Re: How about a new newsgroup?

I assure you that I was well aware of what I was letting myself in for
by posting to these groups and know only too well the loss of dignity
in these matters,not just personally but for the entire astronomical
discipline.You inhabit a tiny facet of astronomy that sprung up with
the emergence of telescopes,the major body of work stretching from
Roemer right back to remote antiquity did not involve magnification but
rather intuitive intelligence that produced the heliocentric system,its
refinements and the clock system ..

For the first time,men have the chance to appreciate the two step
process which refers the 24 hour day to rotation at 15 degrees per hour
using the noon Equation of Time correction,a concept so simple and so
pragmatic that to argue these principles for 4 years to creatures who
justify the return of a star to a meridian by the axial and orbital
motions of the Earth is almost unthinkable.

You insist in justifying your celestial sphere geometry even though it
is impossible, for the Ra/Dec is just an observational convenience and
to know the difference is to be an astronomer.You do not want to do
that,you want your celestial sphere outlook to mesmerise people with
multiple universe,warped space,dark matter and everything observational
astronomy should be fighting against for truly no person can look into
the celestial arena and dump these things into it.

All that leaves are people interested in magnification alone and if
that is an astronomer then call the newsgroup whatever you like.









Chris L Peterson wrote:
On 12 Sep 2006 08:59:55 -0700, "Richard Adams" <ackthpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The alternative is to convert s.a.a. to a moderated group. At this
stage it's worth at least a discussion. Min and whatever loonies who
feel it's their duty to leave their mental defecations all over the net
would be defeated, but it would certainly introduce a minor delay in
seeing new postings.

Moderated newsgroups don't work unless they are small and specialized.
Why worry about a handful of cranks (and it really is only a handful)?
Either read their posts for a laugh, or ignore them. The bandwidth is
trivial, and it shouldn't impact topical posting much at all. Gerald is
pretty much the only one who throws his crap into the middle of
otherwise reasonable posts, and he is very easy to killfile since he
doesn't morph.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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