Danie Krügel is at it again, this time in the Joshlin Smith disappearance case.
His magic hair-locating box features strongly, as does his turbo-charged humility. He was sent some rubber bands with Joshlin’s hair on them, and ran his hocus-pocus from Bloemfontein, identifying a “precise location” somewhere in Saldanha Bay.
We won’t harp on the fact that from Bloemfontein, the whole of Saldanha Bay subtends an angle of about 15 minutes of arc, and pinpointing a bearing that accurately from nearly 900 km away takes some doing.
'Luthon64
It’s because the DNA location box is magical. It operates unhindered by any of those pesky physical constraints which typically encumbers the more pedestrian instruments.
He just looked at the needle REALLLLLLY closely, closed one eye and squinted to get it really nailed down.
As complete aside: This discussion got me thinking about Voyager 1, which was recently in the news when it’s on-board computer developed memory corruptions and NASA struggled to re-establish communication with it… Until they finally were able to patch the software with some very impressive software hijinks (IMHO) and re-establish working order, now avoiding the bad memory locations. 50+ year old computer lives to fly another billion miles…
Anyway, during this I briefly wondered how they get Voyager’s antenna pointed at earth when it must now be a very, very tiny target. That’s until I realized, and calculated, that earth’s entire orbit is now a mere ~0.7deg for the probe, and surely the beam voyager emits must spread to cover (much more than) the entire orbit. Wikipedia confirmed that of late the probe simply just aims for the sun, and that’s good enough.
Interesting comparison. Still, the technology of monitoring Voyager 1’s signals has at least two major advantages over Danie Krügel’s magic box. First, the type of signal and the location in space of its origin are both well known. Second, there is a large array of sensitive collectors (dishes), plus monster signal isolation / amplification gear for separating the signal from the background noise, a signal that’s embedded in an error-correction code.
And since this is a thread about Danie Krügel’s supposed capabilities, it’s also worth pointing out that his “technology” is a bit thin on the above criteria—thin to the point of emaciation. 
'Luthon64
I don’t think I endeavored (pun intended) to make any comparison to Krugel’s stuff. I was just pointing out a musing I had about Voyager. Personally I think Krugel’s “technology” rises (or sinks?) to the level of non-existence.
Sorry, my bad. I didn’t mean to suggest that you were actually making a comparison; I just thought that your musings on Voyager would make for an interesting comparison in light of what was said before, and so I went on to note the technological differences.
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