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[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Remote viewer Major Ed Dames says look here: >> COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY

FWIW

AFAIK, the scientific and statistical consensus is that remote viewing is worth precisely nothing. That said, isn’t remote viewing supposed to work like … the psychic sees what he’s looking for, then can look around, find landmarks, then give precise directions to it? Narrowing it down to a few hundred square kilometers north of Yosemite because “Steve might have wanted to do some sightseeing over Yosemite National Park on the way back to the Flying M Ranch, so took a detour in that direction” seems more like un-psychic guesswork than remote viewing.

Ed Dames seems as a shadow of his former charlatan self. No more predictions down-to-the-year-and-season predictions of the end of nearly all life on earth, deadly fungus bioweapons launched from comets, or other creative stuff – just a rather lame “we’ll give authorities a more detailed fix of Fossett if they ask”.

Seriously, though, Fossett’s death, which seems more certain as time passes and searches, conventional and Mechanical Turk-based, come up empty, saddens me more than I expected. After years of chortling when his balloons, etc. left him in dire need of rescue at sea, and grumbling about him being more of a guy with too much money than a real pilot at his successes, I realize I really do admire Fossett. Of all the billionaires of whom I’ve heard, his behavior seems closest to how I imagine I’d behave if I were one, striving to set records in vehicles of all sorts.

Assuming he doesn’t turn up alive – which seems increasingly unlikely - the world’s a slightly less colorful place for me without Steve Fossett. I’ll miss him.