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From: jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (James Wilbur Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flat Earth drivel: provocateur unmasked!
Message-ID: <22223@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 87 11:30:25 GMT
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In article <22171@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> I wrote:
>In article <27496COK@PSUVMA> COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (R. W. Clark to the masses) writes:
>>I still believe that platygeanists are not personally stupid, but possessed of
>>an incredibly stupid belief.  
>
>Actually, I think it's more likely that they (the ones on the net, anyway) get 
>a boot out of baiting people, then watching with glee as the indignant 
>counter-flames roll in...

FLASH!!!! Confirming evidence from sci.astro! 

->> Ray Lubinsky
->  our so-called "platygean" hero

->Newsgroups: sci.astro
->Subject: Re: Leap Second (how often?)
->Message-ID: <9921@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
->Date: 16 Dec 87 00:44:13 GMT
->Reply-To: troly@CS.UCLA.EDU (Bret Jolly)
->
->In article <2124@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>  (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
->[some stuff deleted for brevity]
->>
->>Anyone out there know?  Is the slow-down of the Earth's rotation rate regular
->>enough to permit a formula for the precise addition of extra leap seconds,
->
->No.
->       
->>or do the guys in Paris have to keep tabs on the current value and add extra
->>leap seconds as needed?
->
->Yes. The slowdown (and polar motion) is measured by quasar VLBI measurements.
->Bret Jolly, Mathemagus

Note the conspicuous absence of flamage regarding the rampant round-earth
assumptions in the above excerpt!  Why, one even gets the impression that
Mr. Jolly has swallowed the conventional dogma hook, line, and sinker!

For shame, Bret...you could have at least used an alias...

You get an A+ for creativity, though...your success at fanning the flames
suggests a promising career as a Nova Criminal.  You will be contacted;
keep up the good work!

-- Jim Lewis
   Nova Conspiracy, alt.flame division

"The basic nova mechanism is very simple: Always create as many insoluble
conflicts as possible and always aggravate existing conflicts . . . 
. . . it is precisely the work of the Nova Mob to see that they remain
in present time form, to create and aggravate the conflicts that lead to
the explosion of a planet that is to nova"
                                  -- William S. Burroughs