of attention from Daily Planet for a while but I think the novelty has worn off and even they aren't silly enough to do a story on his "God Light".

Troy is an attention whore and if he can't get media attention for his "amazing" inventions then he starts making claims about being tailed by Al Qaeda spies or something. I think the Bay Today webnews reporter Phil Novak is one of the few who still reports any of Troy's nonsense.

It's sad, really.

Ripley Twenty-Nine · 11th May 2006, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj

Was it eaten by a grizzly bear?

I'm afraid it was much more insidious than that.

It was, in fact, eaten by a Grolar Bear.

Ziggurat · 11th May 2006, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine

It was, in fact, eaten by a Grolar Bear.

How do you know it wasn't a Pozzly Bear?

ChristineR · 11th May 2006, 10:36 AM

Well, I guess it's easier to convince people that their breast cysts are shrinking that it is to convince people you can set through walls.

11th May 2006, 01:55 AM	#1
TheBoyPaj Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,661	Whatever happened to the Angel Light? Remember this amazing machine which was supposed to see through walls? What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year. Did it turn out to be bogus? (Surely not). Was it eaten by a grizzly bear? Can anyone please illuminate me?
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11th May 2006, 03:27 AM	#2
CaveDave Semicentenarian Troglodyte Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Buddy Holly's home, Surrounded by tumbleweeds, duststorms, and tornados. Posts: 1,364	Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj Can anyone please illuminate me? And, IMHO, therin lies the rub: If this beam can penetrate otherwise opaque matter as if it weren't there, then what about it changes to cause it to suddenly illuminate and be reflected from the target, change back again to pass back through the intervening opaque barrier, then change yet again so as to affect the retina of the observer? Must be the work of Angels. At this time, without further reasoning or evidence, I'd call it BS. Cheers, Dave
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11th May 2006, 04:31 AM	#3
richardm Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,477	Quote: So, yeah, I had this amazing new see-through-walls invention that came to me in a dream and it just used three fluorescent tubes like from my kitchen and the microwave oven as well and of course a bunch of lasers and stuff and it really worked and I could see through walls and kill goldfish and make planes crash and MIT were like "Whoa! Nobel Prize, dude!" and it was just really, really Awesome but it made my hand go a bit tingly so I thought I'd just take it apart and forget about it until some French guy saw it on TV and offered me like a billion dollars and I for one am utterly convinced.
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11th May 2006, 07:35 AM	#6
I less than three logic Graduate Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: St Cloud, MN, USA Posts: 1,461	Well, I don’t know about people repeatedly walking into glass doors, but we’ve had a cardinal trying to fly through our windows for a few months now. It’s even managed to rip a couple holes in some of the screens. Pretty bird though, it’s a brilliant shade of red. Still haven’t figured out the bird’s obsession with trying to get into the house though, perhaps it is suicidal since we have seven cats.
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11th May 2006, 08:24 AM	#7
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89	Originally Posted by I less than three logic Well, I don’t know about people repeatedly walking into glass doors, but we’ve had a cardinal trying to fly through our windows for a few months now. It’s even managed to rip a couple holes in some of the screens. Pretty bird though, it’s a brilliant shade of red. Still haven’t figured out the bird’s obsession with trying to get into the house though, perhaps it is suicidal since we have seven cats. Its not trying to get into the house. It is attacking its reflection in the glass. Cardinals are quite territorial, especially in the spring. To stop cardinals at our house, we tape newspaper on the inside of certain windows to kill the reflection.
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89

11th May 2006, 06:06 AM	#4
Ladewig Philosopher Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Gulf Coast Posts: 8,560	Quote: Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on his wife's car and even see the salt on it. "I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could step through the wall," Hurtubise said. "You could be fooled into believing that you could actually walk through the wall and go touch the car." Three or four times?! Has anyone here walked into the same glass door three or four times before becoming convinced that they could not walk through it?

11th May 2006, 06:39 AM	#5
Meffy Anthropomorphic Skunk Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan Posts: 4,232	Silly Ladewig. EVERYONE knows that super geniuses are absent-minded! O_:-}

11th May 2006, 08:28 AM	#8
Meffy Anthropomorphic Skunk Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan Posts: 4,232	Odd you should mention this. Just two minutes ago a catbird (I think; mockingbird sized but charcoal gray with a black "hat") attacked a window just behind me.

11th May 2006, 08:31 AM	#9
Beady Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: 44:57:19N, 73:16:18W Posts: 4,848	Originally Posted by Meffy Odd you should mention this. Just two minutes ago a catbird (I think; mockingbird sized but charcoal gray with a black "hat") attacked a window just behind me. Coincidence? I think not!
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11th May 2006, 08:44 AM	#10
Meffy Anthropomorphic Skunk Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan Posts: 4,232	nodnod shifty eyes Conspiracy.

