Re: [ATM] 20" Mirror

["Vladimir Galogaza" <vladimir.galogaza@zg.htnet.hr>]

>Will some of you guys tell David to take my generous offer, and learn
>something about what he is trying to do?
>Bill


The more futile certain activity looks the more attractive it becomes for
some,  special kind-of, people.
Examples are numerous. Climbing Mt. Everest, Sailing unchartered waters,
first hart transplantation, Extreme sports, or living itself.  In those
cases survival is/was improbable, failure certain, and yet it was
magnetically attractive and
there is a kind of tunneling effect that brings some of those lucky
"David's" to the other
side of the theoretically impenetrable barrier, to the success, however it
improbable is.
There are names for such people, stupid, lunatic, stubborn, brave,
adventurous, heretical,
dissidents, visionaries, to name a few. Which of those names applies depends
on outcome.
.
Apparently, in this thread, everything was said in favor of smaller mirror
approach, in good faith and from hard won experience. Sapienti sat!
Yet some people operate on "strange" principles. Mel Bartels for example (in
my
opinion), Jerry is very likely one of (compare his: "but I must make a
bigger mirror."),
Colombo
(navigator, not detective), Hillary (Sir Edmund, not the future presidential
candidate), certainly did.
And in every ATM there is at least small sample of it ( called woodchuck
by some).
We are talking about  efficiency-to-adventure ratio not about plain "ratio"
(sense).
Where is in this case passing Strehl ratio nobody knows for sure.
(Though irrational behavior does not necessarily makes somebody an
icebreaker.)

Let them learn in their way. They are not in life danger so our
consciousness
can rest and watch.

Vladimir.
PS
Bill, are you writing?








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