After the last couple of X-Men movies I really hope this turns out to be as good as it looks.

Clearly not content to actually wait until after their latest prediction has been proven wrong before changing it, the guys at Rapture Ready have once more put back the date for the end of the world as we know it.

For those who don’t know Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year and it takes place at the end of September, which gives the Rapture Ready guys a nice 8 month buffer before they have to update their website again.

Ok so I don’t speak Chinese and I am a little dubious about the idea behind this one, but still this has to be the greatest invention of all time. It is a device that allegedly makes womens boobs bigger by jiggling them. Seriously what is not to love about that?

Man I love science.

Yup, those fun loving guys over at Rapture Ready are back with a new prediction for the end of the world as we know it.

I don’t know about you but I think they might be onto something this time. Sure they have been completely wrong the last twenty or so times they predicted this exact same event but if you keep throwing dates out there then you are bound to get lucky some time, right? I just love how confident they are even though they keep getting it wrong, it brings a smile to my face every time.

This looks awesome too. And hopefully there well be no gay cowboys in this one. Fool me once and all that.

Now it is possible I have mentioned this movie before, it has been so long since I blogged that I really can’t remember what I have talked about. However there is a new trailer out so it is worth mentioning again. Smoking hot girls, giant robots and dragons, seriously what’s not to like?

So that’s it then. The evil robot uprising just took another giant leap forward. Now this may look cute but what you are seeing here is the beginning of the end for humanity. Combine this with the news from a couple of months back about Robot’s mimicing emotions and I think it is pretty clear where all this leads. That is if the rapture doesn’t get us first.

IMPORTANT: If you have not watched the videos for this experiment and/or have not yet voted for which of the five statements you believe to be the false one then please click here and do so before reading further.

Ok so once again thank you very much for taking part in this experiment, I know the videos were not the most interesting things to watch but hopefully you at least found the concept intriguing. Anyway here are the results, which you no doubt already saw when you voted. Obviously as I write this I have no idea what they show. Now I expect that all of the five statements will have similar numbers of votes for them, as we would expect if there is nothing to David Oates’ claims about Reverse Speech being used to detect lies. However it is possible that one of the statements might have considerably more votes than any of the others. If that is the case then what sort of difference should we look for that might indicate that there is something to all this after all?

Well obviously the answer to that question is going to change depending upon how many people have voted. Let’s say that 100 people have voted in the poll so far. If there is nothing to the claims regarding Reverse Speech then we should expect all five statements to have around 20 votes each, give or take a few votes. However if there is something to the claims then I would expect one of the statements to have at least 50% more votes than would be expected simply by chance. In this case that would mean one statement would have at least 30 votes while all the others have between 16-18 votes each. Now obviously the poll will give you a visual clue as to whether one of the statements has more votes than the others but to work out if the difference is something we should find interesting simply take the total number of votes, divide that number by 5 and then add half of that answer to the number you got. If the statement with the most votes has around that many votes then we might be on to something here. So, is that what the results show? See for yourself.

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Of course I have missed out one very important factor. Even if one of the statements does have considerably more votes than the others it still doesn’t show there is anything to Reverse Speech unless it is the correct statement, and by that I of course mean the false one, that has the extra votes. So which of the five statements are true and which is the entirely false one?

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Welcome to the Reverse Speech Experiment voting page. Here you can vote for which of the five statements in two experiment videos you believe is the false one. However if you haven’t seen the videos yet then some explanation as to what is going on might be in order.

Reverse Speech is the idea that when we talk normally our subconscious minds encode messages into the words we choose that can only be identified by recording what we say and playing it backwards. These backwards messages are said to contain the true meaning of what we meant as well as always speak the truth. This idea was put forward by David Oates who now runs an organisation called Reverse Speech Technologies. Now the people who have investigated his claims have, for the most part, concluded that there really is nothing to what is is saying. The words and statements that Oates claims to be hearing are easily explained by Pareidolia and Phonetic Reversal. As such, as far as I can tell, no one has every tested to see if one of the specific claims made by Oates has any merit or not, that being the claim that Reverse Speech can be used to detect lies. And that is where this experiment comes in as, with your help, I am to put this claim to the test.

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This Saturday at, I believe, 4pm in the UK will be the start of this years 24 BlogTV event to raise money for Médecins sans Frontières, that’s Doctors Without Borders for those of you who don’t speak French. Last year they raised around $33,000 for this great charity, but this year they aim is to raise a massive $75,000. If you have any spare change then please send it their way. Heck I’m a student now and even I managed to give something. They will also be having an eBay auction where you can bid on a whole host of unique items should you feel inclinded.

Donation links:

Paypal: http://www.justgiving.com/dprjones24hourblogtvforMSF

Credit Card: http://www.firstgiving.com/dprjones

The eBay auction is here: http://tiny.cc/msfcharity2010

On top of all that part of the show will be hosted by my friend AndromedasWake and he has a great line up of co-hosts to keep you entertained during the 4 hours he will be in charge of things. He made this entertaining trailer for the event, but for more details check out the details box under the video over on Youtube. Even if you don’t watch any of the show at all please consider donating something anyway. Thanks.