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Miah said:Anyone have info on whether this guy is bunk or not? Entertaining story if nothing else.
musictomyears said:I had a quick look around the net, there seems to be nothing, or nobody, that could corroborate his story. No professional affiliations... Has anybody at least checked out the newspaper clippings he uses..?
However, his is an interesting story. Some of the peripheral information is pretty correct, and makes sense. But the idea that a 17 year old can build a rocket that nobody else has ever been able to reproduce... That's rich.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/adair.html
dorkbot said:At about 25:00 in the video he makes the claim that, as a teenager, in July 1969, he met Stephen Hawking at Ohio State University and corrected his math. He then claims Hawking acknowledged him as a "brother" because they both received their math skillz through dreams. Surely Hawking will vouch for his bro....or is Hawking part of the coverup as well?
Farside said:can you find this out for us?
dorkbot said:um...no. That's Greer's job.
Miah said:Anyone have info on whether this guy is bunk or not? Entertaining story if nothing else.
dorkbot said:At about 25:00 in the video he makes the claim that, as a teenager, in July 1969, he met Stephen Hawking at Ohio State University and corrected his math. He then claims Hawking acknowledged him as a "brother" because they both received their math skillz through dreams. Surely Hawking will vouch for his bro....or is Hawking part of the coverup as well?
dorkbot said:If you search around you'll see this guy has been telling this story for over ten years now. Since then nobody has been able to verify any of his many claims, even the ones that have nothing to do with ufos. People who have looked at his claims say he doesn't even know much more than buzz words about conventional rocket science.
I would say he has an above average memory for things he's read or watched on tv and is a fairly good storyteller but an absolutely terrible hoaxer. If he actually had eidetic memory it would be trivial for him to verify any questions about his claims or at least create a story that would be internally consistent and plausibly difficult to verify. Instead, he can't stop himself from telling whopper after whopper about stuff that's easily checked up on. At least Lazar came up with a W-2 form and is a pretty smart science geek. This guy is a bad Lazar wannabe with zero documentation who had a go at working the ufo circuit for fun, attention and profit. You see the same type of storyteller working the evangelical church circuit.
According to Art Bell, this was the guy's website: http://www.flyingsaucers.com/ Pretty impressive.
my .02
Gene Steinberg said:So is this alien coffee, and is it better than Starbucks? Anyway, I'm not a fan of Starbucks, actually.
MarsAve said:Even Peter Jennings farce show didn't even include him.......looking back now and having watched this show on re-runs,,,,it sure is obvious to me what Jennings show was designed to do. 1st hour, all glossy coverage - then the 2nd hour is all rip it to shreds and make everybody look like a fool, and throw doubt on everybody. The best story of Jennings show was the B-52 Crew - who encountered something near Minot ND......highly qualified to fly a B-52 and most likely with the ultimate weapon aboard, but totally discounted by the way the show was produced and protrayed, like they were too stupid to know what they were encountering outside the jet...........unbelievable that people still swallow that garbage that Jennings and his show produced. That Jennings would do such a show in the first place really intirgued me....after watching the 2nd hour of that show, I now know why!!
MarsAve
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I think it is up to David Adair to prove his extraordinary claims like correcting Hawkins. It is not unusual for such claiments to make these claims to impress the gullible,. I, personally need more evidence than a rehash of previously doubtful claims out of Las Vegas years ago.A.LeClair said:Stephen got corrected on a mathematical problem by one or more of his students before. He was sure he was right, but wasn't. I wonder if this had any influence on Adair's story.
Apollonius said:I think it is up to David Adair to prove his extraordinary claims like correcting Hawkins. It is not unusual for such claiments to make these claims to impress the gullible,. I, personally need more evidence than a rehash of previously doubtful claims out of Las Vegas years ago.