The Curious Case of Mike "Madman" Marcum and his Jacobs Ladder Time Travel Device (light, government)

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by Vasily

However ... when I lived in Orange County Virginia, there were tons of Shiffletts or Shifletts and Shiflettes in the county, many with the same first name. And there are lots of Midgets and Midgettes on the Outer Banks in North Carolina. So I suspect there just happen to be a lot of Marcums living in Missouri. You do have three won by women named Becky (Rebecca) Marcum - but Becky's a pretty popular name - Tom Sawyer's love interest was Becky Thatcher, after all, and the novel was set in a fictional Missouri town.

https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/...idgett-family/
https://www.klein-shiflett.com/shifl...I/surname.html

It's a fictional story set in a very real Missouri town. Hannibal, MO.

[Vasily]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

It's a fictional story set in a very real Missouri town. Hannibal, MO.

It's set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, MO ... which was based on Hannibal.

https://wishbone.fandom.com/wiki/St....burg,_Missouri

The reader may rest satisfied that Tom’s and Huck’s windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.

(from Chapter 35, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by Vasily

It's set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, MO ... which was based on Hannibal.

https://wishbone.fandom.com/wiki/St....burg,_Missouri

The reader may rest satisfied that Tom’s and Huck’s windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.

(from Chapter 35, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Huh! I didn't know that! My apologies!

[Vasily]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

Huh! I didn't know that! My apologies!

No problem. Hannibal certainly makes a big deal of being Tom Sawyer's home town.

[ocpaul20]

Originally Posted by rstevens62

... Ever since my high school experiment with 2 magnets and creating a small space of 'anti gravity',I had always wanted to scale it up and see if I could suspend a larger object in mid air, unfortunately, I have the same problem as this guy...Lack of funds for such things!

You might be interested in the video done by a whistleblower (can't remember his name at the moment) who used to work for one of the large aircraft companies, feeling it was McDonnell Douglas. He demonstrated on camera how a magnet dropped through a copper pipe (looked about 12 inches x 1.5 cm dia) would take say 3 seconds and one dropped through an aluminium pipe of the same bore and length would take about 5 or 6 seconds. I am sure I have this video somewhere but cannot find it now. I will look. It might be a good experiment to do but how to use that, I have no idea as I am not scientifically minded.

[rstevens62]

Originally Posted by ocpaul20

You might be interested in the video done by a whistleblower (can't remember his name at the moment) who used to work for one of the large aircraft companies, feeling it was McDonnell Douglas. He demonstrated on camera how a magnet dropped through a copper pipe (looked about 12 inches x 1.5 cm dia) would take say 3 seconds and one dropped through an aluminium pipe of the same bore and length would take about 5 or 6 seconds. I am sure I have this video somewhere but cannot find it now. I will look. It might be a good experiment to do but how to use that, I have no idea as I am not scientifically minded.

Thats interesting, Im not really scientifically minded either, (Im terrible at math), but I do like to see the results of experiments, I may not be able to 'scientifically' explain results, but if they produce amazing results, someone else can explain it.

[jetstan]

Don't you need a ticket with the right numbers to win a lottery?

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by ocpaul20

You might be interested in the video done by a whistleblower (can't remember his name at the moment) who used to work for one of the large aircraft companies, feeling it was McDonnell Douglas. He demonstrated on camera how a magnet dropped through a copper pipe (looked about 12 inches x 1.5 cm dia) would take say 3 seconds and one dropped through an aluminium pipe of the same bore and length would take about 5 or 6 seconds. I am sure I have this video somewhere but cannot find it now. I will look. It might be a good experiment to do but how to use that, I have no idea as I am not scientifically minded.

I believe that was shown on an episode of Ancient Aliens a few years ago.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by steiconi

He mentioned that none had won the Grand Prize. Does this list include people who won small prizes? Marcum would need quite a bit of money, and winning even a few thousand a year wouldn't be enough.

This also may not be a lot of Marcums, relatively speaking.
How many similar prizes were awarded each year? Hundreds? Thousands?
How many Marcums are there in Missouri? What percentage of the entire population?

Compare the percentage of Marcums in the state to the percentage of lottery wins (and dollar amounts) by Marcums, and you might have some usable data.

In the US there are about 14,500 'Marcum's. There are about 2,500,000 'Smith's. And, like you point out, we have no idea how much each Marcum won or how much each Smith won in the State of Missouri. Maybe they won $5?

By the way, I have two transformers that can make the Jacobs Ladder. One is a 9,000-volt and one a 12,000 volt. The 12,000-volt will make a spark about 3" long before it breaks. Both transformers were old neon sign transformers. To make the Jacobs Ladder I can use bent coat hangers or 4' long (stiff) suspended ceiling wire sections. I just bend them to come close (about an inch apart) at the bottom and then three or four inches apart at the top. I never time traveled with them, but I did produce plenty of ozone.

Keep in mind that the Jacobs Ladder is not a Van De Graaff Generator (high voltage with very little current). There is plenty of current to paralyze or even kill you if you get grounded playing with the spark. I got grounded with my smaller 9,000-volt transformer and could not move, but a friend knocked me off with a chair (I was very lucky).

[ocpaul20]

I have found the guy I was talking about earlier - Senior Lockheed Martin Research Scientist - Boyd Bushman. Look him up on Youtube, an interesting guy.