11th May 2006, 08:47 AM	#11
I less than three logic Graduate Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: St Cloud, MN, USA Posts: 1,461	Originally Posted by joe87 Its not trying to get into the house. It is attacking its reflection in the glass. Cardinals are quite territorial, especially in the spring. To stop cardinals at our house, we tape newspaper on the inside of certain windows to kill the reflection. Interesting, we moved into the area about 2 years ago and this is the first run in with a cardinal like this. Being relatively new to this area, I’m unfamiliar with some of these habits I guess, but I do enjoy learning about them. Thanks for the tip, perhaps it will save some of the screens. Although, it is fun to watch this bird drive the cats crazy.
	__________________ “There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.” - Carl Sagan “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball ninety million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” – Douglas Adams

11th May 2006, 09:01 AM	#12
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89	Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj Remember this amazing machine which was supposed to see through walls? What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year. Did it turn out to be bogus? (Surely not). Was it eaten by a grizzly bear? Can anyone please illuminate me? The Angel Light has evolved into the God Light, which can cure cancer! Check out these refs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=8267 http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=8271 This guy Hurtubise sounds like a wacko nutjob, but you never know, maybe he has stumbled onto the next breakthrough in physics (not likely).
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89

11th May 2006, 09:02 AM	#13
Neutiquam Erro mennil-toss flykune Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 234	Originally Posted by I less than three logic Interesting, we moved into the area about 2 years ago and this is the first run in with a cardinal like this. Being relatively new to this area, I’m unfamiliar with some of these habits I guess, but I do enjoy learning about them. Thanks for the tip, perhaps it will save some of the screens. Although, it is fun to watch this bird drive the cats crazy. I've seen Cardinals do this for days. They will literally beat themselves to death, a little at a time. Try to head it off before all your windows are soiled with filth, feathers, and blood.
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11th May 2006, 09:10 AM	#14
I less than three logic Graduate Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: St Cloud, MN, USA Posts: 1,461	I’m not sure if this one is quite that bad, seems to be attacking the windows with its feet and not its head. I’ll put up something tonight once I get home to try to head it off.
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11th May 2006, 09:17 AM	#15
Meffy Anthropomorphic Skunk Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan Posts: 4,232	From the sound of it, that's what the catbird (I looked it up in Peterson's; that's what it was) did too. There was a clatter, not a thud. The window has shades inside, no chance of a bird trying to fly through it.

11th May 2006, 09:39 AM	#16
Ziggurat Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 13,377	Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj What became of that? I can't find any mention of it since last year. Well, obviously, someone put two of the devices pointing at each other, and now nobody can find them. They're terribly embarased about the whole thing, and don't really want to talk about it.
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11th May 2006, 09:47 AM	#17
Meffy Anthropomorphic Skunk Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan Posts: 4,232	The biggest risk with an Angel Light would be dropping it. How many Fallen Angel Lights would it take to change their own light bulbs... with or without our approval? =@.@=

11th May 2006, 09:54 AM	#18
NeilC Graduate Poster Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,085	Lots of photos of a funny machine. Just one showing it actually working would have been useful.

11th May 2006, 10:04 AM	#19
Psiload Graduate Poster Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,845	As we speak Dr. Hurtubise is in his secret lair hidden in a hollowed out volcan-o surrounded by liquid hot mag-ma. He's got The Angel Light pointed at Washington D.C., which he will obliterate if he's not promptly paid the sum of one million dollars. Mwahaha. Mwahahaha.
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11th May 2006, 10:06 AM	#20
richardm Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,477	Originally Posted by Splossy Lots of photos of a funny machine. Just one showing it actually working would have been useful. The photo was taken from the other side of a solid brick wall, you unbeliever
richardm Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,477	__________________ Rimmer: Look at her! Magnificent woman! Very prim, very proper, almost austere. Some people took her for cold, thought she was aloof. Not a bit of it. She just despised fools. Quite tragic, really, because otherwise I think we'd have got on famously.

11th May 2006, 10:07 AM	#21
Blondin Muse Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Northern Ontario Posts: 909	Troy has been unusually subdued for a while now. It's not like him to be out of the limelight for more than 6 months. He was getting a lot of attention from Daily Planet for a while but I think the novelty has worn off and even they aren't silly enough to do a story on his "God Light". Troy is an attention whore and if he can't get media attention for his "amazing" inventions then he starts making claims about being tailed by Al Qaeda spies or something. I think the Bay Today webnews reporter Phil Novak is one of the few who still reports any of Troy's nonsense. It's sad, really.

11th May 2006, 10:14 AM	#22
Ripley Twenty-Nine Muse Join Date: May 2005 Location: London, Ontario Posts: 863	Originally Posted by TheBoyPaj Was it eaten by a grizzly bear? I'm afraid it was much more insidious than that. It was, in fact, eaten by a Grolar Bear.
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11th May 2006, 10:22 AM	#23
Ziggurat Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 13,377	Originally Posted by Ripley Twenty-Nine It was, in fact, eaten by a Grolar Bear. How do you know it wasn't a Pozzly Bear?
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11th May 2006, 10:36 AM	#24
ChristineR Illuminator Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,071	Well, I guess it's easier to convince people that their breast cysts are shrinking that it is to convince people you can set through walls.
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