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The JREF Million Dollar Challenge

December 1 2008 at 9:59 PM
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Would Penn and Teller ever try to beat the challenge using trickery just for fun?

Let's say they claimed they could fly and Randi devised a protocol for the test. Do they think they would be able to pass the test without Randi detecting their methods?

I believe that trickery would be the only possible way to beat the challenge and even then it'd be ridiculously hard. Randi's amazing but so are the duo so I wonder, who would win?

 
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Re: The JREF Million Dollar Challenge

December 2 2008, 3:22 PM 


Randi would win any day. He would devise a test that is "untrickable".

As good as Penn and Teller are, they are still subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

 
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Yea, that might be fun to watch.

December 3 2008, 8:09 PM 

It'd be the ultimate showdown. Reason vs. Illusion. Science vs. Sorcery.

The test could be to pull a retaining pin out of a harness hanging from a crane 100 feet up that is holding David Blain and Chris Angel bound upside down over a large tank filled with brine and Sylvia Browne.

Montel can M.C.

 
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Re: Yea, that might be fun to watch.

December 4 2008, 7:44 PM 

I don't think even David Blaine deserves such a fate.

 
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Re: The JREF Million Dollar Challenge

December 3 2008, 8:40 PM 

Good question. From what I have seen, Penn would be against it. Also- I think Penn has said that Randi is way more intelligent, and that he made P&T who they are today, that there wouldnt even be an attempt at the million bucks. Also- Also- I think Penn has even given money out of that million lol

 
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