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The guy who dug the water well on my parents land used a dowsing rod. Interestingly, he chose to use the dowsing rod in the lowest point of the meadow... which
by dicroce 5y ago
The guy who dug the water well on my parents land used a dowsing rod. Interestingly, he chose to use the dowsing rod in the lowest point of the meadow... which probably saved him a few feet of drilling.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoi have heard a personal experience of a family member who says he saw the event himself so i kinda have to understand it can be something: "people were digging for water on a road because there was a pipe leak somewhere and it needed to be plugged. so here were bunch of men having dug an entire road section but nothing. this guy comes up. says to wait. he then holds rods (assuming dowsing rods) and says "here. dig here" and there was water there. it can be a fluke but these men were tired and suddenly there was excitement.
- Boltgolt 5y agoThe thing is that you don't know how often that guy has been wrong.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agono i dont know and i am not making any assumptions based on my single anecdotal evidence. i am saying, i know someone who can attest to seeing this pheonomeon. thats all. nothing more than that
- lupire 5y agoYeah everyone knows someone who knows someone who saw it.
- staticassertion 5y agok but why even bother saying that? A friend of yours heard a story about a guy who did a thing. Repeating it is a distraction at best.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoYeah same in Chile, the guys call it "el palito", we must be getting the same flukes you are. Frankly I have no objections against dumb luck, if it is actually going to work, whatever. Like the weakness of science is prostitution. Not for math or humanities, but for science it's huge. Purdue Pharma is famous for its prostitutions, their biggest exploit was the majority of the guilt and blame for the opioid epidemic. That was carried out by several prostitutions carried out carefully and with great expertise, beginning with getting the FDA to agree that their opioid lasted twice as much as it actually did. The trick there is never to say twice or more, you can't overdo it, you actually have to promise almost twice as much as you deliver, 12 instead of 7, not 12 instead of 5. Scientists can't just make numbers up, well they can and do, but there's limits: no getting caught, can't double anything, can't look stupid on television. The second prostitution was sending their hot pharma rep sales team out to "refocus" the doctors on the 12 hour schedule for their drug, despite literally all of their patients saying it never lasted anywhere near that long. In this case I'm saying they got the doctors to believe "science" that were more made-up numbers pulled out of thin air. There were other prostitutions, like with the lawyers that defended them in court, and the nonprofits who sucked up to them publicly for their gifts of ill-gotten gains. And those pharma sales reps...surely they never actually sleep with the doctors? They just get super hot women for that job just to improve doctor's reading comprehension, like a hot teacher in a middle school, that'll learn those boys real good, surely. [Note: I know you're meant to say it differently, I'm being colloquial] (lightly edited)
- efficax 5y agoThe thing is that in most places there's going to be water almost everywhere
- weego 5y agoI mean having dug already they also immediately gave the dude a much higher chance of success because there's less space it can't be
- voakbasda 5y agoThis. It’s a great example of the Monty Hall problem. Once you have a little bit of information, your odds of success usually go up dramatically.
- felipemnoa 5y ago>>it can be a fluke It was a fluke
- maxerickson 5y agoUsually if there is an aquifer, the answer to whether drilling will hit it is "yes". Dowsing seems like a great way to convince the customer that you should drill where it is convenient for you though.