To: blam
"If Baillie is right, history has overlooked probably the single most important explanation for the intermittent progress of civilisation. Worse, our modern confidence in benign skies is foolhardy, and our failure to appreciate the constant danger of comet "swarms" is the result of a myopic trust in a mere 200 years of "scientific" records."
Homer: Oh Lisa, there's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978, when the Hall Of Records was mysteriously blown away!
2 posted on
09/24/2002 2:55:09 PM PDT by
Djarum
To: Djarum
42 posted on
11/04/2007 11:35:48 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
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