RE: What testing do science based facts get through to be validated?
November 14, 2019 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2019 at 5:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that people would remember this, if they ever knew it..but there was a company based in Dublin called Steorn, formed in '01 for e-commerce..more prosaically, they were an internet credit card company..... that by '06 was marketing a perpetual motion machine called Orbo. Magnets and rotors, magnets and rotors.
They even put it on display at Kinetica in London, in '07, it failed. You could pay a fee to see the specs. They continued to collect investments, however, and by 2009 it came out in the wash that the panel of "experts" they hired to vet the tech really did exist....which people had strongly doubted beforehand...but that they had determined that the tech absolutely and conclusively did not work. Steorn had fooled themselves. This didn't stop them, they immediately released a statement saying that even if it didn't work then, it works now and continued to hoover up investment. Ultimately raking in 23 million euros before releasing their product, in December of 2015, a mobile phone charger......based on a lithium ion battery.
In 2016 the company was liquidated, and the ceo, Sean McCarthy, became a professional internet poker player. His assesment of the matter was this.
"We took their money. We raised their expectations and it fell flat on its fucking face. They've a right to be angry about that."
Well thanks, Sean...sooooooo..where did that money go? Certainly not into the invention of a lithium ion battery. Imma take "I put it in my poker pot for 500" Alex. What a cunt.
They even put it on display at Kinetica in London, in '07, it failed. You could pay a fee to see the specs. They continued to collect investments, however, and by 2009 it came out in the wash that the panel of "experts" they hired to vet the tech really did exist....which people had strongly doubted beforehand...but that they had determined that the tech absolutely and conclusively did not work. Steorn had fooled themselves. This didn't stop them, they immediately released a statement saying that even if it didn't work then, it works now and continued to hoover up investment. Ultimately raking in 23 million euros before releasing their product, in December of 2015, a mobile phone charger......based on a lithium ion battery.
In 2016 the company was liquidated, and the ceo, Sean McCarthy, became a professional internet poker player. His assesment of the matter was this.
"We took their money. We raised their expectations and it fell flat on its fucking face. They've a right to be angry about that."
Well thanks, Sean...sooooooo..where did that money go? Certainly not into the invention of a lithium ion battery. Imma take "I put it in my poker pot for 500" Alex. What a cunt.
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