# Steorn (remember them?) Jury Makes Surprising announcement

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**Created:** [June 28, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steorn-remember-them-jury-makes-surprising-announcement/501243 "2009-06-28T04:10:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steorn-remember-them-jury-makes-surprising-announcement/501243/1 "2009-06-28T04:10:52Z")

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For those who don’t remember or didn’t hear, in 2006 an Irish company made a big splash by taking out an expensive ad in the Economist announcing they’d made a perpetual motion machine called Orbo. They then appointed a jury of scientists and engineers to review it.

The jury’s announcement itself is [here](http://stjury.ning.com/forum/topics/jury-announcement) and the confirmation on Steorn’s own website from which we can take it that the announcement is real is [here](http://www.steorn.com/news/releases/?id=1151).

Why surprising? I am amazed that such a bunch of obvious scam artistes didn’t rig their jury more effectively.