<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Christofer C. Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christofer.c.bell@gmail.com">christofer.c.bell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Robert Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbmyersusa@gmail.com" target="_blank">rbmyersusa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ed Greshko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ed.Greshko@greshko.com" target="_blank">Ed.Greshko@greshko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
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<div>On 07/08/2010 11:56 AM, Robert Myers wrote:<br>
> You don't know me any more than you know if there is extraterrestrial<br>
> life.<br>
</div>I can, based on observations and other factors, speculate as to the<br>
chances of the existence of extraterrestrial life. I can suspect that<br>
there is/is not extraterrestrial life. Based on the evidence you've<br>
contributed I've formed an opinion and a supposition.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>You have chosen to criticize me, rather than the facts I propose. This is the end of our conversation.<br></div></div></blockquote>
</div></div><div><br>"If you think you know what you are talking about, perhaps you would
consider a fixed-fee contract on a perpetual motion machine. ... but I wouldn't be hiring you to manage anything." -- Robert Myers<br><br>Just like you do. Now shut up and go away, troll.<br></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Do you think that name-calling is an acceptable form of communication?</div><div><br></div><div>A poster asked for something that cannot, even in theory, be delivered.</div><div><br></div><div>An army of people equally ignorant has come to his defense.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The "wisdom of crowds?" Suppose you took a vote at your high school as to the value of pi? At the university I attended, no one would have fallen for it. At my high school, I'm not even confident as to how my home room section (probably the brightest people in a city of a million) would have responded. Ignorance is everywhere. Is that what you want to defend?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert.</div><div><br></div></div>