Christmas is Coming
Funny old thing. I was about to post the following when Sean showed his face in the public forum. I'll post it as is but would recommend that anyone interested should pay the forum a visit if they've not already caught his comments.
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Hope continues to rise amidst the confusion of Steorn's unusual approach to launching their technology to the world. Without knowing the full story of their journey, emotion and logic become mismatched dancing partners, tripping feet and tuneless jerks stumbling from one half-assed conclusion to another. I will continue to guard against my own predilection to believe the characters involved in this play and from the sense that they owe me something for a stance they've neither sought nor encouraged. If it's all an illusion then we'll know soon enough and if not – well, what they're doing is hard. There's no rule book and no-one will care about the miss-steps along the way any more than Sean cares what people think of him on a personal level. All that matters is results. Nothing more.
With that in mind, I turn to thinking about what I can say within the bounds of the NDA that others might find useful or enlightening. One thing that comes to mind is the type of place that the SKDB has become. Top of the list is that it is a highly constructive environment – in more ways than one. The range of skills among its members is wide – from technical infants and wishful dreamers to hard-edged engineers and theorists and from the number-blind to the well-equipped visionary. A core of doers do and their supporters help make things happen. Real stuff. Not just the repetitive gripe and stab that often defines the posts outside. I am genuinely impressed by the community there and have no doubt that should Orbo prove its worth, its utility will be amplified and spread by the fabulous resource that Steorn continues to build behind the wire.
Soon enough, according to the public post, is this year. Merry Christmas?
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Hope continues to rise amidst the confusion of Steorn's unusual approach to launching their technology to the world. Without knowing the full story of their journey, emotion and logic become mismatched dancing partners, tripping feet and tuneless jerks stumbling from one half-assed conclusion to another. I will continue to guard against my own predilection to believe the characters involved in this play and from the sense that they owe me something for a stance they've neither sought nor encouraged. If it's all an illusion then we'll know soon enough and if not – well, what they're doing is hard. There's no rule book and no-one will care about the miss-steps along the way any more than Sean cares what people think of him on a personal level. All that matters is results. Nothing more.
With that in mind, I turn to thinking about what I can say within the bounds of the NDA that others might find useful or enlightening. One thing that comes to mind is the type of place that the SKDB has become. Top of the list is that it is a highly constructive environment – in more ways than one. The range of skills among its members is wide – from technical infants and wishful dreamers to hard-edged engineers and theorists and from the number-blind to the well-equipped visionary. A core of doers do and their supporters help make things happen. Real stuff. Not just the repetitive gripe and stab that often defines the posts outside. I am genuinely impressed by the community there and have no doubt that should Orbo prove its worth, its utility will be amplified and spread by the fabulous resource that Steorn continues to build behind the wire.
Soon enough, according to the public post, is this year. Merry Christmas?
posted by Paul Story at
01:31
6 Comments:
Paul, we have seen a few hopeful comments on the Steorn forum, one of them from ClanZer, somebody I have always thought of as the last person to go overboard with something like this.
You are also hopeful. I know you can't be specific, but is your hopefulness based on seeing more than just flash presentations?
Paul, the people who Steorn provided their best case to and who had the necessary expertise to evaluate Steorn with proper consideration and deliberation were Steorn's jury. They all concluded that Steorn couldn't demonstrate the energy generation they claim. The jury's conclusive findings leave Steorn as: fools, liars, or both. There will be no free energy generator from Steorn for Christmas. It will not come this year. It will not come any year.
Your latest post attacking skeptics and making excuses and apologies for Steorn does not reflect well on you. It gives the appearance that you are either unable to process facts rationally, or that your purpose is to promote Steorn's disproven claims. If you continue to ravage your own reputation you won't be left with much of any value. Please don't keep doing this to yourself.
Hi Guys,
These comments sort of complement each other in the sense that they highlight the fact that, in my effort to keep within the NDA, I am forced to be vague. It's tough to get the tone right in those circumstances. Please understand that I have not jumped the fence. I am talking about the community behind the wire and how that community is quite fabulous in many ways. When I praise that resource, that is all I'm doing. In particular, it is the people there that impress me.
Thanks, too, anon for your concern about my reputation. That was trashed a long time ago when I was on the believers side. Anyone who has followed this blog from the beginning will know that I call it how I see it. I am no shill. If it makes me look a fool then so be it. I am not the teflon character that Sean seems to be, but neither do I worry about spinning my words to make myself look one thing or another. I write fiction. My reputation as a scientist is non-existent because I am not one.
I do watch my own barometer swing one way and then another and see in that tendency something interesting (and perhaps fundamental) about human nature. This is one of the reasons I smack myself down when I get too excited about something surrounding the Steorn mystery.
And the Christmas comment? The end - one way or the other - may be in sight. No matter where you stand, that has to be cause for celebration.
I will think about this a little and write another post to clarify my stance.
Paul, there is no mystery. The jury was unequivocal: Steorn tried but could not demonstrate what they say they have.
It is your reputation. If you don't value it, there isn't anyone else who will.
Steorn tried but could not demonstrate what they say they have"
I believe actually the jury found that they "did not" not that they "could not." There's a small, but important, difference there.
To the OP: It is actually very comforting to know that, one way or the other, this drama will reach a conclusion. I've always withheld judgment on this whole mess until I can get hold of a device, a paper, or a conviction (Sean's). As any other reaction finds roots in either listening to hearsay and speculation or subscribing to the dogma of physics in a more literal fashion than is intended.
Propaganda, it is possible that Steorn failed by choice instead of inability as physics predicts. That possibility is as remote as the likelihood that their claim to Fire 2.0 was ever true.
Steorn might be drama for the poor saps who funded them. Steorn remain hardly known beyond a few very obscure message boards where they are mostly snickered at.
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