Re: OT Mushroom cloud in N. Korea

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:48:14 +0000 (UTC)

Christian Ramos (cramos49@yahoo.co.nz) wrote:

: "Eric Chomko" <echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu> wrote in message
: news:cihhns$brg$1@news.ums.edu...
: > Christian Ramos (cramos49@yahoo.co.nz) wrote:
: >
: > : "Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message
: > : news:41747466.207422828@news.west.earthlink.net...
: > : > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:17:26 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Christian
: > : > Ramos" <cramos49@yahoo.co.nz> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
: > : > such a way as to indicate that:
: > : >
: > : > >> >> One can request all one wants, but the South Koreans are in a
: very
: > : > >> >> pacifist and appeasing mood these days.
: > : > >> >
: > : > >> >Wot a bunch of crap. Spoken like a someone that's never left his
: own
: > : > >> >country.
: > : > >>
: > : > >> Spoken like someone who has.
: > : > >
: > : > >Argh so I was right...
: > : >
: > : > No, you were (apparently, as usual) clueless.
: >
: > : Followed by personel abuse. Guess I won that argument.
: >
: > : By the way am still waiting for you to provide a reference to any
: analysis
: > : or study that backs up your claims on Space Tourism.
: >
: > Good luck getting the latter! Surely by now you get that he makes it up as
: > he's going along?
: >

: Actually I didnt. I thought if he claimed to have been a space tourism
: expert he would have at least read some of the studies or analyses or at
: least followed the time honoured method of providing some kind of
: references. I went back over the last year and he has never supplied any
: references despite demands and again most of his opinions fly in the face of
: the existing studies and analyses.

He claims to have a technical BS degree in aerospace engineering and a
technical MS degree in engineering management. Could you imagine having to
actually work for the guy?!

: What was interesting, is that he frequently asks people to give references
: and when they do he attacks them personally but never the references
: supplied. In fact, the majority of his posts are nothing but personal abuse,
: I cant find anything that he's ever made a positive contribution to.

Yes, one wonders who takes him seriously.

: The mystery however, is he appears to have the support of some of the more
: experienced posters in the moderated groups. He writes like a government
: contractor, so I can only assume they support him in order to use him at
: getting to the taxpayer trough.

Yet, he is quick to badmouth NASA and tout the commercial side of space
travel as if it must be an either/or situation.

: The one thing I do know, is that he has absolutly no knowledge of any of the
: existing Tourism plans or studies and makes it up as he goes.

Yes, he is a legend in his own mind.

Eric