Myrrdin
Expert Member
SOUTH AFRICA – AGAIN?
It’s hard to believe, but this nation seems once again to be entertaining woo-woo ideas about reality, this time a South African invention – the Matter Orientation System (MOS) – that claims to have found live as well as dead bodies, and to have been used on the internationally-famous mystery case of the missing little girl, Madeleine McCann. A S.A. TV program titled “Carte Blanche” related how this miraculous invention had also possibly solved the disappearance of six young girls who are believed to have perished at the hands of an infamous pedophile named Gert van Rooyen and his accomplice, Joey Haarhoff, in the late 1980s.
The “inventor,” a former police colonel named Daniel Krugel, head of security service at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, seems shy about commenting on the Madeleine issue, but that’s not the only question being asked of him. Far more basic are the technological claims he offers for this device, claims that make Tom Swift notions seem sensible. His invention, he says, uses a small sample of “signature” and "like" material – such as a single hair – to "geographically pinpoint the main body from which it was sourced," as Carte Blanche explained to their eager viewers. Krugel claimed to have “pinpointed” Van Rooyen's home in Capital Park, Pretoria, with this piece of technological flummery, though that just happened to be less than two kilometers from the last place where the missing girls were thought to have been… How did he know, we must wonder!
Carte Blanche viewers were told:
The invention is thought to be based on quantum physics, and a global positioning system, or GPS, is used to define the search area.
Well, that does it for me! When the word “quantum” appears, we know that an invention is genuine, right? Unfortunately for us, but very fortunately for Colonel Krugel, the suspects Van Rooyen and Haarhoff died following a police chase. Drat! But whether there’s a GPS contained in the MOS, could be determined by a simple examination – yet the device has never been examined! Why not, we ask?
Says Krugel:
It is anticipated that the MOS will have far reaching application, being able to identify and locate like for like matter, to assist with matter detection in criminal investigations, forensic and medical applications, geology and mining as well as bio-chemical matter detection.
And, we’re told, controlled environment testing of the MOS is currently under way. All this leads us to enthusiastically offer Colonel Daniel Krugel, and Carte Blanche, the JREF million-dollar prize, if the MOS can operate as claimed. Tests would take less than an hour, and we already have experts standing by on site to spring into action as soon as Krugel or Carte Blanche give us the word. Now, we understand, a clairvoyant named Marietta Theunissen [see randi.org/jr/043004bad.html#2] has been called in, so this could be a major validation of both mystical powers and/or advanced technology!
However, knowing how reluctant South African wonder-workers are to accept our million-dollar prize, we at the JREF rather doubt that we should hustle to prepare for action, even though R7,015,250 is a rather nice amount of currency…
As we go to press, South African ministry official Charles Nqakula has appeared on e.tv's “3rd Degree” in South Africa expressing his enthusiasm for the device and speculating that the police could make good use of it, and some of Krugel's former police colleagues in Bloemfontein and the small Free State town of Brandfort, believe it's all “a gift from God.”
How could we possibly have doubted…?
That very loud silence you hear is from Colonel Krugel and Carte Blanche…
http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-08/081007reason.html#i4
It’s hard to believe, but this nation seems once again to be entertaining woo-woo ideas about reality, this time a South African invention – the Matter Orientation System (MOS) – that claims to have found live as well as dead bodies, and to have been used on the internationally-famous mystery case of the missing little girl, Madeleine McCann. A S.A. TV program titled “Carte Blanche” related how this miraculous invention had also possibly solved the disappearance of six young girls who are believed to have perished at the hands of an infamous pedophile named Gert van Rooyen and his accomplice, Joey Haarhoff, in the late 1980s.
The “inventor,” a former police colonel named Daniel Krugel, head of security service at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, seems shy about commenting on the Madeleine issue, but that’s not the only question being asked of him. Far more basic are the technological claims he offers for this device, claims that make Tom Swift notions seem sensible. His invention, he says, uses a small sample of “signature” and "like" material – such as a single hair – to "geographically pinpoint the main body from which it was sourced," as Carte Blanche explained to their eager viewers. Krugel claimed to have “pinpointed” Van Rooyen's home in Capital Park, Pretoria, with this piece of technological flummery, though that just happened to be less than two kilometers from the last place where the missing girls were thought to have been… How did he know, we must wonder!
Carte Blanche viewers were told:
The invention is thought to be based on quantum physics, and a global positioning system, or GPS, is used to define the search area.
Well, that does it for me! When the word “quantum” appears, we know that an invention is genuine, right? Unfortunately for us, but very fortunately for Colonel Krugel, the suspects Van Rooyen and Haarhoff died following a police chase. Drat! But whether there’s a GPS contained in the MOS, could be determined by a simple examination – yet the device has never been examined! Why not, we ask?
Says Krugel:
It is anticipated that the MOS will have far reaching application, being able to identify and locate like for like matter, to assist with matter detection in criminal investigations, forensic and medical applications, geology and mining as well as bio-chemical matter detection.
And, we’re told, controlled environment testing of the MOS is currently under way. All this leads us to enthusiastically offer Colonel Daniel Krugel, and Carte Blanche, the JREF million-dollar prize, if the MOS can operate as claimed. Tests would take less than an hour, and we already have experts standing by on site to spring into action as soon as Krugel or Carte Blanche give us the word. Now, we understand, a clairvoyant named Marietta Theunissen [see randi.org/jr/043004bad.html#2] has been called in, so this could be a major validation of both mystical powers and/or advanced technology!
However, knowing how reluctant South African wonder-workers are to accept our million-dollar prize, we at the JREF rather doubt that we should hustle to prepare for action, even though R7,015,250 is a rather nice amount of currency…
As we go to press, South African ministry official Charles Nqakula has appeared on e.tv's “3rd Degree” in South Africa expressing his enthusiasm for the device and speculating that the police could make good use of it, and some of Krugel's former police colleagues in Bloemfontein and the small Free State town of Brandfort, believe it's all “a gift from God.”
How could we possibly have doubted…?
That very loud silence you hear is from Colonel Krugel and Carte Blanche…
http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-08/081007reason.html#i4
