It has recently been revealed that the UK Ministry of Defence, presumably having far too much of our tax money spare to know what to do with, despite an illegal war here and there, started researching into psychic powers as weapons. And where better to source your psychic soldiers from than....the Internet. Yes indeed, apparently the MoD attempted to recruit 12 psychics that had no further qualification that advertising their services on the Internet. Nice work if you can get it.

What is perhaps even more surprising is that all 12 turned them down. So, never being the type to quit whilst you're either ahead or behind, the MoD went around and picked "novice" volunteers - one assumes therefore that these are people who can't even be bothered to claim they have psychic powers.

They then spent £18,000 employing commercial researchers to do a classic test of psychicness - guessing what picture is hidden inside a sealed envelope. Whilst apparently 28% of the tested group weren't too far off the mark with regards to the contents, most were way out. It was such a stimulating experiment that one wannabe-psychic even fell asleep during the process.

Their conclusion? "The study concluded that remote viewing theories had little value to the MoD."