Jeffrey Gortatowsky
Location: Redondo Beach, CA. USA Certification Level: L2 NAR Club Memberships: NAR, SCRA, ROC Favorite Rockets: The Launch Pad Osiris Biography: I was a child of the 1960's and the dawning of the space-age. Aerospace and Astronomy were my passions then and still are to this day. Back then Model Rocketry was cool. Even science was cool. In the mid-70's I joined the Air Force and my rocketry went dormant for a while.
Fast forward to 1996. I moved to southern California (from Rochester NY) and I became a B.A.R. I was very active in ROC (NAR #538) from 1998 to 2002. In 2003/4 things changed professionally and again my rocketry went into storage. In 2010 things changed again, and rocketry came out of storage. So maybe I am a Born Again and Again Rocketeer. :)
I live in Southern CA with my wife and 6 wonderful kitties. I am a software architect specializing in Java and open source based web scale architectures.
Other activities I enjoy are Wooden R/C Gliders, Astronomy, live theater, fine dining, cocktails, and wine tasting.
I am a scientific skeptic believing in the scientific method and in critical thinking. I am a PROUD atheist. Believing in a god makes absolutely no sense. It's a relic from a long ago time and IMO is intellectually rediculous. I can not understand anyone who thinks the idea of god is different from Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. I have been sadden and angered as the dawning of the 70's , accelerating into the 80's, and dominating in the 90's people started rejecting science and critical thinking. Instead they want to believe in post-modernist fairytales and self-help reality.
Religion and post modernist views have, and will, doom the USA to a third world country as the 21st century progresses. We used to lead the world. Now thanks to an entire generation that thinks christianity is real, and thinks quantum mechanics exists at a non-quantum level, we are simply a society in intellectual decline. Rome. Greece. USA... all the same. Sad as science is so intrisically beautiful, and the idea of a god is so backwards, simplistic, and prehistoric. :(
Clubs: ROC and SCRA
Favorite Quote: "(Scientific) Skepticism is not a set of beliefs, it is a set of methods for asking questions about reality." -- Doctor Steven Novella
Club Home Page: http://www.rocstock.org RocketReviews.com Pages: What You Can Do
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