Recent content by OldGazer

Youtube is awash with "educational " videos that are flat out wrong, and a good majority of the "reviews" and "box openings" are produced by people who are being paid by the manufacturer. Ask yourself these questions: What is the ratio of good to bad reviews of this product? How many times...

Join Cloudy Nights. There are multiple forums that are dedicated to specific areas like mounts, refractors, reflectors, cameras, eyepieces, and so on. You're in for a wild ride I hope you enjoy it as much as the rest of us star gazers do.

As I suspected would happen the responses are all over the place but there are some critical factor factors that are conspicuous by there absence: Money and Political Power. I will be the first to admit that we as an intelligent self aware species have a penchant for doing things that are not...

This is easy. The Earth's climate in not changing. Its the weather that changes just like it has from the very beginning. Sometimes it's hot, sometimes its cold, sometimes it rains and sometimes it doesn't. Global averages are meaningless. At its core the dogma of climate change is a...

I agree 100%. Thanks to Uncle Sam I have a core background in Nuclear Physics, and Electrical Power Generation and Distribution. I also have hands on experience with oil fired steam plants, gas turbine power plants, analog and digital electronics, mechanics, heat transfer and fluid flow...

You made my point exactly. The bottom line is we really don't have a clue, and sometimes it takes us a while to realize we are being lied to.

Yes I do because the "science" used to "prove" climate change just doesn't work. It didn't work for the "big freeze" scare, and for darned sure it didn't work for "global warming" either. Look at what they are blaming it on: People roaming around freely and enjoying the fruits of their...

I was into "Space Stuff" long before Scully and Mulder were dreamed up. I remember the news flashes about Sputnik on October 4th 1957. That event lit a fire in my soul that has never burned out. I've built and flown model planes, model rockets, model helicopters, and drones. I have three...

Climate change is a hoax. Proponents can't come up with any worthwhile 3rd party verifiable empirical data because there isn't any. There never was any and there never will be any. Bill Gates won't plant trees because according to him trees make carbon an we all know that dieing stars (novas...