"Andrew H. Carter" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:38:41 -0700, Arri London
> > scribbled some thoughts:
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>
> >Why is it speculation? The spectroscopy is fairly straightforward.
>
> Just like cholesterol (bad type) is said to be bad, now
> studies have shown it to be necessary for proper brain
> function.

That's always been known; I learnt that in first year biochemistry some
time ago. NOthing new there. It is the excess that is bad, not the
molecule.

So one could say, and I will always hold true,
> man at best is a moron. Were it not so, then why is it
> that:
>
> * The helmets of the US military and German military have
> been swapped after the war, each believing the other to be
> better at stopping bullets.

Superstition.

>
> * Product fashions have gone in circles: cars went from
> electric, to round corners, to square corners, to angular
> corners, to roundish corners and now to electric cars again.

Because there is nothing new under the sun? Something to that effect is
found in many if not all of the ancient scriptures.

>
> As soon as an idea/theory is formed, someone later forms
> another one to debunk it, or to shed light on another
> possibility.

Yes. That is the way science works.

Case in point the Clovis point people being
> thought t9o have come from the Bering land bridge, but an
> older site (Topper Site in Aiken, S. Carolina) has an
> identical point, as does one in France IIRC.

A.) There is nothing new under the sun.
B.) Great minds think alike.
>
> The only truths: death and taxes, all else is speculation.

No no no. You have it all wrong. It's: Nothing exists except atoms and
empty space; everything else is opinion.
(Diogenes Laertius, although often attributed to Democritus)
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