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They're pretty amazing to play with. For example, you can make a small one hop around in your hand by turning over another one relatively far away. Much more dramatic experiences than you get playing around with refrigerator magnets.
The safety warnings there are serious -- depending on the size, these magnets will be pulled toward each other with tens to hundreds of pounds of force, and they don't care what's in the way. Even the medium-sized ones that I got drew blood when they pinched me.
(As with other magnets, the ones that are small enough to be swallowed would also be a severe hazard if a child swallowed them, although most on that page are much too big to swallow. On the other hand, if you let some of the larger disc-shaped ones loose from far enough apart, they'll fly together with enough force to shatter!)
The scariest part was successfully assembling the magnets into the yoke. If we made a mistake, could easily use a finger, or, if they touch, we'd have to scrap everything and buy more to try again because you couldn't pull them apart.
Side note: if you live in Phoenix: take a trip down to Apache reclamation sometime. They have a lot of chemistry gear, old lab equipment etc. It gives me a similar feeling to wander around there.
Bummer they’re sold out of tshirts. Might have to bootleg my own!
I suppose rents and eBay put an end to that.
My assessment is this: if the probability that he's telling the truth is fat tailed enough (say roughly above 5%), then that's enough to justify being extremely interested in what he has to say. But the #1 thing that makes me doubt his claims meet this threshold is that he claims the craft he worked on violated the known laws of thermodynamics, which sends this probability to a mere epsilon over 0%.
(Since how often are known laws of physics "changed", as opposed to being merely "extended")?
On the other hand we've had something like 5 theories of gravity since the dawn of man? We can easily have another one sometime...
If (big if) there were aliens on nearby star systems, it's fairly likely they'd follow something similar to the Star Trek 'Prime Directive', which "prohibits Starfleet personnel and spacecraft from interfering in the normal development of any society..." [1]
If that were the case, their actions would match fairly closely the supposed alien sightings that have been reported over the years. To me, that possibility is enough to consider the general nature of his claims not outside the realm of what our species' encounters with aliens would look like. Tech that's a little to far beyond ours for us to analyze intelligently, encounters between our governments and their emmissaries, occasional slip-ups and public sightings, etc.
Yes, I'm poking fun, but only a bit - any general exegesis of modern alien visitation on Earth, that attempts to incorporate claims such as Lazar's, really does need to also have a position on the butt stuff. So where do you stand on The Alien Butt Stuff?
Or, we could construct an alternate theory based on the Alien movie and facehuggers. Butthuggers?
(Don't get me started on the Alien aliens. I mean, their reproductive cycle obviously takes strong inspiration from that of spider wasps, but parasitoidism only works reliably when the supply of hosts is unconstrained. Given the creatures' evident intelligence and their capacity for rapid and apparently directed adaptation via horizontal gene transfer from their hosts, and given also the extensive variety of things that humans get horny about, you'd really expect to see a modus vivendi develop pretty quick, you know?)
I vouched yours, of course, but I'm still insulted. I mean, what am I to the HN horny cops? Chopped liver?
Re: a modus viviendi, though - I'd rather not see Earth become a sex tourism location for the local star systems. After a few generations of selective breeding, we'd all look like Kim Kardashian.
That's what I'd hope, at least. But you're still right that there's a real risk here. Maybe that explains the weirdly targeted flagkill - not that I don't probably know one or two people who'd be here for that in theory, but from where I sit, it is a frightful prospect.
He clearly lied about having degrees from MIT and Caltech and people who are known to have made such a major lie are surely much more likely to be lying about other things.
As for his UFO claims, it's not just that they fly in the face of all accepted theories of physics but that the way he describes them has no connection to our current understanding of physics. In other words to anyone with a real physics background they sound like absolute nonsense. This is why physicists like Stanton Friedman and Eric Davis, though themselves believers in the reality of the UFO phenomenon, were/are convinced he is lying.
I know some people who watched that video and concluded that he seems genuine, but for me it gave me a strong impression, a gut instinct, that he's been lying to himself for years.
Could also be a psychosis. I had a brilliant friend in college that had a psychosis.
He kept looking normal but the stories he told were completely detached from reality. Over night he had several conspiracy like theories, contact with famous business CEO's, conversations with politicians, and was asked to run secret projects. When I saw Bob at Joe Rogan I immediately had to think of that friend back in the day.
Site still looks very much the same as it did other than a mobile friendly version available. Great source for various odds and ends. Especially for home science projects.