>From Mr. Berry: >> >> In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw >> airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to >> happen now. So they've arranged to make things like runways, to put fires >> along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, >> with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo >> sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the >> airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It >> looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes >> land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the >> apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing >> something essential, because the planes don't land. > > I don't know, I have heard so much about this cargo cult people, maybe the > news of them has drawn in enough scientists, documentary makers and > sightseers that their goal has manifested over the years!
fyi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
