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Post by ka9q on Jun 24, 2011 17:22:47 GMT -4
Is anybody else going to The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas next month? My wife and I are signed up.
This year it's called "TAM 9 from Outer Space".
I wonder if our friend from down under will show up again. Adam Savage is on the speaker list again.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jun 24, 2011 17:54:17 GMT -4
Ooooooo!!!! I might just go on the off chance he does. It would be well worth the journey to ask him some questions on camera, and watch him bumble and stutter his way through his attempt at answering them. I have some hard questions for him, that involve real science.
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Post by ka9q on Jun 25, 2011 2:18:06 GMT -4
Ask who? Adam Savage?
:-)
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Post by gillianren on Jun 25, 2011 2:30:54 GMT -4
If someone's willing to pay my expenses, I can go!
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Post by Data Cable on Jun 25, 2011 3:19:32 GMT -4
I may hit TAM at some point, but Labor Day weekend I'll be at my 3rd straight Dragon*Con in Atlanta, which has a rather popular Skepticism track, so it's sort of a mini-TAM, mixed in with all the other nerd-tastic goodness. Adam's a long-time D*C attendee as well, saw him at a few panels in '09... though now that I look I don't see him yet on this year's guest list.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jun 25, 2011 3:26:56 GMT -4
Very witty. Given the utter incoherent bumbling mess that our antipodean asked him last year, Adam might appreciate a question along the lines of 'whether it was possible for the caterpillar to eat all that food.' Such a line of questioning might notch it up a few levels When I think of that question by JW, I cannot help but wish I was there to shout out 'Adam, all he did was prove that 1 = 1 after failing to double 100.'
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Post by capricorn1 on Jun 25, 2011 9:23:42 GMT -4
Ooooooo!!!! I might just go on the off chance he does. It would be well worth the journey to ask him some questions on camera, and watch him bumble and stutter his way through his attempt at answering them. I have some hard questions for him, that involve real science. Shush.......he lurks around here! He won't be going if he senses an ambush
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Post by scooter on Jun 25, 2011 13:10:06 GMT -4
I wish he would make a presentation there about his conspiracy theory...you know, go through the hoops and actually get up at the podium and talk.
Now that would be entertaining to watch.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jun 25, 2011 13:48:40 GMT -4
I wish he would make a presentation there about his conspiracy theory...you know, go through the hoops and actually get up at the podium and talk. Now that would be entertaining to watch. The only presentation he'll ever give is via YouTube videos or community radio where he can control the audience. He hasn't got the bottle to do anything else. I'm still waiting for him to write up his work and have it reviewed by experts in their field. That offer has been open to him for a long time now, and really is the bare minimum expected. He does not have a lot of faith in his own work if he cannot do what ALL other practicing scientific researchers manage. His position is very weak.
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Post by photobuster919 on Jun 28, 2011 8:50:45 GMT -4
Ooooooo!!!! I might just go on the off chance he does. It would be well worth the journey to ask him some questions on camera, and watch him bumble and stutter his way through his attempt at answering them. I have some hard questions for him, that involve real science. Shush.......he lurks around here! He won't be going if he senses an ambush Considering the lengths Jarrah has gone in his so-called "search for the truth" I would not at all be surprised if he made a cameo at the TAM this year. It seems to become a stereotype that conspiracy theorists nowadays will go to such lengths to prove their (many years debunked) claims. Jarrah is the perfect example, travelling from Australia all the way to America that must be halfway across the planet. He will go wherever he can no matter how far or near if claims by experts like Plait upset him in any way (Eg Jarrah constantly brags over what Plait said about Kaysing). Phil Plait the man himself is too making an appearance this year and we all know that if Jarrah finds any statement on BadAstronomy that proves him wrong he will run to Plait and ask for an interview. It will be basically the same as last year if that happens because Plait will just turn away from Jarrah telling him the break is over. Jarrah needs to learn that these people simply don't have time to debate what they said and need to move on. Jarrah just refuses to accept when his claims have been debunked by experts in their fields, exactly the same reason he won't write up his work.
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Post by gillianren on Jun 28, 2011 13:56:19 GMT -4
They don't have time, sure--because he just isn't that important. They neither know nor care who he is, a lot of them. He's just a nuisance. It's one of the reasons I think we spend too much time talking about him, because it's obvious how much he's looking for the attention.
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Post by ka9q on Jun 29, 2011 11:43:47 GMT -4
What really seems to upset Jarrah more than anything else is toiling in obscurity while people like James Oberg, Phil Plait, Jay Windley and Adam Savage become famous for debunking Apollo conspiracies.
He seems to feel that whatever fame accrues to them is rightly his as the self-appointed "grandson of the Apollo hoax theory". And he can make it very personal.
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Post by gillianren on Jun 29, 2011 14:21:30 GMT -4
All the more reason to ignore him. We'll pay attention to him when his science is accurate.
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Post by lukepemberton on Jun 29, 2011 15:02:40 GMT -4
All the more reason to ignore him. We'll pay attention to him when his science is accurate. His science reminds me of the underpant gnomes from South Park. He never adequately convinces me that he actually has a middle stage from which to derive his conclusions. It is easy to be drawn to him like a moth to headlights though. I've fallen into that trap again. I will resist once more.
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Post by ka9q on Jun 29, 2011 17:08:10 GMT -4
Moth to headlights? More like rubberneckers at a big train wreck. I admit it, it's hard to resist.
I do regularly tell my wife that we need a visit from the underwear fairy whenever the supplies are getting low. And they do seem to visit, though I never see them.
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