Archer Quinn takes his ball and leaves the playing field

[jratcliff]

Well, it appears that the brief saga of Archer Quinn is now over.  After a series of ever more incoherent posts on this forum, and his website, he has decided to call it quits. 

It was certainly an interesting exercise in sociology and I think the 'roll on' thread, is likely to live on in infamy for some time to come.

In some respects it is surprising that this story got as much play is it did.  I believe it is because of the way Archer Quinn played/interacted with his audience that provided most of the entertainment value, that and the seductive promise of open source FE for all on a specific time and date.

As a bit of a debrief of the whole affair I had the following observations.

(1) Archer Quinn never provided anything but 'claims'.  No videos, no photographs, no blue-prints, sketches, and not a single coherent explanation of an alleged complete and working device. The only thing he did offer was 'free energy for all' in a completely open source fashion.  This promise holds at its core the essence of the divine allure of the FE Holy Grail quest and for this reason alone it attracted OU readers like moths to a flame or, in this case, flies to a bug-zapper.

(2) Archer Quinn presented himself as a very strong personality.  Having never met a spell-checker he couldn't ignore, his posts were highly emotional, full of bitterness and attacks on Isaac Newton; as if Sir Isaac had at some point in the past done something to deeply personally insult Mr. Quinn.  In fact the open anger, bitterness, bile, and spurious attacks on Newton were bizarre to witness as they unfolded.  His use of profanity, and inability to communicate in anything approximating a coherent fashion, added some spicy Cajun sauce to this over-unity gumbo.  In point of fact the poor grammar, atrocious spelling, foul language, incoherency, and generally bizarre nature of Mr. Quinn's communications seem to have created the tipping point in this unbalanced wheel of hype, promises, and inanity..

(3) Patient builders such as Clazner were quite happy to try to replicate whatever device Mr. Quinn had to offer but even Clazner's patience wore out in the face of an onslaught of verbal diarrhea spewing from Quinn's rambling and incoherent 'explanations' of  a device that, to be frank, didn't seem particularly different than any one of hundreds of other gravity wheelesque designs which have failed throughout history.

Is this story really over?  Probably not.  To date every time Archer has posted an announcement that he wouldn't do this or that anymore, he has come back to join the fray. 

I hope that Mr. Quinn learns something from this exercise.

(1) Stop wasting your time and energy attacking Newton, or anyone else.   It is pointless and a distraction from whatever it is you have to offer in terms of a working device.

(2) Stay on message and limit your commentary to the device itself.  Yeah, yeah, we all hate that oil prices are high and, yeah, yeah, we all want to shove it up skeptics ass if/when any OU device were ever to come to light.  Nevertheless, the focus is, in fact, on producing such a device.

(3) This one may be the most difficult of all, but show a little bit of humility.  Acknowledge that it is reasonable for those trying to understand what you are saying to be skeptical or to question the claims that you make.

(4) Just because you personally think/believe your device works, don't assume anyone else is going to accept, as fact, what amounts to nothing more than your unsupported claims.  The only proof is in replication.  The only real proof is in mass-produced replication (i.e. anyone can purchase an OU replicated device for $29.95 and submit it as their science fair project).  To accomplish this goal takes time, patience, and a lot more than you have offered to date.  It takes pictures, videos, sketches, diagrams, blue-prints, and coherent explanations. 

As usual, the 'Holy Grail' of FE is back up for grabs.  Let me know when I can buy a device, I have $29.95 burning a hole in my pocket as we speak.

John W. Ratcliff
www.jratcliffscarab.blogspot.com

[Feynman]

hahahahhah flies to a bug zappper ahahhahaha

[SeanTheLight]

When I saw the archer quinn announcement, my first thought was not "Oh great, finally someone is releasing" No, there are already numerous devices being spread around, each of which shows potential in one way or another. My first thought was "Ill bet this is a speed bump, to try and dissuade others from completing their projects".

So I ignored the quinn announcement, and continued doing what I am doing. Do not let any persons announcements stop you from doing your work. You are the future, not them.

[b0rg13]

i love it how so far it seems like %100 of the people who seem to have a god complex end up saying we are not ready for *it* blah blah, as usual its all turned out to be a joke on us the people, well i guess if were not ready for it, well have to settle for being robbed and raped still by the power Co , tyvm Mr Q....for showing us the Quiters Wheel..oh and you made a fantastic drama Queen as well ., enjoy ya day.

[Yucca]

Quinn acted like an agent of a big energy company, it's as if he purposely tried to make alt.energy sound CRAZY!

However, if he was the inventor of that thermal accelerator venturi feedback device as he claims then he does deserve some credit.