tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post213450471770788104..comments2023-12-19T09:40:12.020-08:00Comments on The Emoluments of Mars: Richard Hoagland's incredible arroganceexpathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-26432701535861806132015-06-16T11:16:19.096-07:002015-06-16T11:16:19.096-07:00RCH is not a scientist. He used to be a planetariu...RCH is not a scientist. He used to be a planetarium director about 30 years ago, before he ran across the Face on Mars gig (from which he profited handsomely). Since then has dove off the deep end. I've heard him talk. I'm not paid to do so and not paid to say that what I heard was twaddle. You don't have to be paid to recognize idiocy when you hear it.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-22111467532458174872015-06-06T13:09:01.568-07:002015-06-06T13:09:01.568-07:00Everyone here is mispronouncing the lunatic's ...Everyone here is mispronouncing the lunatic's name, and you need to stop it. <br /><br />Pay attention. I only want to say this once:<br /><br />It's pronounced "HOAXLAND".<br /><br />Richard C (for Charlatan) Hoaxland.<br /><br />And I can back up everything I said about the pronunciation using HippoDiversional Physics, utilizing the non-integer prime numbers of 19.5 and Pi-Over-De-Square-Root-'O-Two. <br /><br />Nyaaaah. So there.<br /><br />....On a more serious note, when is this BS artist going to go away, and stay away?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-6312901027933178542015-06-06T03:41:17.769-07:002015-06-06T03:41:17.769-07:00Jourget: "Shortly after RCH said Isaac Asimov...Jourget: "Shortly after RCH said Isaac Asimov thought of himself as RCH's "surrogate father"...<br /><br />Hey, lets follow that data! Deeper realities might start opening up when it comes to his ultimate <i>motivations</i> ;-)<br /><br /><br />DeeDeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-4520197595496926412015-06-05T14:18:47.711-07:002015-06-05T14:18:47.711-07:00It was on his 2015-04-09 show with George. Hour 2,...It was on his 2015-04-09 show with George. Hour 2, beginning around 27:00 in. Shortly after RCH said Isaac Asimov thought of himself as RCH's "surrogate father"...jourgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-37639868752162826832015-06-05T10:20:14.939-07:002015-06-05T10:20:14.939-07:00Which night was that when he was begging? I remem...Which night was that when he was begging? I remember him mentioning it some time recently, but I don't remember George saying they couldn't do it 'cause of the budget.astroguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807615605691873999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-26071043785693452402015-06-05T08:59:32.480-07:002015-06-05T08:59:32.480-07:00Astroguy-
Yeah, I heard him begging for the NH sh...Astroguy-<br /><br />Yeah, I heard him begging for the NH show from George on Coast the other night. One of the most awkward moments of the evening. RCH wanted to turn it into an echo of "his" Mariner 4 broadcast 50 years ago, with George at JPL as a "roving reporter". I wonder if RCH even knows or cares that New Horizons isn't a JPL mission?<br /><br />Noory shut him down pretty good, telling him they didn't have the budget to do that, and RCH sulkily said that if George didn't want to take part he could do it himself. Still, I'll bet George will be happy to have that half-serious bet that RCH could have his own Coast show finally off his ledger.<br /><br />Didn't catch that he mentioned it on Hughes' show the other day, though. Thanks! jourgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-45837505513864911882015-06-04T17:00:29.686-07:002015-06-04T17:00:29.686-07:00@ jourget -- RCH claimed that George is going to h...@ jourget -- RCH claimed that George is going to have an extravaganza with him on the day of the NH flyby of Pluto. Sigh.<br /><br />@BSB -- It's an exaggeration, but it is true. Phil won't debate him. The reason is that Hoagland is simply too familiar with his mythology, and he will instantly Gish Gallop to a completely different part if he senses that Phil is about to explain away what Richard just said. It's a debate that Phil can't win, it would be to an audience that already gives he Win to Richard, so what's the point? That said, I'll step up ...astroguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807615605691873999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-25418930366220364602015-06-04T04:37:04.392-07:002015-06-04T04:37:04.392-07:00I also heard Hoagland say that he's been tryin...I also heard Hoagland say that he's been trying to debate Phil Plait for years but every time Plait takes off at warp 9 and refuses to debate. I find that incredulous.Binaryspellbookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267580272489277927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-7771741480530014932015-06-04T04:03:04.297-07:002015-06-04T04:03:04.297-07:00Like many mainstream scientist's RCH is fallen...Like many mainstream scientist's RCH is fallen ill to a classic case of "do not bother me with facts and/or use sound science on me....my mind is made up and therefore I am a messenger of the truth". A paradox in itself :-)<br /><br />AdrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-38978473562890108682015-06-03T16:50:00.245-07:002015-06-03T16:50:00.245-07:00Judging by how little RCH appears at many of the c...Judging by how little RCH appears at many of the conferences/cruises/events where I might have expected to see his name, I was wondering whether he, too, had been subject to a scaler attack, no doubt launched from a 19.5 degree angle.