Talk:The Spaceships of Ezekiel

message: I'm curious to know if anyone actually has any evidence of Blumrich being a former NASA employee. The only information I can find out about him online relates to this book. (Weebull) 87.102.20.17 (talk) 18:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed a couple of references to Spaceships Of Ezekiel being a novel; it isn't, but I'm not certain what else it can be called. Non-fiction? Analysis? Theological study? Anyway, the main question is how to change the thing about it being a "novel stub", which of course it isn't. Should the stub tag be removed, or changed to something else?
--Torak 22:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not A Novel 

message: This in no way rises even to the level of hypothesis, much less theory. Since we are talking about a NASA scientist, it's important we use accurate words in order not to mislead readers in thinking this idea rises to the level of a scientific theory, like gravity or germ theory. Auntie E. 02:09, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not misleading at all. Regardless of how ridiculous his claims are, it's still called a theory. A belief means something else in the scientific world. See Ancient Astronaut Theory. 98.198.83.12 (talk) 07:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Which should be hypothesis really, not theory, no way is this a theory. Like Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis. But this book isn't science, it's about belief. Dougweller (talk) 10:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belief, not theory 

message: I've just removed a reference  which was claimed to be an "on-line transcription from photocopy of article provided by NASA under FOIA request" whereas it's just a UP article on Spaceshipsofezekial.com. I note that he is not called Chief of NASA's Systems Layout Branch but "chief of the systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center", something significantly different (and less grand). Dougweller (talk) 07:21, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference to the article in Impact of Science on Society, Oct-Dec 1974, p 335 calls him "chief of the Systems Layout Branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center" which although not as complete as the above, bascially agrees with it. On the basis of this, I'll reinstate the UPI article but without the claim about being a photocopy, and change the lead to the title given him there - it is on spaceshipsofexekial.com after all, and if there was any disagreement with it I'd expect to see that disagreement mentioned there. Dougweller (talk) 07:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blumrich's NASA title 

message: Here's some NASA articles by Blumrich from the NASA website:
Lung salad (talk) 18:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NASA Articles by Blumrich 

message: In the introdution it says; "The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002)". However, given that it does not mention who he is, I therefore added that he was a NASA engineer, changing the sentence to reading; "The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by MASA engineer Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002)", however that was reverted? - Okama-San (talk) 13:34, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Because that sentence says "written while the author was chief of NASA's systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center." That's more informative for a start, anything else is redundant. But go ahead and put it back if you want, but you'll need to move the wikilink to the first mention of NASA. Doug Weller talk 15:18, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blumrich's title