This can’t be for real…’“Hurtubise said he could see into the garage behind his lab wall, and read the licence plate on his wife’s car and even see the salt on it. “I almost broke my knuckles three or four times, because it was almost like you could step through the wall,” Hurtubise said.”’
Um… this strikes me as a joke. First, he has “covert help” from people at MIT. Who are these people? Why would they be helping him? Also, why would a man, capable of building something that defies the laws of physics call the main part a “centrifuge” when it apparently doesn’t centrifuge anything?
And of course, there’s the point that this thing is ridiculous. It can see through any material, but for some reason it only sees through one layer of skin? What?
It just gets weirder and weirder…this is apparently the guy who created a bear suit that got press a while back. There really is an MIT guy with the same name as the one mentioned in the story…his homepage is a campy collection of Principia Discordia links and pro-pot propaganda.
The fundamental problem with this type of device is, how does it know what you want to see through, and what you want to see?
Picture the scene. You are in the corridor at school. The girls’ locker room is behind the wall to your left. Goody! You use your Wall-O-Scan[sup]TM[/sup] machine to peer through the wall… but what’s that? You look straight through the wall, through Cindy Rockwell’s towel… and straight through her, and the far wall of the locker room, and into the adjacent boys’ locker room, where the PenetratoBeam has just enough residual power to render transparent the fat kid’s towel, but sadly not enough to spare you the sight of his hairy butt. :smack:
Of course, if the machine can see through everything, then you simply point it at your feet and enjoy the view of the furthest reaches of the universe. Fun, huh?
Deflector grid? Plasma + carbon dioxide??? Magnets and mirrors and lasers… I can think of more convincing sciency “sciency” sounding stuff right now. My device has… uh… xenon, carbon monoxide and… cathodes.
Incidentally, disregarding the fact that
isn’t even grammatically correct, you can find a way cheaper plane on Google in 0.21 seconds.
And of course, due to strange effects nobody understands, he decided that for the better good it had to go, so he "dismantled the whole thing.” I guess there’s no choice but to believe him now. Forget debunking - there aren’t any facts. May as well debunk my story that I went for a ride on an invisible pink unicorn last week.
What I find most sketchy is the idea that he was able to see his blood vessels with it:
The Hurtubise has got some finetuning extraordinaire on his device if The Hurtubise can set it to see through his skin but not through the blood vessels immediately under his skin. Sounds like a swindler to me.
*BayToday.ca has obtained documentation confirming that the former head of Saudi counter-intelligence, who asked that his name not be used, has been in regular contact with Hurtubise regarding the Angel Light, fire paste, and the Light Infantry Military Blast Cushions (LIMBC).
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“They told me that I was playing with electromagnetism”
When man plays God, disaster is the only outcome. Plasma, microwaves, carbon dioxide, magnets, yay, even 108 mirrors! Is there no limit to man’s folly?
The only thing this machine will see is the downfall which will reward such hubris.
He says the airplane and model car all stopped working when the light hit them. I’m only assuming that his wife’s car is still in the garage since he looked at it with the device.
So he’s standing in the path of the beam? So why didn’t it make him invisible? Or why didn’t he notice the skin-flaying effect at this point? Or die like the goldfish?
Oh I get it. He’s trying to scam the Saudis into giving him some development money. Well, best of luck to him. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of being scammed.
The credulous tone of the article seems to be in keeping with the newspaper’s motto: “We do news differently.”