"Good... Morning...SAA"

wrote

I've never left, always been here. I just don't post 'cause there
isn't much for me to post about. I'm not so much an amateur astronomer
as I am amateur telescope maker, and SAA does not offer anything for
that part of the hobby.

I know, but your expertise in optics, at least, helped us with the myriad
questions we'd had. Unfortunately, those kinds of questions haven't been
raised here in a LONG time.

Howard

On Aug 27, 11:33 pm, Edward Erbeck wrote:

Good to see you back again Roland. Anyone that thinks GTO should be a
1200 or a '64 is OK in my Book! ;-).
But I do agree with you that it seems few are "rolling their own" even
to the degree I did where I ground my mirrors with a Check and made Lots of
Saw Dust.

Crazy Ed

Back when I started making mirrors and lenses I did a lot of things by
hand and always lusted after equipment that was way too expensive. I
never had any good equipment until I left my engineering job to do
this full time. Now I have all kinds of cool equipment, but no time
for any of the fun projects I used to do.

Rolando

On 27 Aug, 23:55, wrote:
Good morning to y'all. Nice to see some real action again on this
group. I get my daily chuckles here from the couple of knuckleheads
that seem to be attracted to this group like pesky hornets are to
honey (Min, Oriel, Conrad - I suspect they are all the same person).
Been reading SAA for years, but never had the occasion to post any
more except now to say hello and that I'm still here reading your
posts. Keep up the good work defending the territory. Y'all are doing
a great job keeping this newsgroup alive. Bye and good luck (and keep
posting!!)

Rolando

Yeah,keep up the good work of defending the astrological territory.

Let's see if you will dare promote the idea that the Earth rotates
through 360 degrees in 23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds -

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JennyChen.shtml

Kids who are going back to school this week should learn how the 24
hour day is created from the noon cycles and from there how it is
applied to the axial cycle as a 24 hour/360 degree correlation.

Somehow you do not believe the fact that one 24 cycle elapsing into
the next 24 hour cycle is a brilliant human creation and certainly not
a natural occurence.You believe that the noon cycle is 24 hours
exactly in order to explain the 23 hour 56 minute 04 second value
using the motions of the Earth -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_time

If the principles which keep 24 hour clocks fixed to the daily noon
cycle were not enjoyable and easy to understand I would not promote
them but for some shocking reason nobody wishes to touch them,even
when the words are coming from a renowned astronomer like Huygens -

http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html

Maybe next year good kids will stand a chance to bypass astrologers
who cannot grasp the great achievement of the 24 hour cycle and how it
transfers to the axial cycle as a correlation based on 4 minutes of
clock time for each degree of geographical seperation making 24 hours/
360 degrees in total.Until then there are only astrologers with
telescopes.

" wrote:
Well in small part

Now I have all kinds of cool equipment, but no time for any of the fun
projects I used to do.


That's kind of like when I had my own business. Seems my Boss kept me
busy ;-)

Crazy Ed

In article .com,
wrote:

Good morning to y'all. Nice to see some real action again on this
group. I get my daily chuckles here from the couple of knuckleheads
that seem to be attracted to this group like pesky hornets are to
honey (Min, Oriel, Conrad - I suspect they are all the same person).

Extremely unlikely, considering the consistently great dissimilarities
among them: their target NGs (and the number thereof), their posting
styles, and their pet issues all differ -- it's just that some of them
intersect here.

I've seen few of their postings myself for a long time, but
unfortunately others often reply to them, sometimes quoting extensively.
Oriel is pretty much a monomaniac; he posts here more than anywhere
else, and rarely cross-posts or starts threads. Ed Conrad is less of a
one-trick pony, having added all manner of conspiracy theories to his
Old as Coal shtick, and he spams all over the place (not very often
here). Min rarely posts to fewer than three groups at a time, usually
including a few to do with prophecy, divination &c.; he morphs
constantly, uses anonymous remailers, includes a PGP signature, and
usually justifies his text.

Those are just a few of their most obvious respective traits that come
to mind ...

--
Odysseus