<br /><br />In April, he recapped his version of his career (with a lot of name dropping) on a internet broadcast (Richie Allen): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-vagQWe84<br /><br />He explained that his current age of 70 years (10 x7) is important in hyper dimensional physical equations and concluded that things will get extraordinarily interesting in his field. So he is looking on his age as a new beginning, with the planet heading towards some kind of extraordinary breakpoint, a peak of that will be shape and transform the human condition. And he will be a part of that. <br /><br />Indeed, the stunning and unequivocal images of ancient technology that has come from the Chinese moon lander, from Mars, and from the comet is setting the stage for what will be revealed on Pluto. Buy his new book! If he is right, 50 years of denial will come to an end. Private research and development is forcing NASA's hand. Technology that is on the moon (or buried on it) will revolutionize life on this earth. <br /><br />The hardest question he was asked had to do with rumors of dead NASA scientists, but as an aside we learned that Hillary will not be the one and Richard hopes to go to the moon himself in the next five years. Who needs conferences when the moon is at hand?Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13489446146745522101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-5929059902669893382015-06-03T16:10:03.455-07:002015-06-03T16:10:03.455-07:00We can hope, but his return engagement is schedule...We can hope, but his return engagement is scheduled for six days after New Horizons' flyby of Pluto, which RCH has been going on about for months. Art will undoubtedly be fielding loads of emails begging for a spot from Hoagland, and with Pluto in the news, he might think it'd be a good draw to kickstart the show.,jourgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-56016062091974024592015-06-03T14:44:12.238-07:002015-06-03T14:44:12.238-07:00I wouldn't count on Art Bell reviving Hoagland...I wouldn't count on Art Bell reviving Hoagland at all. They didn't get on too well when RCH appeared on Art's SiriusXM show in September 2013.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-37312424348652659842015-06-03T13:28:26.345-07:002015-06-03T13:28:26.345-07:00Whenever I start listening to a Hoagland broadcast...Whenever I start listening to a Hoagland broadcast these days, I know ahead of time that I'm going to have one of two thoughts: either "I thought I had heard him at the craziest he could possibly get, but here we are" or "I thought I had heard him at the most desperate and marginalized he could possibly get, but there's apparently still more".<br /><br />He's usually pretty good at hiding how stressful it must be to have fallen so completely through the cracks. He's still a pretty smooth talker most of the time, despite the website and Facebook page having fallen silent, the conference appearances having completely dried up, and his apparently sole source of income for the year having to be split 13 ways. But there have been two recent moments I can think of where the mask has slipped a bit.<br /><br />The first was RCH's appearance on Coast for two hours with guest host Richard Syrett back on March 27. Far from RCH being his usual gregarious self, that appearance was an insane word salad of disjointed comments, almost desperate self-aggrandizement, and delirious leaping from one unsupported claim to another. It had been three months since his appearance anywhere, and you could tell that his single goal was to sell books, and a lot of them, as fast as possible.<br /><br />The second is this appearance you document so well, where his frustration might be even more evident. I think one thought is on his mind more than any other these days: counting down to July 20, when Art Bell gets back on the air and he once again has a reliable outlet and a last chance to grab the magic of the old days.jourgetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-40282129187285857492015-06-03T13:24:23.603-07:002015-06-03T13:24:23.603-07:00"...the awful Enterprisemission website (last..."...the awful Enterprisemission website (last updated six months or so ago)."<br /><br />Time flies if you're mostly dreaming! If I recall your blog correctly (<a href="http://dorkmission.blogspot.nl/2014/04/i-have-dream-today.html" rel="nofollow">I have a dream today</a>) it's been already more than a <i>year</i>!<br /><br />We're still waiting rahter breatless on part II as announced at the end: "The 'Moon Goddess' Chang'e ... Her Pet 'Jade Rabbit'...and a Flock of 'Lunar Crows' ....Part II".<br /><br />My God, Hoagland is sounding crankier than ever! In every sense of the word.<br /><br />Dee<br /><br /> <br /><br />Coming SoonDeehttp://dorkmission.blogspot.nl/2014/04/i-have-dream-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com