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Have you ever watched "the Prestige"? If you knew how to find gold, do you think you'd give it away? Or would you create a smoke & mirrors method to pass on knowledge on how to do it with ritual like has been done with Every Other form of guild based knowledge?
I'm learning about what kind of plants and soil bacteria like gold soil.https://t.co/yFIwrhx2SP
How to smell water?https://t.co/H1O25ANYyB
@remixerator Been researching well digging in agriculture, and even professionally done stuff have about as much luck as a dowser sometimes. Being able to make drilling cheaper would help with the discovery aspect. The biggest worry IMHO is avoiding sink holes https://t.co/v0mCcZZI3s
Becoming a Witcher, literally.https://t.co/II1CLgWfbI
It's all greek to me.https://t.co/YGusjMZRi0
"And it seems that time is telling us to be all that we canTo help lift up the fallen, we must sow the seeds of goodnessThe torch is passed among us now to light the way of man" 🎶https://t.co/z2uWedka9Lhttps://t.co/hNcoQJFNEC
I know someone who's family line were dowsers. In talking to them, I may have reverse engineered what kind of sensory data would help someone sense underground water. I am learning to smell soil bacteria+fungus of phreatophytes https://t.co/dgokRHFmQehttps://t.co/NnJbJhgQ0k
I have to prove it. I will hold gold in my hands.I have to prove it. I will make stones crumble like sand.https://t.co/3zaslPt7Ja
Since I somehow managed to turn on my memory for faces in movies, i realized that I had been confusing "The Prestige" with "The Illusionist"I remembered that Teller's Shadow, (a variation orange fruit trick) was in that one. https://t.co/adVrNntBbX
"no one knows how it's done, and no one will figure it out"https://t.co/dQ576MoIrY
Automata? Hmm. If "no one will figure it out" it can't be that simple.https://t.co/9ZKYGVvF8a
That'll be my first trick. Showing I can stand in Teller's shadow.Inductive proximity detectors will be involved.I will give away a trick, but not the whole trick.So as not to be insulting https://t.co/kHExxPc71c
I want him to teach me greek.I want to learn a funny looking bird.https://t.co/ubLiEdw3CC
"This tradition continued in Alexandria with inventors such as the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria (sometimes known as Heron), whose writings on hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics described siphons, a fire engine, a water organ, the aeolipile, and a programmable cart."
"So every time you do a trick that's successful, you have taught everybody in the audience that some way that they ascertain truth is incorrect." https://t.co/uEaptJEngC
Wanna see a magic trick?https://t.co/IlWs3d8qUq
A fun trick."Of course, this scenario still required RF to have been a damned good theoretical physicist."https://t.co/FGlw3teOID
Surround myself with magicians smarter than me.https://t.co/GtdOOB6cs4
And they tell me how they think the trick is done.https://t.co/liEoJ1M03X
I (was) creating an amalgam of the best traits of all the cool people I meet on here and then pretend this figment of my imagination is my mimetic rival. Then I think of ways of becoming better than this entity. More kind, more caring, more thoughtful, more creative.
I am nothing without my network.So I keep you in my head. https://t.co/1JHmWAyhEX
And feed you ideas.https://t.co/RlmFcw4WvX
"How I do the trick is simple: I assume your mind is a machine acting on inputs. Levers that I can pull to move your brain like a puppet. Strings that I can pluck to resonate an idea. I use poetic words to harmonize with the way your strings are tuned."https://t.co/U2VX0ZSwh2
Did you know James Randi Called Richard Feynman "dick"?(audio loud)https://t.co/zQC78j2vbB
I figured out how to respec.https://t.co/2T3hlopev2
I think part of Feynman's particular genius was his awareness of how his own mind works compared to others. Perhaps a result of his curiosity directing his thinking inward. He found that people read differently. (and can perhaps respec?)https://t.co/Qf3PVEMTgU
"But magic’s not easy to pick apart with machines, because it’s not really about the mechanics of your senses. Magic’s about understanding—and then manipulating—how viewers digest the sensory information." https://t.co/JlnlwGSkm6https://t.co/mjj1SOlixi
Someone figured out the Rose's Shadow.I also learned teller, while teaching Latin was "dissatisfied with the prescribed textbook, he wrote his own."https://t.co/y9jEbay9o5
To hold gold in my hands.https://t.co/ru5CSooyW9
Mushroom hunting for gold and silver.https://t.co/c5RYdeOK2b
Mammon.https://t.co/dWLJQqvfbK
Healing holy mushrooms, lmao.https://t.co/JZUC5r0uSu
From death, comes life.From decaying fungus, comes life bringing chemistry.https://t.co/hWqOp1SqAq
What do you think is real that others do not?The city of gold. https://t.co/4x3TTxSbhZ
Technically speaking this is wrong. Most early gold was actually electrum (A silver/gold fusion). Tho there are some indications Ancient Egyptians may've had a glass smelting process (to separate out gold) that rivaled our modern methods way earlier than we give them credit for. https://t.co/BSngw4D4LS https://t.co/Ser0AQ7KhA
Imhotephttps://t.co/rIlP2qCKBl
Eating toxic metals and pooping out elementary gold?https://t.co/TAGnFm9MT9
I've had stranger ideas about toxic metals that proved to be true.https://t.co/cOUlN1GVxC
GET REKT. "New research by a team at Pennsylvania State University suggests that microbes in the human gut could be harnessed to block absorption of toxic metals like mercury and help the body absorb useful nutritional ones"https://t.co/sAuq7aPrM4https://t.co/d1VnAdUM94