Just in time for Halloween and from the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department we have this tale of hilarity. Rob Gutro is a Deputy News Chief in the office of Public Affairs at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. He writes a number of science stories, like this one on hurricanes or this one on the Gulf Oil spill. But, he also talks to ghosts. I’d like to ask him to ask the dead these questions: “Is climate change dead too? Is heaven green? Does hell use a coal powered furnace or is it nuclear or solar driven?” Inquiring minds want to know.
NASA worker brings a scientific eye to his hobby: Talking to the dead
Medium and NASA Meteorologist Rob Gutro tries to communicate with a possible ghost beneath a bookstore in Baltimore.» LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER
By J. Freedom duLac Washington Post Staff Writer
Rob Gutro was driving to the wake of a co-worker’s stepfather when a ghost began to speak.
“I kept hearing the name Cindy Lou,” Gutro recalled. “I had no idea what that meant.” But he knew this: Once again, somebody who’d died had something to say.
By day, Gutro is a meteorologist who works as deputy news chief at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, communicating the nation’s scientific work to the public.
By night (and whenever else the entities get in touch), he talks to the dead.
“I have an ability to communicate with and understand ghosts and spirits,” Gutro said.
During his off-hours, away from NASA’s advanced technology, Gutro actively seeks encounters of another kind by traveling to haunted houses and other historic sites where spirits might be found.
Sometimes, he said, entities seek him out. So it was, on the way to the wake this summer, that the disembodied voice in the car asked Gutro to deliver messages to his grieving friend and NASA colleague, Cynthia O’Carroll.
Gutro obliged, pulling her aside at the ceremony and saying he’d been hearing the name Cindy Lou. “I believe your dad has come to me,” he told O’Carroll.
She cried.
“My dad used to call me Cindy Lou,” O’Carroll said later. “But the thing that really touched me and made me cry was when Rob said, ‘Your dad said thank you for taking care of your mom.’ Just the way he said it sounded like the way Dad would have said it.”
Gutro is quick to acknowledge that some NASA scientists – and plenty of non-scientists too – approach his work with considerable skepticism. “Some people do think that mediums are crazy,” Gutro said. He shrugged.
There’s no scientific consensus on ghosts and spirits; the word paranormal, after all, means something beyond scientific explanation. But Gutro, who used to work as a forecaster for the Weather Channel’s radio division, insisted that the science behind his experiences with entities is sound.
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Maybe someone could script a new story for Christmas. “Climate Christmas Carol’, complete with George Monbiot as Scrooge, Michael Mann as Marley’s ghost – dragging iron hockey sticks bound together with barbed wire. The ghosts of Climate past, Climate present and climate future. The gentlemen asking Monbiot for a little coal or oil for the poor in Africa; “Are there no wind turbines? Are there no solar panels?” says Scrooge.
The ghost of Climate past shows him the joyful Medieveal Warm Period (Mr Perriwig’s ball?), Climate present, showing Africans having look for firewood and carry water for miles… with pensioners in the West shivering from cold and fear of their fuel bills. Then ghost of Climate future… as snow and ice builds up and scenes of wind turbines crashing to the ground and millions starving and millions more dead…
Then maybe repentance “need these things be?” says Monbiot…
Oh, sorry, I got quite carried away.
That’s precisely the consequence of believing in a kind of distorted “science” which postulates dis incarnate entities like Black Holes, Dark Matter, multi dimensional universes.
Seriously, this is the deepest pit occidental culture has lowered since the times of Pythagoras. Long ago forgotten the simple formulas that explained the laws governing the universe, known by the old and transmitted to us through the “Symbols of the sacred science” (A Book written by the French mathematician Rene Guenon).
The error began when the Church, as nowadays do the GWrs., proclaimed that they were the only ones who could show us the truth, thus they concocted a group of Dogmas, which people were supposed to believe in and which had no reasonable explanation possible. Thus it was proclaimed the supposed truthful concept of immateriality, an obvious crazy and irrational concept. Men, until then, knew that the Universe was absolutely material, as we know now, with, of course degrees of materiality in it, what we call Frequency: The higher the frequency, the shorter its wave length, the higher its energy.
This clearly shows that a man like Max Plank envisioned and showed a general and simple equation for interpreting material reality; which was, afterwards, distorted to the phantoms and “beyond the grave” physics of today’s post-normal “scientists” . No one knows anything but Ouija like Models gaming or Vodoo sciences.
All that came from the politically convenient notion of Agnosticism: The Church decreed the impossibility of knowing reality: They implanted the false notion of a supposed extreme complication of the laws governing the universe: They were the chosen ones to teach us and tell us what to do and how to live (paying “alms” of course).
Now there is a pseudo church of the “Settled Science”, which revealed its internal delicacies in the recent “Climate Gate”.
We are living in times of change, or renewal, let’s not be convinced again by who preach sophisms and lies with a similar purpose than those who blinded the eyes of generations
Looks like its going to be our turn again LOL
http://processtrends.com/images/RClimate_UAH_Ch5_latest.png
from a warmista site too!
You cannot have a conversation with the afterlife if you are still in this life (living), and you cannot spend time with someone who doesn’t have any. There is a reason for the saying : Dead to the World.
