> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 02:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America
> 
> A few months ago ex-Brinneller (...at least I think he's no 
> longer here...) 
> Adrian Hon posted a rather angry note to the Culture list 
> about the extreme 
> stupidity of the visitors to his website's forums.  He wanted 
> to know how 
> people could actually be dumb enough to believe that, among 
> other things, a 
> large image of a human face existed on the surface of Mars.

I think that you can simultaneously be a skeptic -and- have a willingness to 
believe[0] without comprimising your intelligence.

-jeffrey "Bat Boy Join Up Against Bin Laden!" miller-

[0] willingness to believe being, in this case, having far more to do with Occam than 
Mulder..
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