Kyle I too do hope you will be back soon, until then we, all your friends here, will miss you dearly.
A bientôt, Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Steck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Kyle R. Mcallister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:55 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Happy trails, guys > Kyle, > It's never really good-bye, but more see you later. Very sorry to hear of > your circumstances. Thank you for your kind words. I am sure you will find > yourself again once you've finished your walkabout. > > Best wishes and happiness wherever life takes you. > > -john > > ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ > John Steck & Associates > Product Research and Development Consulting > Design + Engineering + Production + Marketing > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kyle R. Mcallister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 5:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Vo]:Happy trails, guys > > > Dear Vortexians, > > Given a set of circumstances which have come upon me in the past few > weeks, one death, another to imminently die, and another wasting away > with Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotropic lateral sclerosis), plus a loss > through the above death of almost all contacts or potential contacts > within the scientific community, particularly where they would involve > propulsion researches, I find the time has come to bid you all farewell. > > I do not take the decision lightly. I'm also not looking for sympathy. > Given what some think of me, in any case, it would be sympathy for the > devil. Some others here might not feel so harshly :) It's been a long > and interesting ride, and I will miss it. I'll miss science as well. > I've found that I cannot work on it any more without feeling a > depression such as I have never experienced before. So close to some > interesting things, and yet, here I am. > > I've tried to point people quietly in directions that may hold some > promise of interesting findings, mostly off-list. The lifter is a dead > end, and the Biefeld-Brown thing is so muddied by now that there is no > use trying to deal with it. By now, there are a million different > versions of what it is. I guess in some ways the internet helps, and in > others, isn't so grand. Ironic that the free exchange of knowledge can > help to conceal itself, and spread fictions in the name of truth. > > There are far too many people I would like to thank for their time, if I > miss your name, please know that it was not intentional. > > > John Steck, always liked your posts, nice to hear a simple reasonable > message every now and then. > > Michel Jullian, had a grand time discussing the Lifter/Borbas thing. > It'll be in my mind as the last great hurrah I had in this enjoyable, > detestable, thrilling, maddening, uplifting, heartbreaking, and all > together baffling line of work: reactionless propulsion. > > Horace Heffner, loved your posts. Not much of a theory man myself, I > just do the experiments for the most part, but I enjoyed your posts. > Don't give up on 45 degrees. > > Dr. Mitchell Swartz, though your posts were few and far between in more > recent times, I read and enjoyed them all. Good luck in your work. > > Fred Sparber, never always understood everything you were getting at, > but that's OK, your posts gave me something to read and unwind to after > a long day at the shop or in the lab. > > Jed Rothwell, we never agreed on much, but I guess that isn't so bad; a > world where everyone agrees would be pretty damned boring. Keep up the > LENR-CANR work, and best of luck to all of that. > > R.C. Macaulay, keep up the work at the Dime Box saloon ;) > > To all who are championing alternative energy, keep it up. I hope > someone among you can make it work. > > Last but certainly not least, William Beaty. You are in my opinion a god > among men for putting all this, Vortex, Freenrg, Amasci, etc. together > and keeping it going after all these years, and putting up with so much > for so long. God bless you for making a few of my years interesting end fun. > > A few have emailed me privately and asked what I'm all about. Who I am. > Well, I understand I am somewhat contradictory at times. It comes with > the territory I suppose. So, here's me: > > A mechanic, who longs for the days of the simpler auto's. A scientist, > who just maybe saw the things in the distance, but can't quite reach; > I'm just too tired. A writer at the moment, take your pick of political > intrigue, science fiction, comedy, dark introspection and a few things I > stole (with best of intentions, of course) from the wonderful anime > people. A former artist, who enjoyed drawing a good landscape or a > comic, but who no longer has that ability due to a hand injury. An > environmentalist (surprised?). Possibly a vegetarian at some point, I'm > leaning that way, but damn if I don't love a good BBQ. A spiritual man, > who finds that I don't fit into the standard mold of religion. > > Mostly, I am a dreamer. Maybe that, and hating the turns my life has > taken is what drove me to turn to writing. To paraphrase something Jimmy > Buffet said, about a friend who "could not find his place in the 20th > century", if I just choose to live in a fantasy world, "What in the > hell's wrong with that?" > > God bless you all, have good lives, and Don't Fear the Reaper. > > Adios, amigos. > --Kyle Randall Mcallister >
