Re: [ATM] ATM You Tube Group

["Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@verizon.net>]

Bill,

Thank you for your thoughts.

My position is that Telescope Making has always been a field with numerous 
different theories and levels of competence. I'll post anything that comes 
along and let the rating system of You Tube do the dirty work.

We are fortunate to have such a vehicle available, previous generations of 
telescope makers did not.

If you have a copy of ATM #3, please read the article by Burch on page 65 
relating to pinhole size. If you do the math and look at the sudden change 
of units from English to metric, you'll see what I mean. This is generally 
considered to be an authoritative publication, but not all articles which 
were published are correct. Indeed some are simply nutty, but someone who is 
unfamiliar with math might not understand the problem. The ability to engage 
in civil discourse with others concerning various theories should eb 
sufficient to weed out the pseudoscience and alchemy from the real science.

Best regards to all.

Francis J. O'Reilly
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Kelley" <flex@commspeed.net>
To: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@bestweb.net>; "Dominic-Luc Webb" 
<dlwebb@canit.se>
Cc: <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] ATM You Tube Group


> Francis, Domenic, et al.,
>
> It would seem to be useful to have a video/lecture site as an
> adjunct to the ATM list. Domenic is right, evidence based
> information (not always what you get on ATM list) should be
> offered, or the ATM You Tube Group will become a serious
> disservice to the telescope maker.
> My hopefully valuable 2 cents.
>
> (Still bending glass in Arizona-
> and working on advances in flex mirrors)
> Bill Kelley
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@bestweb.net>
> To: "Dominic-Luc Webb" <dlwebb@canit.se>
> Cc: <atm@atmlist.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [ATM] ATM You Tube Group
>
>
>> Domenic,
>>
>> I look forward to your posts.
>>
>>
>> Francis
> I'll keep this in mind. I think we will need a peer review
>>> process (I will anyway), and an impact factor. We can guess
>>> the impact factor would be a bit low, but I notice that
>>> youtube citations are quite high. Since academia now rates
>>> us by the ratio of impact factor divided by citations, well....
>>> you get my point.... impossible dream, I know....
>>>
>>> Seriously, breaking these up in segments is not actually bad.
>>> It has a natural tendency to lend itself well to problem
>>> based learning. Basically, teach a little, confront the
>>> audience with a question. Answer comes in next segment.
>>>
>>> Dominic
>>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Francis J. O'Reilly wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dominic,
>>>>
>>>> Please post your videos. As you may have gathered, they are limited to
>>>> ten
>>>> minutes each  so your lecture may have to be broken into segments, my
>>>> videos
>>>> are effectively rather loose lectures.
>>>>
>>>> Francis
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Dominic-Luc Webb" <dlwebb@canit.se>
>>>> To: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@verizon.net>
>>>> Cc: "Vladimir Galogaza" <vladimir.galogaza1@zg.t-com.hr>;
>>>> <atm@atmlist.net>
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:20 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ATM] ATM You Tube Group
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Francis J. O'Reilly wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Vladmir,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I strongly encourage any and all ATM related video. Metrology is an
>>>> >> area
>>>> >> that is of special interest. Please post your video.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have at times done a little metrology, if you really mean
>>>> > metrology (science of weights and measures or of measurement).
>>>> > I could even think it might be interesting for some of us
>>>> > who know a little math to have some online lectures.
>>>> >
>>>> > Dominic_______________________________________________
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