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Re: Psychic showdown - challenge to Herc

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From: |-|ercules
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:51
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"Sylvia Else" <sylvia@not.here.invalid> wrote > 
> ----
> 1 Is there intelligent life anywhere in the Galaxy other than Earth?
> Look again
> 
> 2 Does dark matter really exist?
> that must have been an illusion
> 
> 3 Was there really a lost city called Atlantis?
> Not my house - a house of merchandise
> (house = place to live = city of treasure)
> 
> 4 Does Qantum phase entanglement represent something real?
> Tourist who lost his way.
> (Is he a real citizen??)
> 
> 5 Is there a binary, or greater, neutron star pair near enough to render
> humans extinct when they merge as a result of radiating gravity waves?
> Hermanas, La Cinta, La Ibense, Los Parientes, El Bar Angeles
> (to name a few)
> 
> 6 Will a single theory-of-everything ever prevail?
> "I'm sorry" he said.
> ---
> 
> "Look again" could equally apply to Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5. Ok, not Q6.

No, it's most definitely a hit with Q1, looking for aliens.



> 
> "That must have been an illusion" could apply to Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4.

No, best hit is obviously DARK MATTER,
it matches the grammar of Quantum Entanglement but since it's proven
to exist it doesn't match the context.


> 
> "Not my house - a house or merchandise" I wouldn't have picked any. I 
> haven't thought of Atlantis as being a city of treasures. Maybe that 
> just means my knowledge of the legend of Atlantis is lacking, but if so 
> that's the situation in which I would have been working.

Anybody could spot HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE as a match for
CITY OF ATLANTIS.

Absolutely trivial.




> 
> "Tourist who lost his way". I'd say Q1 only. Specifically not Q4 - your 
> link between tourist and citizen is not a link I would be inclined to 
> make, not even after seeing it.
> 
> "Hermanas, ..." I would have no clue about.
> 
> "I'm sorry" - could be a negative answer to any question that contained 
> a suggestion that the questioner is hoping for a an affirmative answer, 
> or an affirmative answer where the questioner is likely hoping for a 
> negative answer (as in my Q5).
> 


You had no inside info on "I'm sorry" RE: me being the author,
but with only a few options left the last 3 are easy too.

That was out of SIX options and quite easy to score well.

With TWO options - me against a control selective a true random phrase
it is TRIVIAL TO PROVE PSYCHIC CHANNELING.

I've heard your "I DUNNO" copout again and again, leave it.

Herc
 
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