Posted on 10/31/2025 11:06:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Adds some data to Tom Van Flandren’s exploded planted theory.

Oh man! That thing is way past its maintenance checkpoints.
Scientists are never wrong. Until they say they are wrong. Then it’s OK because they then become right and all their theories should be honored again.
That thing is way past its maintenance checkpoints.
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Yes its been waiting for a very long time, but hopefully we’ll et there in time to fix it right as rain.
Scientists don't claim to never be wrong, that's the exclusive domain of politicians.
Science is a method, not a body of knowledge, and it's the best way to study physical phenomena.
Yeah, exactly. Alas, I believe TVF’s website’s gone now, but probably survives in the Internet Archive. Someone was keeping it alive for at least few years after he passed. I can’t remember the domain name at this point.
Hmm, here’s a reference to his book about the EPH:
https://archive.org/details/darkmattermissin0000vanf
Oh, okay, his website’s back and lookin’ all spruced up:
“was already active during the very dawn of the Solar System.”
Is this a pun or a metaphor
Meta Research
In Memory of Dr. Thomas C Van Flandern
Founder and President of Meta Research 1940 - 2009
Unprovable theories for $1,000 Alex
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