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[steornwatch]

Hello All,

Thought I'd drop by and reply regarding the speculation about SteornWatch.com being part of a Steorn ARG.

We do plan to post about each of the "hoax" theories that exists, including that it is a big ARG. As you can tell at the moment, the site is barely there. Just been working on setting it up and trying to recruit some contributers to help with writing and internet researching.

The site is "slick" because i used a template from Headsetoptions which I found at http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/877/easy-white-v4/. I hate bad design and don't have the time or inclination to create a customer theme. I figured there are a lot of tech-savvy people buzzing about Steorn's claims, so I should have a clean design.

No conspiracy theory going on with Steornwatch.com . sorry to disappoint.

If anyone is interested in contributing to Steornwatch.com, I can be contacted via the site.

[Delusional]

I hope somebody saved the contents of the open directorys, as they are all closed now. If so, could somebody post them?

If this is an ARG I think we can now say steornwatch isn't a part of it.

[oxdeltaxo]

Thats was quick, only an hour ago i was able to access those directories.

[Nova Loop]

I suppose that is why my .zip download stopped.
I only had the images dir open in my browser so I created a pdf of the dir listing.
Here it is.

Edit: I hate typos

[bwochinski]

here's the list for the /images/ directory...

I hate PDFs...

EDIT: the /en/coverage.htm page has also been removed.

[thebruce]

well, yup, I registered as a scientist... couldn't think of a spoof institution, so just put MIT, and a 'BS' in astrophysics
we'll see what comes with this 'offline verification' system.
I'm guessing quite a number of those almost 3000 registrations are fake or dummy users too...

[bwochinski]

I grabbed a quick backup copy of the "coverage.html" file, as they hadn't deleted it out of some of the other language folders..

Posted up the backup here: http://www.ideltech.com/steorn/coverage.html

And all of the links work exactly as they do on the actual site. (as in, they're all broken) This page is clearly from an earlier or development version of the site.

[Nova Loop]

[Rolerbe]

I spent the time and read the patent submission. It is plausible enough to have been an actual patent submission in that it describes a device that could concievably have some utility and looks good enough not to be rejected out of hand by the patent office.

but it is also sketchy enough to be a spoof.

its only 14 pages -- short for any serious patent

does not make any claim for energy creation

clearly could not lead in any way to energy creation (for reasons that are pretty obvious)

lists only one reference for prior art (way too brief)

My feeling is that its a 'real' patent application made by someone who is familiar enough with patent apps to not find it too big a deal to put it together, then co-opted for this arg/spoof site.

[DrBunker]

It may be nothing but it tweaked my interest...

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/01/23/ireland.invention/

Two reasons: it's about a free energy system and the story emanated from Dublin, Ireland.

It seemed to be a fairly "big" story in certain circles a few years ago.

[Fardo.NL]

I have registered as well.. I am still not sure it's an ARG though

[atdt1991]

[atdt1991]

[oxdeltaxo]

@atdt1991

No one from steorn has posted on uf that we know of. Thats Steorn watch, and has no connection what so ever to steorn.

[atdt1991]