If you haven't run across it (and I'm only presuming big brother hasn't removed it from the web) there's accounts of a doctor from over a hundred years ago who was dealing with severe TB (?) patients and could predict their time of death to within an hour. So he'd place them in a bodylength pan, hanging from a scale, where he could retain all their various effluvium and also their respiration products, and all of them, irrespective of size, at the moment of their deaths the scale would short by 21 grams.
I wasn't there. Cool story.
The article was real, from a NYC paper. No one ever 'debunked' it, just a lot of hemming about spaghetti monster. Never made any sense out of that. Presumably their theory was that the 21 grams flitted to italian restaurants and helped make new spaghetti.
If you haven't run across it (and I'm only presuming big brother hasn't removed it from the web) there's accounts of a doctor from over a hundred years ago who was dealing with severe TB (?) patients and could predict their time of death to within an hour. So he'd place them in a bodylength pan, hanging from a scale, where he could retain all their various effluvium and also their respiration products, and all of them, irrespective of size, at the moment of their deaths the scale would short by 21 grams.
I wasn't there. Cool story.
The article was real, from a NYC paper. No one ever 'debunked' it, just a lot of hemming about spaghetti monster. Never made any sense out of that. Presumably their theory was that the 21 grams flitted to italian restaurants and helped make new spaghetti.