Hi list, I haven't seen this book yet. Can you tell me whether the author claims any of the meteorites have weird properties? This is the folklore I'm studying.
Thanks, Chris On 11/18/05, Charles O'Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to admit that I can thank good old Erich Von Daniken for initiating > me into the realm of the skeptic. I fell for his "Chariots of the Gods" > nonsense hook line and sinker, and I was just beginning my engineering > career. What changed my opinion? An article in (of all things) Playboy Mag. > > Playboy hired the then (almost) unknown Timothy Ferris to interview Eric for > the "Playboy Interview" column. Timothy virtually exposed all of Eric's > wacko ideas and his lack of empirical evidence (Eric actually made up most > of it up). I was astonished that I could have fallen for stuff like that. > Thus began my sub-career as a skeptic and my requirement for empirical > evidence of "claims". And I still read Playboy for its scientific articles. > > Chuck > Meeting Chair > Ottawa RASC > http://www.ottawa.rasc.ca/astronomy/earth_craters/index.html > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Axel Emmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: Stones From The Stars: The > UnsolvedMysteries of Meteorites > > > > Oh yes! > > That gave me flashback... wow... still dizzy from it ;-))) > > > > Back in the fifties to late sixties there was several hypes created around > > some books that were written by pseudo-scientists like Immanuel Velikovsky > > or even a reporter named Erich Von Daniken. > > > <snip>> > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
