Comments on: Iraqi Army Using… Dowsing Rods?!

By: Lonjho

Lonjho — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:46:43 +0000

Well, nos just in Iraq are using this nonsense. In Mexico, the Army, Navy a couple of police agencies and Pemex (mexican oil agency) are using the “GT200 Remote Substance Detection”. This device, as you can image, is just another dowsing rod.

You can read about this on my blog here, http://tinyurl.com/ykarkly (in spanish).

Regards.

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:12:31 +0000

In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the worlBOOM!

I guess he does now.

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:08:09 +0000

We’re trying to rebuild a country for these superstitious fruitcakes? What the hell for? We gotta get outa there. Back to the good ol’ USA where folks are sensible and eat their biscuit gods, fight over pulling the plug on grandma, and perform exorcisms for Vice Presidential candidates.

By: Edmond

Edmond — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:08:09 +0000

Yo, pirate Jeff! I’d be in for that! I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the comments!

By: Daniel Howard

Daniel Howard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:47:19 +0000

Two words: Natural Selection

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:04:46 +0000

So… who wants to start a dowsing rod business where we undercut the competitors and sell them for only $15,000 each? We can guarantee that ours work just as well as the ones selling for $60,000 each. We could buy broom sticks, and maybe add some Arabic lettering and a crescent or two on them or something.

By: Valdyr

Valdyr — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:20 +0000

In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world.

Said with such straight-faced goofy arrogance that I’m hoping this is a mistranslation.

By: Judith Bandsma

Judith Bandsma — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:42:43 +0000

@Sue; they’re probably buying them from Halliburton.

That said, my grandfather raised 2 1/2 families by drilling water wells that he located with a forked peach limb. The misses he had could be counted on one hand in over 60 years…the last location he did at age 90, leaning on his walker.

Now, before you think that I attribute any woo to this, I don’t. I truly believe that my grandfather recognized the lay of the land in the area he worked and had an innate recognition of the formations that would indicate the presence of water. I don’t believe he’d have been able to find anything if he’d been taken to an area unfamiliar to him and asked to do the same thing. Neither of his children and none of his grand-, great-grand or great-great-grandchildren have ever been able to duplicate this and I truly believe that it is because we never had the opportunity to learn the land as he did.

By: curran

curran — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:46:11 +0000

It amazes me how otherwise smart people can be so blindingly stupid. Reminds me of guy on local tv who talks to his crystal and pendulums. Hopefully it doesn’t take a large bodycount before they realize they’re a bunch of suckers.

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:40:37 +0000

I’ve now read the article and see it includes a bar code reader. Those are quite expensive. Although the bent wire would work just as well.