Peter A. Sturrock
Teoksen The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence tekijä
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Peter A. Sturrock is emeritus professor of applied physics and emeritus director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University. He has received numerous awards including prizes from the American Astronomical Society; The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; näytä lisää Cambridge University; The Gravity Foundation; and the National Academy of Sciences. His other publications include five edited volumes, two monographs, and over two hundred scientific articles. näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Peter Sturrock, Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University
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Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Sturrock, Peter Andrew
- Syntymäaika
- 1924
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 6
- Jäseniä
- 68
- Suosituimmuussija
- #253,411
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 2.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 2
- ISBN:t
- 11
- Kielet
- 1
In my day job, once in a while, especially when I’m getting my feet wet with a new client, I get emails from clients saying stuff like this: “I’m really excited to have you as my new Service Manager”. This is not much different when I get an automatic response from an internet service that goes like: “Hmm, that’s not the right password. Please try again or request a new one” (or something similar). I always assumed “Hmm” was intended to make me think that the automated response was typed, in real time, by a real Turing being – a being who is my pal and writes to me in a conversational style, even using conversational interjections like “Hmm.” Ultimately this is an insult to my “intelligence”. Although I only get slightly miffed when I get responses like those above coming from a machine (or from a new client...), I get real mad when I’m reading a book, wherein the writing is histrionic, narcissistic, and bloated. And I’m not even talking about the supposed “science” therein. I don’t know where this guy, Peter Sturrock, stands when it comes to the authorship question, but after reading this drivel, I think he takes sides with the likes of Derek Jakobi and Mark Rylance.
If you're into Shakespeare and bad science, read the rest of the review on my blog.… (lisätietoja)