Re: GOD=G_uv HAMMOND NOBEL SPEECH

From: David Evens (devens_at_technologist.com)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 03:16:52 -0400

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 22:09:14 -0400, TMG <TMG@Nowhere.org> wrote:
>David Evens wrote:
>> On 23 Jul 2004 19:29:24 GMT, danfoxart@NOSPAMyahoo.com(Dan Fox) wrote:
>>
>>>As a graduate physicist myself (M.S., WVU, 1971), I've looked over the
>>>Hammond stuff and have a question: why do real physicists here bother with
>>>this guy at all? He is clearly insane; his ideas aren't even bad science -
>>>they are gibberish.
>>
>> Well, he's sane enough that they let him roam the streets .
>
>Well, the Commonwealth DOES lock him up now and then. Even George admits
> to taking a bit of a rest as a guest of our mental health system.

Although he insists that he obtains it by fraud.

>> He's also very, very funny to humiliate,
>> although it tends to wear thin.
>
>True, but then he finds some new way to piss everyone off!

This only leads to new ways to humiliate him.

>> In any event, nobody posts here for work purposes, it's strictly
>> recreational. Showing people a newly observered knot that George has
>> tied himself into without noticing is amusing.
>
>Hammond has an unusually wide blind spot. Even for a drooling crank,
>he's totally wacked. Very much more than Archimedes Plutonium.

Ah, Archy, from the Middle Days. (I'm not QUITE old enough to recall
the Old Days, only having been flitting about the 'net for about 10
years).

>>>Here's one for you: when I was a freshman I found a little book in the
>>>library by one Arthur Otis, PhD. It was a nonsensical refutation of general
>>>relativity (Otis was dead serious). I actually found it on the web - if
>>>you're interested in a taste go to
>>>http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=61647071
>>
>>
>> Reminds me of a video I saw once, in which a former geologist whose
>> brain appeared to have gone soft went on about how this 300 foot high
>> sheer limestone cliff was cut through lime mud by a river...
>>
>>
>>>By the way, I looked at George Hammond's picture at his site. He looks so
>>>... normal. Of course, so did Jeffrey Daumer.
>>
>>
>> The picture Potty put on his site looks normal, too, except that
>> there's no reason to ssuppose either picture is of the person it is
>> claimed to be.
>
>Actually - that's a reasonably accurate pic of George - it's a few years
>old, and it lacks the cartoon stink-lines denoting his filthy homeless
>status - but last I saw the great thinker, it was close.

I know he wasn't actually homeless when he first showed up here. He
had cable modem service at the time, and you have to have a home to
get cable.