# Uri Geller: full of Sh\*\* or not? You decide! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332 "2001-01-04T01:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/1 "2001-01-04T01:47:51Z")
Re: [this](http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/01/tod.07.html) I quote: > [@](#): > > we’re also very concerned about asteroids or comets hitting our planet. So, we will move laser beams onto 747s just cases an asteroid or a comet will come close to our planet. We will be able to shoot them down before they cause a major catastrophe. We’re going to mount lasers on 747s to shoot down asteroids that might crash into our planet?? Who is the genius that came up with this??? This is almost too stupid to laugh at! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/2 "2001-01-04T01:51:43Z")
Why doesn’t he just use his powers to melt them like the friggin’ spoons? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/3 "2001-01-04T01:52:15Z")
Sorry, pal; I didn’t get much further than Geller relating the teleporting of a light particle across a room. ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/4 "2001-01-04T01:55:36Z")
Uri Geller is to science as 'N Sync is to music ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/5 "2001-01-04T02:37:43Z")
May we also extend a hearty Bronx cheer to the Cable News Network for putting that well-known charlatan/doofus on the air? _thbbbbbbbbbbppt!_ ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/6 "2001-01-04T04:29:48Z")
Now wait a minute! Why can’t we put lasers on 747’s? Then when the aliens come, we can blast them from the sky too, and Uri can call the Sandworms from the deserts to rise up and spit lots of spice at the sky so that were safe from detection from the martians, and all 12 billion people can rush any enemy forces that have landed, i think our sheer numbers will overpower them. Al gore can invent the laser beam devices to attach to the planes of course… And if all else fails, Uri can bend the aliens keys so they can’t get back into their ships! Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/7 "2001-01-04T04:34:14Z")
**Soulsling** , what do you mean _when_ the aliens come? I thought they were already here!! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/8 "2001-01-04T04:35:32Z")
Must…resist…[hijacking…this…thread…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sowthread.php?threadid=44855) ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/9 "2001-01-04T05:29:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*Re: [this](http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/01/tod.07.html) > > We’re going to mount lasers on 747s to shoot down asteroids that might crash into our planet?? Who is the genius that came up with this??? This is almost too stupid to laugh at! \*\* Honestly, this sounds like the Homer Simpson Solution. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/10 "2001-01-04T13:01:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*we’re also very concerned about asteroids or comets hitting our planet. > \*\* And this would be a bad thing? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/11 "2001-01-04T13:29:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by City Gent \* > \*\*Uri Geller is to science as 'N Sync is to music \*\* You’re being FAR too cheritable to Geller here. Whereas NSync are BAD music, they ARE music… Geller doesn’t even RESEMBLE science. Or logic, for that reason… Shall I tell the story of how the evil Nazi Pokemon ruined Geller’s reputation? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/12 "2001-01-04T13:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > **Or logic, for that reason…** Er…for that _matter_. Don’t know WHAT happened there… ---
**Author:** ![Clairmont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Clairmont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clairmont)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/13 "2001-01-04T13:41:25Z")
Geller “mispoke.” He meant photon torpedoes. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/14 "2001-01-04T14:22:40Z")
ID4 wasn’t a documentary?!? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/15 "2001-01-04T14:39:52Z")
Ha Ha Ha! He said that aliens aren’t going to arrive on the White House lawn. Hasn’t he seen the Weekly World News saying they already have? If we can’t trust major media outlets like the “News” who can we trust? /hijack/ I keep laughing over the mental image of Gellar taking that guys house keys and saying something like “I’ll show you.” and then bending all his keys with his hands. He doesn’t say how he bent them, just that he did. /hijack/ ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/16 "2001-01-04T14:56:15Z")
Scientists teleport light particle across room According to a new study released today, scientists have succeeded in teleporting particles of light, also known as “photons” across a laboratory. The scientists used a device known as a “laser” to emit a series of these photons. These photons were then reported to have materialized at a sensor over fifty feet away. Reports indicate that this form of teleportation works “at light speed”. [/quote] As for the rest of his ideas, they are the sort of crap that can’t even get published as science fiction anymore. His logic seems to be completely unfamiliar with the entire concept of causality. Maybe for amusement I’ll go see what James Randi has to say about him. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/17 "2001-01-05T03:37:11Z")
To be fair to Geller, I’m sure he’s not originating any of that crap. What’s sad is you get articles that describe science that way. Regarding the “teleporting light” thing, that is a mangled interpretation of the teleportation thing. It is somewhat of an approximation in lay terms without understanding the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. It’s about as accurate as saying your TV creates the TV shows when you turn it on. The idea of lasers on planes was used in the TV movie _Asteroid_. There’s a logistics problem with using a plane to aim at a meteor that is entering the atmosphere at orbital speeds. It’s just not going to happen, not to mention the power requirements to put enough energy into a meteor to do any damage. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/18 "2001-01-05T05:05:51Z")
Hey, my old man put lasers on 707’s, that’s pretty close. Of course, they could barely blast a drone at a few miles, and the exhaust from the hypergolic reaction needed to power the laser came close to stressing the structure of the plane from the rocket-like exhaust, but hey? An asteroid? All you’d need is a nuclear bomb to power the laser. Oh, wait a minute… Uri, you’re gonna be the pilot, riiiiiight? ---
**Author:** ![Silly\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Silly\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silly_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/19 "2001-01-05T05:24:38Z")
I actually KNOW someone who gets up at 4 a.m. and puts his crystal in the middle of this orange dot from Gellar’s book because Gellar said he will re-energize all crystals at that time!! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332/20 "2001-01-05T14:21:56Z")
Yes, he IS full of sh\*\*. But when he opens his mouth, he gets a little emptier. I cannot Believe that jay Leno had this guy on and acted like gee, maybe this guys legit. What a wuss.(Leno) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uri-geller-full-of-sh-or-not-you-decide/48332.md?page=2)