On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:24:35 -0400, "Jimmie D"
wrote:

I agree and like your flatland anaolgy. I think if we are not careful we can
be as narrow-minded about the nature of the universe as those who thought
the only elements were earth wind water and fire or Earth was the center of
the universe. We are not that much closer to the truth than they were.

Hi Jimmie,

Their contemporaries thought that trees could enter into their dreams
and explain the mysteries of life - hence the legacy of "knock on
wood" which a lot of this ersatz hero worship correspondence is so
like.

Let's see, a link to a National Enquirer story headlines a story about
a surgeon who grafts a pig's head onto Paris Hilton, and the poster
suddenly crows like a medical authority:
"Amazing how Lister and Pasteur were just so many
country bumpkin scientists!
If Professor Christiaan Barnard was such a whiz
with heart transplants, he would have done this years ago."

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC