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- From: Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World"
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:44:37 -0600
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- taranr wrote:
- > =========="Wm G. Smith", 6/24/96==========
- >
- > There's something I just don't get about the UFO people:
- >
- > Whenever confronted with a phenomenon that has not been perfectly explained,
- > why do they
- > insist on believing the most incredible explanation?
-
- Bob Tarantino's reply:
- > First of all, to believe we are alone in the universe is pretty laughable.
- > Secondly, to believe that is impossible to get here from there is to believe
- > that what we understand about physics is what we are limited to. Also
-
- But we can't postulate *specific* physical breakthroughs that, for instance,
- eliminate the gigantic energy penalty or distance penalty to travel so far.
-
- > laughable. So tell me, what is incredible? To believe that when in 1992,
- > hundreds of sightings of a boomerang shaped object were made around the WORLD,
- > and often described as having a wingspan of 600 feet (the largest wingspan of
- > any plane is that of the Lockheed Galaxy which is around 220 feet), and having
- > lights that appear as portholes and in many instances disappears, that it was
- > mass hysteria? Swamp gas perhaps? Dozens of people describing the same thing
- > from around the world, dozens of sighings in a single night that encompases an
- > entire state, and the same stories time and time again, and all the witnesses
- > are lying? I think some are lying to themselves. The evidence is the
- > overwhelming amount of corroboration. That is undeniable.
-
- Corroboration of a 2-day-old moon, is what it looked like to me. Which direction
- were these sightings in the sky? We already know the time was spot-on.
-
- Jim
-