On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Remi Cornwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > 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!
