Comments on: A human nervous system is necessary to operate a Hieronymus Machine https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2834185 Bruce Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:44:55 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2834185 Campbell was editing Analog when a whole lot of smart engineers were reading Analog, and sending letters. General Abrams read Analog in Vietnam. Editing a magazine a lot of smart engineers read is real intellectual power.

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2832587 Sam J. Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:22:37 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2832587 One last thing the only one of these I’ve used is dousing rods and I’ve been able to find the location of water pipes with them. I have no idea how but I know the rods turned when I walked over a buried water pipe. I did not know where the pipe was when walking over it but there was a plumber that did, because he buried it, and he said that where I indicated was where one of the water lines were. Spooky but that’s my experience.

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2832533 Sam J. Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:06:13 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2832533 A download link

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5B190652C88F66C91197A0C0ADAD5C64

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2832525 Sam J. Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:03:58 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2832525 Eloptics

Here you go, “Mind Machines You Can Build” by G. Harry Stine

https://www.amazon.com/Machines-Build-Harry-Stine-1994-08-01/dp/B01JXTQGTW?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffnt-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01JXTQGTW

same book first version

https://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Science-Strange-Machines-Build/dp/0689115628/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Here’s another book on the same subject. Both of these are interesting. The Goodavage covers a lot more. The Stine book has a bit of interesting commentary but is mostly how they are built and a short explanation of the performance of each tool. Stine said that he cured a viral outbreak in his daughter with one of these machines. He said the rapidity of the destruction of the virus made him very afraid and he destroyed the machine. Supposedly these machines can destroy insect infestations on plants.

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Future-Joseph-Goodavage-1976-07-06/dp/B01I2639D8?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffnt-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01I2639D8

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2826395 Kirk Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:03:19 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2826395 It’s kind of amazing how much influence that Campbell had on things, when you think about it: All he really ever did was edit a couple of SF magazines, and when you go back and trace things out, there’s instance after instance where someone got an idea from him, or entire genres got started within SF.

Most of the “psi” crap in popular psychology came out of stuff he first published in the 1940s-50s, and had a bunch of people going to actually look for it in the 60s-70s. To some degree, I think it warped the reality, just a little.

]]> By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/a-human-nervous-system-is-necessary-to-operate-a-hieronymus-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2825748 Adar Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:54:50 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45169#comment-2825748 Make it thunder. Just once. Make it thunder.

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