Yes. Kim. In addition to attending most public SLAS events in the last 7 years, I also go to observing sites that are not SLAS events over the last 16 years. I meet many people who quit SLAS or who never bothered to join after attending a few events. I always ask them why. Many of them tell me EXACTLY why they do not belong. Often at great length. My point is that we already have had a long running thread on the list about the evils of the Planetarium. It went nowhere and solved nothing. We don't need to do it again. DT --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Kim <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
From: Kim <kimharch@cut.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] My trip to the planetarium To: "'Utah Astronomy'" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 4:18 PM Daniel, I've been involved with SLAS for over 22 years. Until I moved to Sanpete I probably attended SLAS public star parties as regularly as anyone, sometimes going an entire season without missing a single event. I've never heard a complaint from our guests, either during or after a star party. I have to question if you know of even a few, if any, who have had bad experiences at SLAS events. Please, be honest: Do you really know of "dozens" of such people?
Kim
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of daniel turner Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 4:42 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] My trip to the planetarium
I know of dozens of people who have had very unplesant experiences from SLAS members or at SLAS events. Recounting them all would be really boring.
Every one has an occasional bad day. It's best to be big enough to overlook it.
And we've done it all before many times so it's down right tiresome.
This is very much a "glass house" moment.
DT
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