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- From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
- Subject: Re: Hoagland? What's the deal?
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:04:40 GMT
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- In article <roelle.725121359@uars_mag>, roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes...
- >graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM) writes:
- >
- >>In article <roelle.724974838@uars_mag>, roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes...
- >>>
- >>>Even when the inconclusive images are released there would be
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>>statements made that they had been "defocused" to hide the (Choose
- >
- >>>Curt Roelle
- >
- >>Why "inconclusive"?
- >
- >Inconclusive from the point of view of those that would have to shell
- >out $1 for every $100 bet. Given that an image clearly shows a pile
- >of boulders what's to stop the propagation of a new theory, such as
- >destruction of the Martian Sphinx by derilect Russian Cosmospheres
- >left on autopilot, or that it was purposely defaced by the Mars people
- >who have since gone underground into their hollow planet? Are those
- >boulders or are they stones?
- >
- >Of course this is an exaggeration -- to make a point. In short,
- >you cannot convince all of the people even some of the time.
-
- True. But hopefully, MO isn't being done to satisfy the paranoid among
- us.
-
- At the very least, better images will give _science_ a stronger foothold
- to _deny_ that the images are anything but natural.
-
- Of course, they may show otherwise.
-
- But, regardless of the outcome, who cares what the newager's and other
- wanna-believes think?
-
- At least someone will finally have real data that backs up one claim
- or the other (assuming MO actually gets the images).
-
- Jim Graham
-
- -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
- Neither do they speak for me.
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