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Re: Listening to Leonids



Thomas Jefferson claimed in 1809 that people would rather "believe
that Yankee professors would lie, than that stones would fall from
heaven."

Clearly, meteors themselves don't exist, because we 'KNOW' that there
are no stones IN the sky that could fall!

And NOW people are claiming that these none existent things are
making NOISE!? ;-)

At 4:02 PM -0800 on 11/27/01, William Beaty wrote


This is another of those phenomena where the "self-fulfilling prophecy"
effect probably comes into play. If a phenomenon is thought to be
impossible, then anyone who witnesses it must be insane or something...
and therefore any genuine witnesses would tend to avoid coming forwards to
be ridiculed. Whenever our first impulse is scornful laughter, there is a
chance that the evidence has been warped by fear of ridicule.

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