There is no time beyond that alloted, thus there are but 2 concepts linking: faith & hope.
Whomever the NASA met. is talking to, it’s not Cindy Lou.
“I have an ability to communicate with and understand ghosts and spirits,” Gutro said.
Yet another sad victim of Post Normal Science’s “teleconnection” principle?
“James Goneaux says:
October 28, 2010 at 1:06 pm
We may have to file his one under “smart people can sometimes believe dumb stuff”: my best math teacher was a Velikovsky True Believer…”
Before slaying Velikovski completely, please check Luis Alverez and Dinasour Extinction…
I’d love to hear the takes of Newton, Einstein, etc, on the ideas behind anthropogenic climate change. Let’s hope this guy can locate them.
“But Gutro, who used to work as a forecaster for the Weather Channel’s radio division, insisted that the science behind his experiences with entities is sound.”
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This must be a misquote, I see the word “science” mentioned.
OK, enough of the “snitty” comments.
I watched his video made at the Baltimore bookstore. I’ve been exposed to a lot of these claims before. And I don’t really have a “dog in the fight”.
What disturbed me INTENSELY about the interview with Gutro is that he confused (clearly) sound intensity (decibels) with frequency. He says the spirits create sounds at a “higher decibel level”..and illustrates noting that DOGS can hear that. He makes the error not once, but about 4 times.
Now is he THAT poor technically? Did nervousness cause a “Freaudian Substitution” (identified by Freude over 100 years ago..your mind throws in a “placeholder” in your conversation if you loose the word you should use..)
Or is he really THAT CONFUSED that he doesn’t know the difference between INTENSITY and FREQUENCY.
If the former is true, we’ll cut him some slack.
If the latter, then “Houston, we have a problem..”
I smell a movie in the making. It will involve three ghosts visiting Rob Gutro on the eve of Earthday. The last one, the ghost of Earthday yet to come, is the scariest. It shows Rob how the future will turn into a living hell for millions of people unless the world reduces its carbon footprint to near zero and turns the present into a living hell for billions of people.
Rob’s future ghost told me that they are currently trying to decide between two names: “The Day After the Day After Tomorrow” or “The Grinch Who Stole Earthday”. His ghost wouldn’t reveal which movie title they would ultimately choose, but he hinted that the second one would allow them to include a character named Cindy Lou who would entice more children to see the movie. That’s a big plus when you’re making a propaganda film you want to have shown at schools.
Hmmm, isn’t a necromancer worse than a creationist?
What is NASA up to these days?
Anyone who’s seen the Grinch that Stole Christmas knows who Cindy Lou Who is. And Horton heard the Whos long before Robert Gutro did. There is no mystery here.
Being a medium is probably a good thing if you’ve been an extra large most of your life .
People have been programmed to believe in the metaphysical since the dawn of man. This internal programming started when we developed the ability to have abstract thought, and is an inevitable, irrational side-effect of this useful ability to do ‘what ifs’.
No surprise that some people believe in an all powerful intangible god or abstract theories to explain the universe. Others believe in luck or are superstitious and would never dream of buying a house numbered 13. It would seem that deep down we all have some strange, unfalsifiable belief(s)!
So lets not knock Rob Gutro and his irrational belief he can talk to ghosts. At least it is mostly harmless, which is more than can be said about those who believe in the conjecture of CAGW. Illusion really is our personal reality.
Hansesn’s delusional and he doesn’t write about Ghosts….
The body snatchers invaded NASA.
Send the entire staff to Mars.
And please, don’t forget to take Hanson
Do it for your children and your grand children.
Hansen, dang it..
And what science do you have to back up this assertion? Your statement is purely faith-based itself. Faith in a naturalistic explanation for the universe and human beings.
It wasn’t “Cindi Lou” that Gutro was hearing, it was “Peggy Sue”. He had the volume on his car radio turned down too low. I have made the same mistake myself (but did not decide that ghosts were talking to me). Go figure.
P Walker says:
October 28, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Being a medium is probably a good thing if you’ve been an extra large most of your life .>>
Cough, snort, hack, coffee up through nose, thanks buddy.
Of course it does strike me that it depends on your reference point. If I open up my spam folder, it is chalk full of offers to make that which is medium, large…
James Goneaux says:
October 28, 2010 at 1:06 pm
We may have to file his one under “smart people can sometimes believe dumb stuff”: my best math teacher was a Velikovsky True Believer…
I have never ever met someone I considered to be smart and then later discovered that that person believed dumb stuff. It’s just never happened.
And as someone said previously, believing in ghosts etc. is exactly as dumb as any of the more, let’s say, socially accepted beliefs.
I worked with a corporate MD who also believed in UFOs. His science was really crummy, also.
pax says:
October 28, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Well, I knew a guy in grad school. Really, really smart guy.
Turned out he was a Cubs fan…
R. de Haan says:
October 28, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Don’t laugh, but the Pentagon is looking for private enterprise to fund sending a Colony to Mars, on a 1-way trip.
The idea is a ‘just in case’ Earth gets whacked by a big object and turns into a ball of lava.
[cut … – Yes, it is off-topic. Robt]