Xref: utzoo sci.bio:1309 sci.astro:2362 sci.philosophy.tech:657 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!qmc-cs!flash From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.astro,sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: DNA for interstellar messages Message-ID: <532@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jul 88 09:45:41 GMT References: <2743@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <2244@ur-tut.UUCP> Sender: root@cs.qmc.ac.uk Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Followup-To: sci.astro Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, U London E1-4NS Lines: 15 or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk In article <2244@ur-tut.UUCP> powi@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Peter Owings) writes: >In article <2743@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> bs_wab@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Bains) writes: >> > Well, I haven't heard anything about this paper, but one scientist >not far from you takes this kind of thing very seriously. I was fortunate >enough to have several conversations with Sir Fred Hoyle when he visited Remember, on this issue (_not_ astronomy) Hoyle is a crank. I'm not saying he's wrong, but he is a crank. I've heard him lecture on it; he misrepresents probability theory in order to show that evolution is impossible. From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk