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- From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hoagland? What's the deal?
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:36:11 GMT
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- In article <1hk5mlINN34t@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes...
- >In article <Bzp1ur.9Hv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, 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"?
- >
- >Well, let's see now:
- > 1) It really WAS a face once, but it's eroded since it was built;
- > 2) Well, it's not really shaped like a face, but it was designed so that,
- > from orbit, it would LOOK like a face.
- > 3) Maybe the "pyramids" don't look like pyramids at two-meter resolution,
- > but if we could look at them at 2-centimeter resolution, they'd
- > obviously be artifacts;
- > 4) (This one's for the innumerates out there) But, given the locations of
- > the "pyramids," Hoagland's come up with LOTS of interesting
- > correlations. They MUST have been put where they are intentionally!
- >Need anybody say more?
-
- The point of my question "Why inconclusive" was that the previous poster
- implies that the _new_ images will be inconclusive. They haven't even
- been obtained yet.
-
- It isn't good science to make a claim before having _evidence_, is it?
-
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
- >
- >Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- >understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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- >organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- >hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-
- Jim Graham
-
- -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
- Neither do they speak for me.
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