This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Fred Singer article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Auto-archiving period: 90 days |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article has been
mentioned by multiple media organizations:
|
The
contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to
climate change, which has been
designated as a contentious topic. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page. |
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 14 external links on Fred Singer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 22:07, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 6 external links on Fred Singer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
{{
dead link}}
tag to
http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PSISDG002214000001000076000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yesWhen you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 04:19, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Is this the same "S. F. Singer" who (together with Van Allen and Halvorson) was responsible for the Rockoon? Tony Mach ( talk) 09:29, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
NASA SOUNDING ROCKETS, 1958-1968 - A Historical Summary, NASA SP-4401, 1971, by William R. Corliss "The rockoon concept seems to have been originated by Lt. M. L. (Lee) Lewis during a conversation with S. F. Singer and George Halvorson during the Aerobee firing cruise of the U.S.S. Norton Sound in March 1949. The basic idea is to lift a small sounding rocket high above the dense atmosphere with a large balloon in the Skyhook class. Once enough altitude is attained, the rocket is fired by radio signal straight up through the balloon. The rocket will reach much higher altitudes than it could from the ground. The rockoon has turned out to be a simple, cheap way of getting high-altitude data without special facilities. Many rockoons employing Deacon, Loki, and Hawk rockets were fired between 1952 and 1960. Once satellites and high-altitude sounding rockets became available in adequate numbers, the use of rockoons declined. "James A. Van Allen first put rockoons to practical use when he and his group from the University of Iowa fired several from the Coast Guard Cutter East Wind during its cruise off Greenland in August and September 1952. 41 Van Allen was looking for high-altitude radiation near the magnetic poles and needed a vehicle that could reach well over 80 km (50 mi) with an 11-kg (25-lb) payload and yet still be launched easily from a small ship. The rockoon was the answer." Apparently there was only one S.F. Singer active in astronautics in the 1950s. -- Naaman Brown ( talk) 15:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
The phrase "advocate for climate denial" was removed from the lede by Peter Gulutzan claiming that it was poorly sourced. I restored the material with an appropriate and impeccable reliable source, Inside Climate News, which directly describes the subject as a "climate denialist." Any removal of this longstanding and now well-sourced material will require consensus here. NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 15:31, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
This is trashing the reputation of a distinguished and deceased physicist, whose contributions to physics helped make GPS practical -- and in the editorial name of Wikipedia. Have you people no shame? -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 22:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
References
Someone should take the time to go through the article and update the verb tenses. I just noticed that the section on Global warming is written as though Singer is still alive — i.e., using the present tense instead of the past tense ("conflicts" vs. "conflicted," etc.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcreshkof ( talk • contribs) 02:08, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Fred Singer article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Auto-archiving period: 90 days |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article has been
mentioned by multiple media organizations:
|
The
contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to
climate change, which has been
designated as a contentious topic. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page. |
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 14 external links on Fred Singer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 22:07, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 6 external links on Fred Singer. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
{{
dead link}}
tag to
http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PSISDG002214000001000076000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yesWhen you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 04:19, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Is this the same "S. F. Singer" who (together with Van Allen and Halvorson) was responsible for the Rockoon? Tony Mach ( talk) 09:29, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
NASA SOUNDING ROCKETS, 1958-1968 - A Historical Summary, NASA SP-4401, 1971, by William R. Corliss "The rockoon concept seems to have been originated by Lt. M. L. (Lee) Lewis during a conversation with S. F. Singer and George Halvorson during the Aerobee firing cruise of the U.S.S. Norton Sound in March 1949. The basic idea is to lift a small sounding rocket high above the dense atmosphere with a large balloon in the Skyhook class. Once enough altitude is attained, the rocket is fired by radio signal straight up through the balloon. The rocket will reach much higher altitudes than it could from the ground. The rockoon has turned out to be a simple, cheap way of getting high-altitude data without special facilities. Many rockoons employing Deacon, Loki, and Hawk rockets were fired between 1952 and 1960. Once satellites and high-altitude sounding rockets became available in adequate numbers, the use of rockoons declined. "James A. Van Allen first put rockoons to practical use when he and his group from the University of Iowa fired several from the Coast Guard Cutter East Wind during its cruise off Greenland in August and September 1952. 41 Van Allen was looking for high-altitude radiation near the magnetic poles and needed a vehicle that could reach well over 80 km (50 mi) with an 11-kg (25-lb) payload and yet still be launched easily from a small ship. The rockoon was the answer." Apparently there was only one S.F. Singer active in astronautics in the 1950s. -- Naaman Brown ( talk) 15:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
The phrase "advocate for climate denial" was removed from the lede by Peter Gulutzan claiming that it was poorly sourced. I restored the material with an appropriate and impeccable reliable source, Inside Climate News, which directly describes the subject as a "climate denialist." Any removal of this longstanding and now well-sourced material will require consensus here. NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 15:31, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
This is trashing the reputation of a distinguished and deceased physicist, whose contributions to physics helped make GPS practical -- and in the editorial name of Wikipedia. Have you people no shame? -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 22:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
References
Someone should take the time to go through the article and update the verb tenses. I just noticed that the section on Global warming is written as though Singer is still alive — i.e., using the present tense instead of the past tense ("conflicts" vs. "conflicted," etc.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcreshkof ( talk • contribs) 02:08, 22 June 2022 (UTC)