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From: jeffma@tekgvs.UUCP (Jeff Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Psychic warfare?
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 16:01:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 16:01:13 1984
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       "In last evening's edition of All Things Considered on NPR it was
  mentioned that the Pentagon is conducting research on the potential 
  influence of psychics on the functioning of computer hardware in military
  weapons. It seems that if the psychics could bend spoons by their supposedly
  supernatural power then the low power devices (CMOS microprocessors ?)
  used in military systems could be easy targets for them. Sounds like an
  interesting twist to an already complex world of military electronics.
  It was also mentioned in the program that the Soviets are believed to be
  far ahead of the U.S. in this area of research.
       Does anyone know more about this area of research and any reported 
  evidence of psychics affecting the function of computer hardware?"

					[partha@ihuxq.UUCP] 

What a bunch of hogwash.  The American taxpayers should be outraged at the 
thought of having their tax dollars spent on such garbage.  The Defense 
Department did, in fact, fund a "psi" project in which some incredibly silly 
experiments were conducted, including the burning of a photograph of a 
Russian missile in order to see whether or not it would cause the missile 
to explode.  Wow!  That must be what they call "Military Intelligence."
And since when have psychics been able to bend spoons by any method other
than NON-PSYCHIC METHODS (i.e. cheating)???  I'm still waiting for a
psychic to bend a spoon "psychically" under controlled conditions (and
that doesn't include the Merv Griffin Show).

Take this sort of stuff with a grain of salt--about the size of a
basketball (as James Randi would say).

					Jeff Mayhew
					teklabs!tekgvs!jeffma