Bill Casey & Ralph Rene books

JayUtah said:
Correct; that was indeed Rene who built the glove box and also claimed a finite value for pi.
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nitpick (although I'm not sure who I'm nitpicking): pi is finite, but not rational. Infinite decimal is also used to describe it.
 
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RecoveringYuppy said:
nitpick (although I'm not sure who I'm nitpicking): pi is finite, but not rational. Infinite decimal is also used to describe it.
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I was going to say "non-transcendental value," a reasonably accurate way to describe something that can't be pi. "No," I thought. "Don't say that. It sounds pretentious and confusing. Speak informally." So much for second-guessing.
 
Spanky said:
"Now why on earth would you want to read any of his crap, let alone pay anyone for it?"
It will make a great conversation piece

"It is trivially easy to google up a scanned copy of his book. Odd that this never occurred to you."
Limited computer savyness.

Dean
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We went to the moon.
 
That thread is closed on UM for being too fractious. The chance of the thread re-opening or Willis returning is exactly zero. Don't waste your time
 
Was it Kaysing or Rene who lived in a trailer in the desert surrounded by cats? (Or both?)
 
That was Kaysing. René lived out his final years in southern Indiana. There was discussion on the old Badastronomy.com forum of some of us who lived in Indiana and Ohio taking a road trip to visit him, but nothing came of it before he passed away.
 
SpitfireIX said:
That was Kaysing. René lived out his final years in southern Indiana. There was discussion on the old Badastronomy.com forum of some of us who lived in Indiana and Ohio taking a road trip to visit him, but nothing came of it before he passed away.
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Why on Earth would you waste time on that willfully ignorant individual?
 
René was markedly paranoid in his final years. Showing up to his door unannounced as opponents of his book would have likely subjected you to risk of serious bodily harm.
 
JayUtah said:
René was markedly paranoid in his final years. Showing up to his door unannounced as opponents of his book would have likely subjected you to risk of serious bodily harm.
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Yet another reason to refrain from a visit. I have watched a few of Marcus Allen's video replays of his lectures, although he has not to my knowledge presented live in CONUS, I wouldn't waste a dime to buy tickets.;)
 
SpitfireIX said:
A lot of us arguably "waste time on" conspiracy theorists here and on other forums. Why should doing it in person be any different? (Jay's point below aside, of course.)
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Yes, we all waste our time and effort on CTs, but that would involve money and a lot of time. a mere few minutes a day on boards such as this, but I understand your point.
 
Elagabalus said:
Tbf, René's immediate surroundings do look a bit "trailerish".


https://youtu.be/aoBIQRh7rZ4?t=1077
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My memory (admittedly fallible), was of seeing basically the same demonstration, but performed by Kaysing at his desert residence. So it may be that old Bill was inspired by Ralph to obtain a similar device of his own, in order to repeat the same mistake.

Or I could be conflating two memories.

Doctor!... DOCTOR!... My brain hurts!
 
SpitfireIX said:
That was Kaysing. René lived out his final years in southern Indiana. There was discussion on the old Badastronomy.com forum of some of us who lived in Indiana and Ohio taking a road trip to visit him, but nothing came of it before he passed away.
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I grew up in Merrillville, IN, but I left in '95. (And my wife earned her materials B.S. at Purdue before going on to RPI for her M.S.)

A trip to Ralph's place in improvised armor of washboards and cooking pot helmets might have been interesting, though. His surrounding look fairly suburban, and I'll bet he was widely regarded as the neighborhood crank.

"Don't hit the ball into mean old Mr. Rene's yard, or we'll never get it back and he'll call the cops on us!"
 
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