I have been watching the various comments about the recent Lunar roundtable with David Hatcher Childress and myself that aired Sunday. After we finished the interview I had a feeling that this might be the general response, which was negative. You may recall a week or so ago I noted in a posted note I will be interested in the forum response.
< From August 20 in a post concerning Apollo 18>
"I will not say too much here prior to the show airing but I will say I was surprised at how the show went in several areas. You will hear me taking exception at some of this material that was presented, simply because I am interested in presenting as factual material as can be presented. I think it will be interesting to watch how this show will be discussed here on The Paracast, if for no other reason than the forum users here are, IMHO, some of the most astute in computer land."
When Gene and Chris mentioned doing this, Gene asked me to see if I could get someone to appear with me and I reached out to Jim Sylvan. I emailed him and then waited. He finally got back to me and I mentioned I wanted to speak to him about doing this. He never got back to me. Time went along then Gene and Chris contacted me and said they had arranged for Childress to appear.
Now, doing legit lunar research without all the bullshit associated with a lot of it, is hard. You must be involved in some in depth research, and a lot of it is technical. Like I have said numerous times, I got started with this back in the early 1990's and have worked on it ... off and on for many years since then.
I have not been in contact with Childress for many years, and even before did not have a lot of contact with him. He is often out in the field, traveling around to various countries and various sites, and some time ago I even reached out to Chris to tell David that I wanted to invite him on DMR, but the upshot is we did not connect. When we did the interview I was was put off when he began to reference the Living Moon/John Lear info and later the Fred Steckling stuff. I was totally aware, years ago, that this was bogus BS but hey, this is not my show ... I was a guest. When I am a guest I try to be polite and respectful, but even so, you heard me try to rail in Childress with some of that, IMHO, bogus crap. This was when I began to suspect that the show might fall flat.
I suppose the ultimate Lunar LTP radio show is still to be done, perhaps better luck next time.
Decker
< From August 20 in a post concerning Apollo 18>
"I will not say too much here prior to the show airing but I will say I was surprised at how the show went in several areas. You will hear me taking exception at some of this material that was presented, simply because I am interested in presenting as factual material as can be presented. I think it will be interesting to watch how this show will be discussed here on The Paracast, if for no other reason than the forum users here are, IMHO, some of the most astute in computer land."
When Gene and Chris mentioned doing this, Gene asked me to see if I could get someone to appear with me and I reached out to Jim Sylvan. I emailed him and then waited. He finally got back to me and I mentioned I wanted to speak to him about doing this. He never got back to me. Time went along then Gene and Chris contacted me and said they had arranged for Childress to appear.
Now, doing legit lunar research without all the bullshit associated with a lot of it, is hard. You must be involved in some in depth research, and a lot of it is technical. Like I have said numerous times, I got started with this back in the early 1990's and have worked on it ... off and on for many years since then.
I have not been in contact with Childress for many years, and even before did not have a lot of contact with him. He is often out in the field, traveling around to various countries and various sites, and some time ago I even reached out to Chris to tell David that I wanted to invite him on DMR, but the upshot is we did not connect. When we did the interview I was was put off when he began to reference the Living Moon/John Lear info and later the Fred Steckling stuff. I was totally aware, years ago, that this was bogus BS but hey, this is not my show ... I was a guest. When I am a guest I try to be polite and respectful, but even so, you heard me try to rail in Childress with some of that, IMHO, bogus crap. This was when I began to suspect that the show might fall flat.
I suppose the ultimate Lunar LTP radio show is still to be done, perhaps better luck next time.
Decker
