Introduce Yourself...Redux

[Ranb]

Retired Sailor, currently a radiological control technician at the Puget Shipyard in western WA.  I first got wind of the old Apollo Hoax forum after some guy at work was passing around a list of reasons why the Apollo moon landings were fake.  I was able to refute some of them off the top of my head but searched and found Clavius when looking for more info.  I have learned more from JREF and this website than any other.

In my spare time I enjoy shooting, gun smithing and bikes.

Ranb

[ChrLz]

Retired Sailor, currently a radiological control technician at the Puget Shipyard in western WA.  I first got wind of the old Apollo Hoax forum after some guy at work was passing around a list of reasons why the Apollo moon landings were fake...
Ranb

Welcome, RanB.   Why not invite 'guy at work' to join the forum and put his claims here?  Although, after reading Clavius and/or simply taking a look around here and on other forums, he may wish to simply become educated..

[Echnaton]

Hello, new member here.

Welcome to the forum Allan.  I have spent a few short but really nice weekends in Copenhagen.  One memorable evening included one of the best bluegrass bands I've seen. 

[armillary]

ReHi - I used to lurk on this forum as AstroSmurf (before the move), and now I lurk with a different nickname.

I'm originally from Sweden, now living in London. Doing software contracting, and that has kept me too busy to finish my MSc although I'm closing in on it now. Occasionally playing with astrophysics in my spare time - I was involved with an open-source space exploration game which never took off, and I also spend time with Orbiter, Celestia and a 6" Vixen Schmidt-Cassegrain (although light pollution here leaves much to be desired).

I've pretty much always enjoyed reading about manned space exploration. I first visited the Air & Space museum when I was five, and went back there a few years ago, still finding it interesting. If my other half permitted I would have the hallway decorated with blueprints, but she has Opinions on that

I found the AH forum via the old BA forum, before it added UT, CQ etc ... still have an account I think, but mostly ignoring it these days. Life keeps me pretty busy, and the HBs are rarely interesting enough to get me to respond, but I still keep learning new things from other posters. This forum also has a better signal-to-noise ratio than most, so well done to LunarOrbit for keeping it on-topic and interesting.

[geo7863]

Hello all and thanks to LunarOrbit for sorting out my joining the forum. My name is George and I am principally here because of the Conspiracy Theories about the Apollo programme and the Moon Landings! I am not an Apollo Believer, there is nothing to believe! I am an 'Apollo knower'...I KNOW it happened, its a fact, it was real... get over it!

How do I know it happened? because I am a reasonably educated man, with a reasonable general knowledge and a reasonable amount of common sense...sure I don't KNOW all the physics, all the Engineering and as for the mathematics of it all....fuggedaboutit! But ALL the evidence is there for me to not have any other opinion than to Know!

I 'lost' someone who I considered my 'best friend'  a couple of years ago because one day he saw the Sibrel film and was convinced there was one huge conspiracy. I didn't know much about the 'counter theories' against CT's but I had read up on a few things...flapping flags.....the letter 'C' on THE rock, the Van Allen Belt etc. and when I told him about the truth of these he listened with an incredibly insulting smirk on his face...like someone who is listening to a child who is telling an obvious whopper of a lie. Not only did I have the incredible urge to punch him in the face, and I am glad that I am not a lesser man who may well have done (besides I am a lover not a fighter  ) It suddenly leapt into my mind that this reasonably intelligent well travelled man is actually a blithering idiot! I haven't really spoken with him since!

I probably wont be posting much here, because I do not suffer fools gladly. I am extremely intolerant of those whom I consider to be morons and any civility that I may be able to show would rapidly wear thin and I know that that would be against the spirit of this forum. Please allow me to post the odd item which I think may be of help to blow idiocy into the weeds.. and if I am wrong please feel free to let me know.

have a good 'un one and all 

[Kiwi]

I am extremely intolerant of those whom I consider to be morons...

That's a good thing???

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Max Erhman

Nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere

[geo7863]

I am extremely intolerant of those whom I consider to be morons...

That's a good thing???

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Max Erhman

Nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere

Well obviously not on a forum like this, which is why I probably wont post too much... might get away with a bit of overt sarcasm every now and then, but I don't wish to start any 'flame wars'! Bashing skulls against stubborn ignorance is bad for my blood pressure anyway!

