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Post by theteacher on Jul 6, 2011 18:57:40 GMT -4
I've probably mentioned this book before, but Robert Park (of the American Physical Society) wrote a book about fraudulent science and technology: "Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud". I actually bought and read the book on your endorsement, and it is a brilliant book, one of the best I have read on the subject. I can highly recommend it.
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Post by ka9q on Jul 7, 2011 7:01:59 GMT -4
Glad you liked it!
I think I've bought two copies so far, and I'm not even sure where they are. I know I gave at least one of them away, to a local newspaper reporter who covers technology. I figured it was a good investment.
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Post by chrlz on Jul 8, 2011 8:04:08 GMT -4
That would the same Robert Park who authored the very cool quote I use in my signature elsewhere: "To wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right."
Must get a look at that book...
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Post by ka9q on Jul 9, 2011 3:20:02 GMT -4
So I'm not sure if I ever got any positive responses to my original question on this thread...anybody else going to TAM9? If so, let's hook up. Send me a PM.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jul 9, 2011 4:47:27 GMT -4
So I'm not sure if I ever got any positive responses to my original question on this thread...anybody else going to TAM9? If so, let's hook up. Send me a PM. As much as I would like to go, I won't be going. I'd love to hook up with people from this board, but I simply cannot afford it this year (from a non-financial perspective). I just cannot take the time.
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Post by ka9q on Jul 9, 2011 4:53:28 GMT -4
Oh well, maybe next time.
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Post by gillianren on Jul 9, 2011 13:03:23 GMT -4
But if anyone's going to be in Washington State next month, I know of a lovely Renaissance faire . . . .
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Post by lukepemberton on Jul 9, 2011 13:57:35 GMT -4
But if anyone's going to be in Washington State next month, I know of a lovely Renaissance faire . . . . Can't do that either Washington State eh? I spent a week in Washington State: 5 days in Seattle and then on to Mount Rainier for some walking. Stunning countryside. Headed on to Yellowstone for 4 days after Rainier, then down to the Grand Tetons, into Nevada and on to Yosemite, before a week in San Francisco. It was two weeks camping after leaving Seattle. There were some big travelling days. For instance, Rainier to Yellowstone was two days of travelling. A huge drive after leaving Rainier, and then we struck for Yellowstone for lunch the next day.
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Post by gillianren on Jul 9, 2011 14:00:57 GMT -4
I love living here. I wish I could afford to travel more, but if I were to be stuck, essentially, anywhere, Olympia's the place for me.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jul 9, 2011 14:13:33 GMT -4
I love living here. I wish I could afford to travel more, but if I were to be stuck, essentially, anywhere, Olympia's the place for me. I wish I could afford to travel more too My US trip was a one off. I'd love to spend a year or two in the US, travelling around. I've been back with work, but that's not the same. It really gets my goat when people in this country say that only 20% of people in the US have a passport, and declare that Americans don't know what goes on beyond their own borders. I will then ask if they've ever been to the States. The answer is usually no. I then explain when one has such a diverse country at their doorstep, there is no real need to travel far. You can see mountains, deserts, swamps, grasslands, lakes, glaciers, giant forests, geotherms. You have the beauty of New England, the Pacific Coast, Canada to the north, Mexcio to the south. Even writing about it just makes me yearn to go back and spend time. I had a great time, and the people made me so welcome. Americans get such a bad press, but looking at the reasons for that, I think muc of it is purely out of jealousy for the country's achievements. That's why we have this forum. I think many Apollo hoax believers are simply anti-American. They ought to go and spend a little time there before they take that view, and certainly spend time working with Americans.
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Post by gillianren on Jul 9, 2011 14:36:18 GMT -4
Hey, I would love to travel outside our borders; the farthest I've gone is Victoria, which is less than twenty miles from where I was living at the time. But I grew up in an extremely different climate than I live in now, and I only crossed two state lines in the process. (California, as you know, is a very long state.) I do think we need to know more of what goes on outside our borders, but it doesn't follow that we need to leave our country in order to do it.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jul 9, 2011 15:08:49 GMT -4
I do think we need to know more of what goes on outside our borders, but it doesn't follow that we need to leave our country in order to do it. With the internet and the multi-cultural societies we live in, there is not much need to travel beyond our borders to understand other peoples and their ways of life. It's just nice when we get the chance to travel. I've only been interested in the Apollo programme for 3 years now, and reading posts here has really got me thinking at many levels. It's also brought about a change in my life, and that new chapter opens very soon with a career change. I've been going into schools for 3 years talking about space and the Apollo programme, and I've really enjoyed it. As a result. I'm about to change job, moving from RandD, and into education. I've probably not seen much of Britain, believe it or not. When I do travel, around the UK, I forget just how stunning this little island nation is.
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Post by ka9q on Jul 9, 2011 23:42:53 GMT -4
It really gets my goat when people in this country say that only 20% of people in the US have a passport, and declare that Americans don't know what goes on beyond their own borders. Speaking as a native-born American, there is truth behind that complaint. That some Brits might have the same problem doesn't make it any less true.
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Post by photobuster919 on Jul 13, 2011 11:48:40 GMT -4
Meeting is tomorrow.
Good luck to all of you who are attending.
Unfortunately I can't go but I'm sure it will be good.
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