On Thu, 5 May 2005, John Steck wrote: > doubt and replace it with hope. Worse yet, he managed to fleece a few of us > too (not me so I must temper my indignation).
Nah, I don't think he's into financial cons. I'm (almost entirely) convinced that he thinks SMOT could eventually work... so he takes the expedient of telling us that SMOT has already succeeded. But if true, this is enormous news, and we should all stop what we're doing and look at his videos and photos, question his eyewitnesses on the phone, ask for new videos of particular details of the machine in operation, even perhaps call in the press, pay for him to get a better camera and software, hire a local vortex staff member as an eyewitness and alternate opinion besides Greg, install web-connected instrumentation to observe the amazing event, etc. None of this can happen because there isn't even a single photo of the successful device, much less a video, much less a second person of whom we can ask questions. That's just so incredibly weird, it's unbelievable. Many other aspects are just as weird and inexplicable. But everything is completely explained by one simple method: if we imagine that Greg lied when he claimed success, then it all makes perfect sense, and all of his future actions are totally predictable. A person who is not after money can still be a con artist. If they create a web of lies, yet act friendly while lying right to your face... then they're winning your confidence and using it to manipulate you. There's no monetary ripoff, yet that's the very definition of "confidence trickster" or "con game." If the SMOT can never work, then it's a very slimy ploy which wastes the time of hundreds of people and only because they all were lied to. > I say good riddance. Maybe Newman will let him post to his list... add a > couple of batteries to SMOT and he'll fit right in over there... 8^) The worst part is that it's difficult to prove the lies. What, should someone show up on his ex-wife's doorstep and ask for her side? (Maybe he doesn't even have an ex-wife, maybe Greg Watson has always been a very bored sixteen year old girl in Hong Kong with a nasty sense of humor and some skill at fabricating online personas.) (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
