[meteorite-list] Micro Mike Text

[Greg Catterton]

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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