[ATM] Re: ATM Digest, Vol 12, Issue 25

[artbianconi@blast.net]

Hello Matt,

I'll do as you ask. 

I'll complete the OTA and mount the mirror with silicon and 
invite those I know here to evaluate it's performance. They are 
fair, quite knowledgeable (two especially so) and experienced.

In the meantime I will model a complete assembly in the design 
software and send the geometry to those who request it from here 
for critique and suggested changes. The geometry of the 
multipoint cell will be based on a PLOP solution suggested by 
someone here but not you. Your demonstrated zeal, your passion 
for being right, makes you incapable of being impartial (sic!)

I will see if I can find an old co-worker or client who can 
import my cell assembly models into his design software and run 
his FEA package, whichever it may be, and then we'll compare the 
three: the star tests, the FEA results and PLOP.

Thank you for your "critical" post! I mean that Matt, sincerely. 
Please do not underestimate its value to me. It was surprising. 
It was educational and enlightening in ways you can't even 
imagine.

For one, it never occurred to me that another human being would 
have such an intense attachment to something so relatively 
unimportant as a mirror mounting theory that he would snarl at me 
like an attack dog at the suggestion of an alternative. It was as 
if someone had reached between the bars of a cage and provoked a 
Jurassic carnivore with a cattle prod. The nature of the response 
was a bit disappointing. Still I am flattered that I have the 
ability to evoke such passion.

Second, it was interesting that you should demonstrate cynicism 
AND intense passion in one post. Typically, cynicism and passion 
are at opposite extremes in the range of human responses. For 
both to exist in the same place at the same time is unusual. 

This "test" will take some time. The 15" I am working on is in 
the final stages of polishing and only sees me once every two 
weeks. I must still build the OTA. It  will, however, get done.

Thanks very much. Have a great holiday and an even better 2005.

Art


> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:31:13 -0500
> From: "matt" <mariusrf@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ATM] PLOP's usefullness.
> To: <atm@atmlist.net>
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> 
> Art,
> Whatever you're smoking works good . Don't give it up, because 
you
> could write a book when you're in this state . What on Earth 
has
> buck Fuller got to do (or E=mc2 for that matter) with your
> theoretical idea of what is economically good or not for ATM's. 
If
> you honestly believe , based on whatever logic is left in you, 
or
> rather based on your own thought processes that you may believe 
to
> be logical, that 15 "plops" of silicone on the back of a mirror
> are going to hold it without introducing larger distortions 
than a
> whiffle tree cell, then JUST DO IT . Talk is cheap. Set up your
> mirror with the 15 dabs of silicone , test it with a few 
different
> methods, take some pics, post them on a website, and show the
> whole damn stupid rest of the world who is so stubborn to use 
FEA
> and complex arrangements . Until then, please at least try to
> follow your medication schedule and post at least a half hour
> after you take your pills.
> 
> 
> best regards,
> matt tudor
> 


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