I'm in. I'm always game to participate in experiments. My ex didn't like it so much. He almost had a heart attack the day he came home from work and found a huge barn spider floating in alcohol sitting in a dish on the kitchen counter. He built me a little lab out in the shed after that.

Great. If we can gather enough interest in this then it might very well give some interesting results.

BTW, forgive my ignorance, but what was a huge barn spider in alcohol floating in a dish supposed to accomplish?

Ah, ok, sounds like fun

BTW we'll also need to decide on an event to "concentrate" on, so if anyone has any opinions on this, please put it up for discussion. It should probably be something insignificant (causes no harm), yet unusual (not easily attributed to coincidence).

Does anyone work at the White House? I'd like to try giving George Bush projectile diarrhea at his next press conference.

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lol. Wouldn't work though, we need something unusual .

But seriously, it should also be something easily verifiable in the event that the experiment does work.

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I'm up for this experiment!

Shall we start with sending fame and fortune my way.

Or world Peace is always a favorite in these kind of threads.

Or could we concentrate on having my exwife give me back all my stuff.

Am I being to selfish here?

A little joking is OK, though we probably should try to keep the thread serious and scientific, especially when the experiment actually begins.

Sounds very interesting. I would participate. I like the one where we all send fame and fortune to whaaa. If it works, then we can repeat the process for all of the participants.

Yeah, though you might not get as much universal cooperation out of that one . Besides if it takes 1000 people to make a difference, what good is it going to do to benefit just one person at a time?

We should probably start small. World peace is a good cause, but even if this ridiculous idea of mass consciousness having manipulative powers is true, I doubt even several thousand people participating would have any effect on something of such a large magnitude.

something unusual would be if we turned the moon purple or green. of course the moon wouldn't actually be that color, but maybe we could conjure up some sort of energy in the atmosphere that changes its appearance.

you'll need some bigger type experiment like that for everyone else to help verify the results. it'll help credibility and validity if we all succeed.

that sounds exciting count me in and let me know whats going on great ideal remember everyone would have to know exactly what to focus on tho

Edit: etshrtslr: Interesting, I didn't know there was something like this currently going on. I'll check it out.

Edit #2: Very interesting. It seems they achieved good results that would seem to indicate this effect exists. Still, I think we should try our own experiment here at ATS, since I think we can choose a slightly more exciting event than making plants grow

biggie smalls: We can start as soon as we decide on an action and when there are enough people ready to participate. It seems that there is a general interest in this sort of thing which is good, so now we just need to get the word out I guess. Don't know how that'll work. Maybe I should add a poll or something so we can get an idea how many people are willing to participate.

you'll need some bigger type experiment like that for everyone else to help verify the results. it'll help credibility and validity if we all succeed.

Obviously, the bigger the better, but I'm sure there's a limit to how much you can achieve, if anything at all, based on how many people participate. For example if there's a 1 in 1000 chance for something to happen, having 1000 people participate might reduce that to 50/50 chance. I don't know.

Obviously the more people the better. I don't know what it would take for more people to become aware of this "experiment", but either way we should probably start with something small due to the expectedly small number of people watching and participating in this experiment.

remember everyone would have to know exactly what to focus on tho

Definitely. An "official" event will be chosen for each experiment, from your suggestions. This will be made clear - obviously it won't do to have mixed goals.

I don't expect the first experiment to be anything spectacular, unfortunately, mainly because the lack of a huge audience as with Art Bell's experiment. However I am hopeful that with success, the number of participants will grow and so will the experiment, if successful.

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