[meteorite-list] Micro Mike Text

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:04:44 -0700 (PDT)
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>Sunday, November 21, 2004
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>Los Alamos Hermit Booted Off Lab Property Spreads His Theories of the Cosmos
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>By Adam Rankin
>Journal Staff Writer
> LOS ALAMOS? Roy Michael Moore, aka the Los Alamos caveman, dropped out of
>the mainstream almost a decade ago, and though he has been largely ignored for
>the four years he's peddled his cosmological theories here, he is a long way
>from giving up on making the sale.
> Discovered living in a cave on Oct. 13 in a deep canyon on U.S. Department
>of Energy property at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the 56-year-old Moore is
>finally gaining the attention he's been seeking for years. Someone from
>Albuquerque wants to film a documentary about him and a brief story about his
>discovery appeared on Wired magazine online.
> A Vietnam veteran who spent four years playing clarinet in a Marine Corps
>band in the late 1960s, Moore is hoping to shift the focus from himself and his
>cave dwelling to his life's work.
> "I would sacrifice everything I own to get my story out," he said.
> It was in 1996 that the former computer programmer and network manager sold
>all his possessions, abandoned his Amarillo, Texas, computer business and
>devoted all his energy to thinking deep thoughts.
> "I served my time until my kids left home. When they left, I felt I had no
>more responsibilities," he said. Moore divorced when his oldest daughter, now
>26, was 8 years-old and his son was about 6.
> "I didn't know a thing about business or making money," even though his
>company employed 25 at one time and he used to bill $100 an hour for programing
>the computers he built and sold, he said.
> Dissatisfied with computers, Moore said he felt he had bigger, more
>important problems to work on.
> So, the father of two, who calls himself "Micro Mike" because the nickname
>puts him in the context of the broader universe, started walking and thinking.
> Normal life "is a rat race, and as far as I can tell, the rats are
>winning," he said. Besides, he said, "I never tried to be normal in my life; it
>is just another word for average to me and I want to be above average."
> At first, he walked around Amarillo, thinking about the cosmos, working
>through Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Then, he headed to Socorro,
>where he sought out sky watchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
>hoping he could discuss the newly developed theory he dubbed the "gravionic
>model."
> The theory ascribes energy and spirituality to gravity? the
>action-at-a-distance phenomenon that modern science has a hard time fully
>explaining.
> "They said they didn't have a single cosmologist on staff," Moore said,
>still clearly disappointed.
> No takers there, he next traveled to Roswell, where for a short stint he
>gave talks on a what he claims is a bowling ball-size Martian meteorite he
>found while working as a cowboy on his great-aunt's ranch in northern Texas in
>1971.
> In Roswell, Moore met Lee Weinland, an independent video producer from Los
>Alamos who was intrigued by Moore and his story about the meteorite and his
>claims that it held evidence of complex life on Mars.
> "I never have been able to get any scientists to do any tests on it," Moore
>said.
> Weinland, who describes Moore as an "eccentric genius," invited Moore to
>Los Alamos where the two cooperated to produce a short video on the meteorite
>and Moore's theories on its Martian origin. That's when Moore fell in love with
>Los Alamos, according to Weinland.
> "He fits up here in a lot of ways," Weinland said of Moore. "I believe Los
>Alamos is a town full of very common sense-challenged people and Micro Mike is
>one of them; very brilliant, but common sense challenged... he is no whackier
>than most of the physicists I know up here."
> So now Moore walks around Los Alamos and the Jemez Mountains. According to
>his figuring, he has logged more than 8,000 miles just walking and thinking.
> "Most of my life, I was afraid to be alone," Moore said. "But when I
>started working on my gravionic model, I had to be alone."
> Moore, who says he has many friends in Los Alamos who help him with food
>and clothes, gauges the difficulty of the problems he tackles by how far he
>walks before solving them? a process he says is aided by smoking marijuana.
> When Moore was discovered living in his cave, federal authorities also
>found 10 marijuana plants, each about 18 inches tall growing around the cave.
> "I think the laws that prohibit (marijuana) are unconstitutional," because
>they infringe on his pursuit of happiness, Moore said. "I should be allowed to
>use it to solve problems that help humanity, rather than be punished for it."
> Los Alamos, with its thick population of Ph.D.s working at the weapons
>laboratory, is a highly spiritual community and its great trail network is "the
>perfect place for me," Moore said.
