Posts Made By: K. Michael Malolepszy

I used to live in NM and you do NOT want to go there from JUly through October - it's the "monsoon" season there. We used to get clouds and some rain in higher altitudes every day, the place turned into a mudbath.

K. Michael M.

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Planning for astro vacation
Posted by John on 9/11/2002 4:57:26 AM

I was looking at the New Mexico Skies website and thought this would be the perfect vacation, if planned well. Aside from the merely obvious, like not going during a near to full moon, can anyone suggest a good time of year if your purpose was to use their equipment to get some nice & varied astrophotos?

/John

You can also pose these questions for the hoax believers...

Do you know how many times we landed on the moon? Six.
Why would we fake a moon landing SIX TIMES? (The more
people who know about a
secret, the harder it is to keep.)

Hoax Believers must believe the entire history of the
20th century must be a hoax - the whole point of
Apollo was to show up the russians. So why didn't the
russians blow the whistle?

A hoax this size would require thousands of people's
involvment. Hundreds of thoudands of people were
directly involved with Apollo. Yet none of them have
talked yet. HBs would have you believe the gummint can
keep this big a secret while not being able to cover
up sex acts in the White House.

HBs would also have you believe that the technology
existed in 1969 to fake the thousands of photos, films
hundreds of hours of low and xero gravity video. What
did they use to fake all this? A PC with Photoshop in
1969??!?!?

HBs would also have you believe that all the amateur
ham radio enthusiasts that were listening in with
their own equipment are either part of the hoax or
fooled.

HBs would also have you believe that all the amateur
astronomers that were optically tracking the missions
with their own telescopes as part of SAO's Moonwatch
program were either part of the hoax or fooled.

HBs also have to believe that EVERY planetary
scientist & geochemist is on this hoax or too stupid
to tell that the more than 800 lbs. of moon rock are
fake, even after 30 years of examing them with ever
more sophisticated methods of analysis.

some NDE web sites:

http://www.mindspring.com/~scottr/nde/_skeptic.html

This is a good summary of the skeptical view of NDEs:

http://skepdic.com/nde.html

Folks interested in a history of the idea of "Nothingness" and it's relationship to cosmology might also want to check out

The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe
by John D Barrow
Vintage, London, 2001
ISBN 0-099-28845-1

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375420991/103-6853293-1526258?vi=glance

or

Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space
by Henning Genz, Karin Heusch (Translator), Translated by Karin Heusch
ISBN: 0738206105

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738206105/qid=1043623441/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6853293-1526258?v=glance&s=books

How do you like that Sirius Optics variable filter? I see that listed as some of the equipment you used for your Jupiter observations.

K. Michael M.

http://www.spaceref.com/redirect.html?id=0&url=spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/groundtracs/index.html

Herb,

Which forums in particular? KMM

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Posted by Administrator on 2/7/2003 8:14:17 PM

Thursday the FORUMS were viewed by over 9000 users.

Not bad folks.

AstroMart

Yeah, nice to have a bit of good news for a change.

One thing I noticed about this Khalid Shaikh Mohammed guy (see
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/01/pakistan.arrests/index.html )

is that it looks like he might be related to this guy:

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/sfpage.html

Coincidence? I think not!!!!

Public star parties and school star parties are something our club does a lot of. It is always really neat to see the reaction of a kid who sees saturn or the moon through a decent telescope for the first time. It is also an experience that may play a role in encouraging that child to study science, perhaps changing his or her life. I also think it's important to show kids that there's more to life than just Gameboys, pro wrestling and bad movies.

K. Michael M.

Info about the faked photos of "Columbia" breaking up at

http://www.snopes.com/photos/shuttle2.asp

Get the real poop on it at the STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ that can be found at the following URLs

Text-Only Version:
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html

Enhanced HTML Version:
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html