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- From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.155503.10761@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:55:03 GMT
- References: <1h3059INNq8n@news.cerf.net>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- In article <1h3059INNq8n@news.cerf.net>, eidetics@nic.cerf.net (Eidetics Int'l) writes:
- > 8) One source that you may want to use for your research is "Aviation Week and
- > Space Technology". This weekly industry journal has reported every shuttle
- > flight in great detail. They go to great lengths to find and report on
- > secret or classified data. You will find not a hint about the secret flight.
- >
- > THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT THEMSELVES, OR AFRAID TO SAY ANYTHING.
-
- Umm -- have you ever read it? If so, you'd know that neither alternative
- makes any sense at all.
-
- Before I engage in further debate, let me ask just one question: what
- evidence will persuade you that you're wrong? I'm perfectly serious --
- you have a theory, which virtually everyone else here disagrees with.
- Clearly, either you're wrong or we are. But for every objection that's
- been raised here, you say that either people are lying, or covering things
- up. So -- what would it take to convince you?
-
- To be fair, I should answer the same question. I'll find your story credible
- if any of a number of things happen. (a) Someone publicly demonstrates any
- one of the technological miracles you've described (cosmospheres, electro-
- gravitic whatsits, cloned or otherwise-replicated people, etc.) (b) an
- official who was involved in the coverup or the plot admits it publicly,
- and produces some documentary evidence. (c) the release, via the Freedom
- of Information Acts, of substantive documentation of any of this; (d) photos,
- from a lunar orbiter, of (the wreckage of?) military bases on the moon.
-
- You're asking us to prove a negative, a notoriously difficult task,
- especially when you reject any and all evidence. We're asking you to
- prove a positive, which is much easier. Do you have any hard evidence?
- (References to previous issues of the AUDIO LETTER aren't evidence, of
- course.)
-