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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: numerous responses
Message-ID: <343@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:23:26 1985
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References: <438@imsvax.UUCP> <686@hou2g.UUCP>
Reply-To: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Summary: 

In article <686@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K) writes:
>Anyone care to nominate Ted Holden for the position
>of "Don Black" of net.origins?  At least his arguments
>hold together about as well...
>
>
>			"PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"
>          
>				Scott J. Berry
>				ihnp4!hou2g!scott

Sounds good. 

It would be nice to get out of this pseudoscience phase and
get into something a little more realistic. Anyone got any
topics?

Anyone heard anything more on the extinction periodicity
that Raup and Sepkoski (1984,Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.A.S.,vol.81,
p.801)? 

				P.M.Pincha-Wagener

To paraphrase S.Chase --
"To condem science is to forget the gardens made green by
desalinization of sea water,
while to idealize science is to forget the horrors of
Hiroshima."