-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Dick 
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 10:06 PM 
To: psnlist@.............. 
Subject: Re: Gulf Of California Recent Event 

  Geoff;

I, too, have experience these feelings. I spent a lot of my time around 
college reps trying to get my students to come to their schools. My son 
set me straight. Don't be too hard on the academia world. It isn't all 
that simple.
> It seems to me that USGS is primarily interested
> in damaging quakes. So if the quake caused
> little or no damage it will not be analyzed so
> quickly.
The money for the seismic apparatus in this country came out of a need 
(or out of a financial justification) to monitor for atomic bomb 
blasts...and this has proved its worth.
> But the Government does nor need
> Professors to do its work.
> To me, a Professor is a Phd in the
> Academic World and not the Physical Work World.
I don't know about ASU but generally there are two forms of colleges; 
the practical and the theoritical/technical. Here Purdue is the 
practical and IU is the theoritical/technical. Purdue is agriculture and 
engineering etc while IU is the medical, chemistry, law direction. 
Smaller schools specialize (teaching or chemistry or business etc).
> Academic meaning the teaching of people.
> I know that the government will hire dedicated Scientist
> who pay no attention to teaching anyone
Here is the big rub most people don't know about. The major 
colleges/universities require their "big" professors to do and are hired 
to do research. It used to be called "publish or parish". Their jobs 
depend on the quantity of their research which in most cases is way 
above the technological understanding of the layman. This research takes 
a lot of their time and it is time depended too. They protect it from 
others that might pirate it. They are given assistants to teach the 
undergrads and do a professor's "bidding" .... like monitoring 
equipment.  Many times our questions seem so elementary that they are 
too simple or the answers are deeply seated in physics which is a weak 
area in most educational circles--and individual expertize. Possibly, 
the questions are things that could be gotten by just reading science 
literature on the subject area -- or taking basic classes. At other 
times, the professor might be about to publish something in that vary area.

There is only one area where amateur science has kept up with academia. 
It is in astronomy where the time needed for observation exceeds the 
time that can be spent and the cheaper quality equipment has made the 
amateur a respectable contributor.

  Don't get bent out of shape!

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Howdy All;
Hello Mr.Dick;

I like to talk, but not in person.
Too many people have beat me up in the past.
Really, with fists and other things as well as
drugs and Psychology and other garbage like that.
The normal person does not really want to communicate.

Meanderings of a crazy Enlisted Volunteer USN Sonar technician
Who after visiting it, turned down an appointment to Annapolis MD USN Academy
When I was 17, During The Draft Cold War Era.

I have never known a last name like this before.
Aboard the USS Long Beach CGN9  there was a Petty Officer Hyman
who took a ribbing all the time. I saw lots of funny names.
And a Petty Officer Goodenough in boot camp .
My name means FOOT (DUTCH) or so I understand,
In a Nazi eugenic way, and not a foot soldier or runner.
My ancestor seems here before or around the civil war.
Not ELLIS ISLAND.

Who Like Other Techs played around with Americas Tactical Nuclear weapons
Under the PRP ( Personnel Reliability Program) Who had the medical
world watching and testing everything we did. They put a magenta
sheet in our medical records with a Triangle, I guess
each side being one of the Nuclear triad.
Sea Air And Land, At least one will get through.
There are few more cold hearted people in the world then the medical world.
Only the Doctors take the Oath to do no harm, willing to defy the evil side of the system.

I really wonder who started inventing human names.
Social Security numbers make more sense to me.
Your Last name makes me think of a detective.
Which is like a scientist in the wrong field.
Do you use a pseudonym or is that your real name ?
I have relatives in the theater who will not use their real names
on the stage.

All I know is I got my own life to live and let no one interfere.
If I'm bent out of shape its over the social insects who
have destroyed any decent sense of self and life.

The Cops/Security peoples are undereducated Neanderthals,
Who if not hired to be police,
would most likely be criminals with their type A personalities,
The religious are undereducated.
The justice system is non-existent.

The Constitution is blatantly ignored the most important authorities
who think wrongly they are the Authority and not the
written law governing their various offices.

I am not kidding when I say these bad authorities have taken/robbed 30 or more
years of my life with their religious, undereducated, Type A shenanigans.

I blame everything bad about this world on dumb
Authority figures who refuse to legislate to limit the world
population to 800E006 or less without any one
culture becoming dominant. To favor the individual over the group.
With a government that is constant and just and like
a machine everyone can use.
Life itself, is too cheap, because of all of "them".
They instigate, under the covers,  many unreasonable human deaths.

This Seismic Stuff is the single most relaxing thing I do
other than uninterrupted sleep. It is my belief that after what has been
done to me that the only justice will be a large meteor
striking the Earth from Sunward so it catches
everyone by surprise. I am powerless to set things right.
If man is made extinct then I will not be forced to repeat life as man
on planet Earth.

No matter what I like this seismic stuff.
It has no bad side which I can see.

Driving Forces in my Amateur Seismic Life;
Never A leader Or Follower be.
Responsibility without Power simply makes one a whipping boy.
Power without responsibility makes one a dictator.
Why do they make a non-existent god the responsible for everything ???
So they can all be petty-dictators and not take any blame.
Religion is the science of placing the blame where it does not belong.
Religion is a an educational conspiracy to cross the generations.
I can never accept this kind of conspiracy in my Country
Which in reality belongs only ONLY in Europe.

I wish no one harm.
Yet I Will Do My Duty.
As I understand it to be.
Independent of the mores and norms of others.
( I do have my own, independent of religion, and, relating to the Pentagon )
Priorities:
8 hours for the self.
8 hours sleeping.
8 hours for the State.
State == Federal Government.
Not, Village, City, County, Or, State
I was not raised in one place, But like a Gypsy,
all over the place called the USA.
I was raised absent of religion.

If I Offended Anyone, That Was Not My Intention.
My Intention is Just to let you see inside a piece of my uncensored soul.
Something the Jews have told me, one should never do.

Best Regards;
geoff

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