Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy. It could be. Pynchon wrote V. in 1963, and The Crying of Lot 49 in 1966. Predates your Banzai Boys by a couple of decades.
Hydrick might have been able to avoid turning a single pinwheel, but still hit a corner of the page - his breath control techniques were pretty phenomenal - still, it’s a nice visual.
I saw a part of it, as Hydrick made UK Channel 4’s Fifty Greatest Magic Tricks. Hydrick came in at 34. Coincidentally the show’s reviewer is Ian Rowland, better known here as Ianzin, who is not too impressed at Hydrick’s inclusion.
I have the show on VHS somewhere. I recall it showed Hydrick’s martial arts school, among other things, where plenty of people paid to learn his telekinetic skills…
I saw both shows when I was a kid. I thought I remember “That’s my line” showing the microphone part on the show but maybe I’ve created the image in my head. Or maybe I’m psychic! How do I test for that?
The exposure and confession is available in book form - the author is Dan Korem - I have a copy on my shelf. I realise that’s not the same kind of evidence as a video clip of Hydrick appearing on a screen and admitting he’s a fraud, but I think the whole thing has been established beyond any reasonable doubt now anyway.
Plus somebody might even have provided a link to where the actual video confession can be purchased. Oh, wait, I did. I must be on more ignore lists…
Directly after the Growing Excited Company, but indirectly both.
I saw that! I was just backing you up.
Sorry, I guess I am just a little sensitive since I posted a link to the confession early on and people just kept talking about it like it was not an admitted hoax. I kept checking my link to see if it went where I thought it did…
The GQ was about whether the test shown in the video was a valid test. Whether the performer had or didn’t have psychic abilities was and is irrelevant to the thread. (No offense. I’m just saying.)
The closest we have come so far is Mangetout’s observation that there was no evidence of static cling when the pages were turned, but doesn’t rule out the possibility.
So ideally, I would like to know about how many more pounds per inch of pressure would need to be exerted on a page of paper if it had some basic static cling holding it closed, versus no static cling?
No offense taken. And you make a very good point. I did completely miss the call of the question. I must have skipped that last sentence. I will now quietly slink away since I have little knowledge of the physics involved. (or of the physics not involved) Apologies to all.