Maybe not, but it made me spit out my coffee from laughing so hard.
Now you can all see why Brett is the UNCONTESTED, “Biggest Smartass” in Stunt.
Well played Mr Buck
Thank you! As you well know, I have spent decades carefully cultivating my craft, and (unlike stunt flying) have an innate, hereditary talent for it as well.
However, reality helped out considerably here, because "sci.space..." *really is just like that. Guys with topics like planetary science, physics, aerospace engineering they are utterly obsessed with, but are so inconceivably ignorant that they don't even understand how little they understand. They usually grab on to a single very narrow "gotcha" they think they have found, and then build an entire universe of reasoning around that easily-dismissed idea. And the tendency to see persecution and dark conspiracies everywhere, trying to "undermine" them and keep their unique truth from being openly discussed.
They have the same sort of tendencies to try to dominate or shut down everyone else, and effectively drive people away from daring to respond or interact with them. They are classic Cranks, with all that entails. It's an interesting combination of psychological disorders, and I have to admit to being fascinated by them - not for their important information that they, and only they, really understand, but what combination of factors makes them so insufferable. USENET, and now the internet, have been a godsend; used to, all they could do it stand on a box ranting at passers-by on a streetcorner or write letters to scientists demanding that they deny their theories, or come out in support. Now, they can transmit this nonsense to potentially millions of people, all at one, in a few seconds, for free.
Scott Grissom, for instance, knows and has exactly zero training or education on the topic or 50's aerospace fabrication and manufacturing techniques. But once NASA allowed the families to view the cockpit remains from Apollo 1, in a few minutes he found a "smoking gun" "proving" that NASA "murdered" his dad (and by coincidence, two other people) in the form of a switch backer plate, apparently used to rework the switch panel. And can't tolerate or understand any countering information (like, for instance, the fire started in the aft compartment near the ECU housing, not from a supposed "spark" underneath the switch panel).
Anyone who doubts the assessment of any of these space nutters, go find whoever has archived the USENET group sci.space.policy, and search for "Brad Guth" (people on venus), Thomas Lee Elefritz (mindless Rutan and Musk fanboi), or larger USENET sci... groups and search for Archimedes Plutonium (universe is a plutonium atom, maybe). Go to ZetaTalk (Planet X and "pole flips"), etc.
Brett
p.s. An example:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YpWAnAp1uGaHkwiaGpmcLKr9_sDRS6OYsMVoDTwDYkc/preview And I remind everyone that the surface of Venus is so hot that conventional solder would melt, and, the clouds are sulfuric acid. And, also, that the pressure at the surface is the same as it is at *3000 feet* deep in the ocean.