[meteorite-list] Micro Mike Text

From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <627843.50843.qm_at_web46408.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

He kinda sounds like someone that would be interesting to talk to.
Here is the "strange guy" in my town... Willard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWDHzkw8Js
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_89ITAl-2A

People are strange...

Greg Catterton
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--- On Sun, 10/31/10, Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Micro Mike Text
> To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Sunday, October 31, 2010, 11:04 AM
> Here is the text if the link doesn't
> work:
> >
> >Sunday, November 21, 2004
> >
> >Los Alamos Hermit Booted Off Lab Property? Spreads
> His Theories of the Cosmos
> >
> >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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