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- From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
- Subject: Re: Let's cut the crap, Ted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.040052.5085@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov15.081014.21876@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <113@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:00:52 GMT
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- In article <113@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.081014.21876@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
- > cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
- >
- >> There are zillions of flaws in your/Velikovsky's/whoever's 'theory', but
- >> let's concentrate on two.
- >
- >> 1. How did Earth stay in one piece inside the Roche limit?
- >> 2. How did life survive Earth's journey to its present orbit?
- >
- >There's a really simple answer to both questions, and it's the same answer:
- >
- >I haven't got the slightest idea.
-
- So once again Ted, since there is no evidence for the attenuation of
- gravity, since there is no known mechanism for producing it, since there
- is no known way by which we could get from Saturn to here without freezing,
- since (despite your fascination with weightlifters) there is no reason to
- believe it is necessary, since your interpretation of myths is somewhat
- suspect, and since we have a perfectly good model now....
-
- why should we believe you?
-
- I have no problem with you (or anyone) saying "I don't know" every now
- and then. The problem is that your claim is so unusual that you are
- going to have to be able to answer those questions before anyone will
- take you seriously. They seem to me to be fairly fundamental.
-
- >Ted Holden
- >HTE
-
- C Frog
-