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From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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Subject: Re: DNA for interstellar messages
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Date: 6 Jul 88 09:45:41 GMT
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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)
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