If you've been following my skeptical adventures, you know I have attended the Amazing Meeting 6 (organized by the James Randi Educational Foundation) about a month ago in Las Vegas. Not only have I had a blast and met lots of wonderful people, but I also had the privilege of doing a LIVE experiment with none other than Australian Skeptic's Richard Saunders.
Check out Richard Saunders here:
http://tankvodcast.wordpress.com/
http://www.skeptics.com.au/
The Amazing meeting here: http://www.randi.org/
As always, music is by Hoodless (hoodlessrocks.com) and is used with permission.
For more information, go to http://www.smarterthanthat.com
I've been studying the shroud for years. I'm sure shroud supporters have some kind of response, but I have not run across it yet. If I were a shroud suppoter, I think I would say that the shroud would have fit more loosely than in this demonstration. So really you only have points of contact on the higher surfaces, such as the nose and cheekbones. So really you would only have a slight distotion. But this is the reason you have to use a bas-relief to get a realistic face image on a shroud.
mjt532 2 months ago
What's interesting is that all of this confident presentation, emotive exposition never actually delivers the factual conclusion, which is, respectfully, ignorance. I love what looks to be an homage to early Robin Williams with the rainbow suspenders...But at what point to skeptics put down the pretense of knowing everything that comes along as mysterious? If the BEST scientists can't reproduce or reverse engineer the process, why not simply and honestly say: "We don't know."
NilDesperandum777 2 years ago
You should probably have used a colored substance on Richard's face, or black paper/cloth. But other than that, very nice. I hadn't thought of the 2D-->3D projection before with the Shroud of Turin.
KaaSerpent 2 years ago
MAKE MORE FUCKING VIDEOS!
...please.
TomSFox 3 years ago
OMG. Humour and irony is dead........
acs1978au 3 years ago
Now, see, there's your problem right there. You call someone a "Bigot" just because they think the world is round. If that's not an Ad Hominem I don't know what is. And you completely ignored what I said about Antarctica.
dechha1981 3 years ago
it is flat you close minded bigot
acs1978au 3 years ago
bitch you piss me off, hair on the back of the neck rising, primal shit, hate
fuck me please
freakheavy 3 years ago
You mean... the shroud was a fraud? Who would have thought! lol!
freedom0f5peech 3 years ago
She blinded him with science!
EMTRUE 3 years ago