> "I would like to change the image of Los Alamos from the birthplace of the
>atomic bomb to the home of the gravionic model? wouldn't that be so much
>friendlier? Where spirituality is important?" he said.
> The essence of Moore's theory is that gravity, acting through "gravions"
>between any two masses, travels faster than the speed of light, and defines
>space and relationships between masses.
> He says that all of nature takes place in a two-part process through
>connections of gravity and exchanges of energy at or below the speed of light.
>"People make connections of gravity all the time, but no one is aware," he
>said.
> "Spirituality," Moore said, "is really the management of those energies.
>Love is the actions of a sentient being, whereby they make more connections of
>gravity than they break and give more energy than they take."
> The idea, Moore said, is not too different than the one proposed by Obi-Wan
>Kenobi in the first Star Wars movie: Everything is connected.
> The world and society is going wrong, because more people are taking than
>giving, Moore said.
> "I want to make everybody aware of these energy transfers," Moore said,
>"and I think with awareness we'll become a much better society."
> Moore says he is on a mission to spread his theory and be accepted as the
>hermit philosopher of Los Alamos, subsisting on as little as possible and
>devoting most of his energy to improving human society through thought and
>eventually, hopefully, the application of his theories.
> "I just dedicated myself to staying here forever until I die to try to get
>this work done," he said. "I am here on a good purpose."
> The work has not been easy and his quarry? Los Alamos scientists? have not
>been receptive to his unifying theory of the cosmos, an idea that, as far as
>Moore can tell, can solve any and all problems from personal depression to
>anomalies of space and time.
> "Talking to scientists is like banging your head against a wall," Moore
>likes to say. "It only feels good when you stop."
> But that doesn't keep him from trying.
>
>'Not a nut case'
> Crunching through about four inches of freshly fallen snow in a pair of
>sandals and thick woolen socks, Moore recently walked out of the trees on the
>top of a 10,450-foot ridge and onto a stunning view of a long-dormant volcano?
>the backdrop to Los Alamos.
> "I don't know, I was just brought up to believe philosophers wear sandals,"
>he said. "People tell me I am crazy."
> The caldera's grassy meadow stretches from rim to rim, punctuated by
>ancient lava domes like giant camel humps.
> "There were elk down there last time I was here," he said, but not this
>day.
> A broad smile unfolds across his white-bearded face; Moore likes his new
>back yard.
> Since federal authorities discovered him living in a cave in a deep, wooded
>canyon on LANL property, Moore has had to find a new place to reside.
> "I had to get above DOE property; apparently, they are pretty particular
>about their property," he said.
> He's chosen some National Forest land, part way up the volcano's eastern
>rim, overlooking much of the 40-square-mile laboratory, its mesas reaching
>toward the Rio Grande and, beyond, to the well-worn and snow-capped Sangre de
>Cristo Mountains.
> But now, instead of his former solar-powered cave? which was complete with
>satellite radio, marine battery powered LED lights and a sophisticated
>ventilation system? Moore's shelter is a borrowed tent in a ponderosa glade,
>where he spends his time communing with ravens when he isn't walking the ridges
>above, pondering the complexities of the cosmos and human foibles.
> "It's a lot harder to understand humans than it is to understand nature,"
>he said.
> Broad-shouldered and with muscular legs, the stocky, white-haired Moore has
>an appearance reminiscent of those Swedish garden gnomes, maybe Santa Claus.
>He's even got the personality and charisma to go with it.
> "He really is fun to know, he is a jolly guy," said Dee Morrison, who
>worked with Moore for about two years at the Los Alamos Music store. "He should
>be a Santa Claus, except he doesn't like red. He wants to be a blue Santa
>Claus."
> She said Moore encourages people to act in a brotherly fashion, think
>outside the box and challenge their assumptions.
> "I think the thing he wants most is for people to listen to his theories,
>to give him a real solid listening and to put aside their preconceived notions
>and really listen to what he says," she said. "I don't know whether he is
>right, but they certainly are interesting ideas."
> Weinland, who often invites Moore to his home for dinner, said that, once
>people have a chance to talk with Moore, they love him.
> "They know that he is not a nut case," he said. "He is the most kind and
>generous man to people and he has great respect for everybody."
> Moore will sit and talk with anyone who is willing, Weinland said. "He will
>spend days with people, just talking about philosophy, about reality, music,
>gravity, love, typical philosophical topics," he said.
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