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Originally Posted by renormalised
They are good scientist (Tom van Flandern is an electrical engineer), but they haven't come up with anything startling, despite what may have been written in that article....which devolved into some rather flowery metaphors and nostalgic "yesteryear" nonsense on more than one occasion.
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News to me there....
- B.S. in Mathematics, June 1962, from Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. Attended onGeneral Motors scholarship, 1958-1962.
- Graduate work in astronomy for one year at Georgetown University, Washington, DC1962-1963, on a teaching fellowship.
- Ph.D. in Astronomy from Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 1969, specializing in Celestial Mechanics. Dissertation: "A discussion of 1950-1968 occultations of stars by the Moon". Adviser: G.M. Clemence.
Feb. 1963 - Dec. 1983: Research Astronomer, Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC. Title: Chief, Celestial Mechanics Branch
(yes that's 20 years as a professional research astronomer with USNaval)
Jan. - Apr. 1971: Consultant, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
Oct. 1997 - Oct. 1998: Contractor for Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD on Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver performance and the inclusion of relativity in the GPS.
Carl you continue to grossly misrepresent both the science and these men. You show you haven't the foggiest of Flandern's work.
Again this is another advertisement to read for yourselves.
"the guy who believes in the Face of Cydonia"
Again... if you actually knew the history, Tom was a skeptic who designed tests to falsify the Mars theory.... if the Mars idea upsets you, that is ok.... but the method and reasoning used can be found from the
Horses Mouth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkXsQbaDg5g
Unfortunately this is just an easy thing to "fling" at someone, for those who seek to dismiss a career. Quite sad really & relevant to some of the insulating points you raise in this thread Craig.