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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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Subject: Re: psychic ability, and throwing down the gauntlet
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Date: Sat, 17-May-86 00:25:24 EDT
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>Sunny

>Regarding proof, I will waste these words:  "Stanford" has done
>research on psychic phenomena, specifically "remote viewing".  They put
>a psychic whose name was Pat and whose otherwise occupation was
>policeman, into a faraday shielded room, with an observer or two, while
>other "scientists" working on the experiment got into their car and
>randomly drove around the San Francisco Bay Area.  At a prearranged
>time, Pat would describe where the roving experimenters were, usually
>not by saying:" They're in Milpitas" (NOBODY would go to milpitas..

    Just what do you mean by that?

    I've been planning to spend my vacation in Milpitas for several
    years now. I hear the salt evaporators are perfectly marvelous 
    under the midsummer sun.

-michael

    The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual

-Peter Grimes