Frank Znidarsic wrote:
Miley, Jed, Cravens, Goldies, the Redings, Passell, and I were
there. We all had great hope. I look older now. Ten years is a
material amount of time in the human life time. Jim Reding and G.
Mallove have passed on.
I dreamed of a career in new energy.
People sure do get a different impressions of events. I did not have
great hope. On the contrary, I thought the meeting and the demo were
disasters, and I predicted that CETI would go down in flames. The
company continued longer than I thought it would.
I almost did not attend. When I arrived, Reding told me I would not
be allowed to make an audio recording, take notes, or confirm the
temperature readings with my own thermistor, because he wanted to
keep the details of their research under wraps. I said if I had known
those were the rules I would never have come, and that under the
circumstances I would leave the meeting at once, go home, and post
messages on Internet saying why I could not report on the meeting. He
relented. I found it ironic weeks later when he distributed my
written description of the demonstration without asking me for
permission. (Not that I would have refused him but it would have been
nice to ask.)
I called Chris Tinsley that evening seething with anger and disgust.
He said he never heard me so upset. Actually, I seldom get angry.
Chris & I used to laugh at things like this, and later we did put
CETI in perspective, and we saw the humor and pathos in it. We may
not have funding, but humor and pathos are two things this field has
in abundance.
- Jed
