Thrive: What on Earth will it take?

[Freefall]

This has been getting passed around some of my friends on Facebook, and I was wondering what some of the intelligent, educated people (or just practical minded skeptical people) here thought about it. Hope I link this correctly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIJy62Vf ... ata_player

I'm about 20 mins in right now. So far it strikes me as little more than a typical appeal to emotion/ignorance designed for laypersons that comes out every so often, kind of like "What the Bleep We Know" a few years back. Already it seems to have misrepresented the photoelectric effect, evolution, and geometric shapes. Part of this is like using salesmen tactics; instead of simply referring to a torus as a very basic geometric distribution found commonly in nature (as are spherical distributions), it is this magnificent "code" of the universe that's present everywhere and in everything, and apparently the key to unlocking free vacuum energy somehow (doesn't say how, obviously).

I stopped watching around the part where he takes the I Ching and says that a series of 6 lines they use could be reconstructed as a tetrahedron, that can then form part of a pyramid of 64 tetrahedrons that then fit inside a torus, which apparently has some sort of grand cosmic significance. Or something. Honestly, it felt so contrived that I wasn't paying much attention beyond being able to tell it was contrived. Reminded me a lot of the logic used in the movie "23" with Jim Carrey, except the point of that movie is he's actually a nut job.

Anyway, I'll probably watch a bit more of this, but was wondering if anyone here had a different take on this, or feels it might have any actual merit vs. just being more of the same nonsense we've all seen before.

[Freefall]

Ugh, having watched a little more of this, I kind of want to apologize for even posting it here. I apparently stopped watching just before the part where they get to the UFOs and crop circles. That pretty much lowers my opinion of it from "almost complete and utter nonsense" to "total horse shite."

[Sriad]

Ugh, having watched a little more of this, I kind of want to apologize for even posting it here. I apparently stopped watching just before the part where they get to the UFOs and crop circles. That pretty much lowers my opinion of it from "almost complete and utter nonsense" to "total horse shite."

No, no, it sounds hilarious (if kind of sad). I'll watch it on monitor 2 sometime when I'm grinding.

[CaptainChewbacca]

It does what a lot of UFO conspiracy things do. It draws mathematical principles out of existing things, then compares them to other things. If you randomly compare something to an endless number of things, eventually you'll have correlations.

Plus, since a lot of the architecture he looks at comes from mathematically advanced civilizations, if they're finding a pattern out of numbers, those patterns are available to all civilizations.