From: "Tom Krajci" 
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Reply-To: "Tom Krajci" 


>From: "James Lerch" 

>In the quest to solve the Robo mystery, Robo2 has been finished....

Let's see.  We don't have a good working Robo1...it does not compare
accurately with known, well performing standards...so we'll make another
unproven device against which to test it.  Huh?!?

>In an effort to eliminate the hardware as the culprit, Robo2 has been
>completed and tested against Charlie's mirror....

>At this point, the obvious next step is to star test the optic, and see

>what we see.

Here you choose not to use a quantitative test method as a double check,
but a qualitative one.  Again...Huh?!?

>As it stands now, Robo doesn't agree with Couder Mask testing nor
>intereferometry done at RoC w/o nulling optics.

It has stood this way for months.

I hope and pray mightily that you have not used Robo1 as the sole source of
testing in order to fabricate any mirrors....unless of course, you clearly
and unequivocally informed your end users that they are getting mirrors
that are tested and certified (and I use those terms *very* loosely here)
with an unproven method.  (Who would want such mirrors?)

>I'm pretty confident I've ruled out software, hardware, and the imaging
>system as culprits, which only leaves the theory of digital knife edge
>testing as a possible flaw.

Yup, you are ready to take on Suiter.  I can see you are entering the
battle of wits far less than half-armed.  I have no sympathy for you. The
school of hard knocks is in session, and you are going for an advanced
degree.

>I guess time will tell!

And you are wasting an incredible amount of it.  You must have a surplus of it.

>"Anything that can happen, will happen" -Stephen Pollock from:
"Particle >Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos"

Your signature line almost sounds like an excuse for sloppy, uncontrolled
results where performance is not the final arbiter of technique.  But at
least you are having fun...no?  ;-)

You are hereby filtered.  I have a limited amount of time to review
potentially valuable posts from reliable sources.  I do not consider you a
reliable source.  Maybe occasionally you will give a valuable post...but I
need to search "greener pastures"...where valuable posts come
more frequently.

Sadly, your enthusiasm and endless tinkering will, in my opinion, lead some
folks down the proverbial garden path...in an undisciplined manner of
acquiring techniques and skill.  It may inspire people to pursue their
curiosity...but at the expense of little or no discipline.

This gives the word "amateur" a bad connotation.

Tom Krajci
Tashkent, Uzbekistan


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