John Ratcliff's Weblog

(Dr. Steven Greer driving his new $120k Stan Meyer water fueled dune buggy.) Dr. Steven Greer provides the kind of comic relief that modern society demands. Just this past week our favorite alien space brother spent about $120k to purchase Stan Meyer 's water fueled Dune Buggy (which hasn't run for over a decade) as well as various and sundry pieces of junk. Stan Meyer was that mythical inventor who claimed to have created a car which runs on water. He modified a dune buggy and claimed he ran it on nothing but water, wishes, and fairy tales. He got a fair amount of media coverage before he was sued by his investors, ruled a fraud by the courts, and died at an early age. Of course cars don't run on water but they can be modified to run on hydroxy gas. Meyer accomplished no great miracle by running his dune buggy on hydroxy gas, the real point of contention is whether or not he was running it as an over-unity device; meaning was he getting more energy out than he was ex...

I made a decision last night that I am going to sell my 16mm film collection. I have enjoyed it immensely over the years and it has been great fun to host many showings. However, today I realized that it is more important that my family be able to enjoy a nice vacation than for me to have a bunch of films in storage. It took me many years, and many thousands of dollars, to accumulate this fine collection. Over the holidays I plan to start selling them on Ebay or to any private parties who are interested. The image above shows most of my feature films, but I have a few others that aren't on that list. My feature films include: "101 Dalmations", near mint LPP "Lady and the Tramp", near mint LPP with captions "Secret of Nimh", LPP but with heavy wear. "Pinocchio", LPP near mint "The Little Mermaid", LPP near mint "The Last Starfighter", LPP near mint "The Court Jester", Technicolor, breathtaking color, some spl...