[BazBear]

Welcome aboard George.

[Echnaton]

I am extremely intolerant of those whom I consider to be morons...

That's a good thing???

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Max Erhman

Nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere

Well obviously not on a forum like this, which is why I probably wont post too much... might get away with a bit of overt sarcasm every now and then, but I don't wish to start any 'flame wars'! Bashing skulls against stubborn ignorance is bad for my blood pressure anyway!

We are a forum that invites hoax believers to come and present their case.  We need to give them some room to work or our efforts to discuss hoax beliefs will fail and all we will do is talk among ourselves.   I limit my posting here to times I feel I can address the HBs without getting personal.  I could never be a politician because I lack the ability to gladly suffer fools.

[gillianren]

I don't suffer them gladly.  I just work to make my personal irritation limited in my presentation here, and then, I vent to certain of my friends who find HBs' antics funny.

[sts60]

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Max Erhman

Nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere

You can't please any of the people any of the time.  So the hell with 'em.
- My former boss

[geo7863]

I am extremely intolerant of those whom I consider to be morons...

That's a good thing???

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Max Erhman

Nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender consideration of the ignorant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- Moliere

Well obviously not on a forum like this, which is why I probably wont post too much... might get away with a bit of overt sarcasm every now and then, but I don't wish to start any 'flame wars'! Bashing skulls against stubborn ignorance is bad for my blood pressure anyway!

We are a forum that invites hoax believers to come and present their case.  We need to give them some room to work or our efforts to discuss hoax beliefs will fail and all we will do is talk among ourselves.   I limit my posting here to times I feel I can address the HBs without getting personal.  I could never be a politician because I lack the ability to gladly suffer fools.

Obviously I can see the merits of this, I have been on forums where you are 'out' at the slightest remark which goes against the grain, and then as you say all you get is a bunch of people patting each other on the back in their 'righteousness'.

I haven't read every single post here on every single thread the few that I have read (not just on this forum, but on this topic) seems to be from people who appear (to me) to have no intention of 'discussing' their beleifs, or maybe I have written that incorrectly, they want to 'discuss' but only to the extent that they are absolutely 100% correct regardless of what anybody else has to say. They wil hammer their 'point home' and disregard everything else and that is the stubborn ignorance that I dont want to bash my head against.

We have ALL been wrong over something in some point in our lives, maybe a 'big' something maybe not a 'big' something. And we are wrong because we have been misinformed at some point. Perhaps we thought we saw something that didnt actually occur the way our brain told us that it did..and the limiting factor is 'our brain' not the act or occurance that we saw. Perhaps we read something that wasnt strictly accurate, or someone told us something and they were wrong. It is easy to be wrong about something but to stick doggedly to this wromng belief and disregard every other input into the subject, from people who may be more intelligent, more learned, more informed..well tht doesnt exactly lead to 'honest' debate or discussion does it?

[DonQuixote]

Howdy folks!

I'm a lifelong space enthusiast and self-proclaimed information sponge. I come to your wonderful site courtesy of having run afoul of a nest of conspiracy heads. I believe that the space program embodies the very finest aspirations of humanity, and hope to become a valued member of your online community.

Sadly, due to a tragically(but fun-filled!) misspent youth, I can claim no real credentials, but I have a strong foundation in science and mathematics and more than a smattering of programming skill. I also pride myself on being a keen observer of human nature.

[Bryanpoprobson]

Ooo missed this thread, i'm bryanpoprobson been in Telecoms all my working career, Fibre optics and Sat Coms Specialist, after a 8 year sabbatical in Spain, where I've done everything from working as a chef to painting and decorating, selling property, etc. I am now back in my native UK and back as a Broadband and telephone installer and network fault finder. However I am now back at Uni taking a degree in law in order to take over my father in laws firm.

[smartcooky]

Ooo missed this thread, i'm bryanpoprobson been in Telecoms all my working career, Fibre optics and Sat Coms Specialist, after a 8 year sabbatical in Spain, where I've done everything from working as a chef to painting and decorating, selling property, etc. I am now back in my native UK and back as a Broadband and telephone installer and network fault finder. However I am now back at Uni taking a degree in law in order to take over my father in laws firm.

Have you ever played football?