Re: Weird passage in a book



On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:35:42 GMT, "Algomeysa2"
<Algomeysa2NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, in part:

>I'd say "some" are into wishful thinking.

>Let's use a little Occam's Razor here.

>You're in the atmosphere of the only place in the universe that's known to
>be full of life.

>You know there's air, because your balloon can get that high.

>If there are microbes in the air, doesn't it seem rather more likely they
>came in some fashion from the planet's surface, rather than from Outer
>Space?

Well, he *did* say it was a *weird passage*. And Gwynne Dyer's
_political_ views are weird enough too... recently, he asked why the
U.S. is trying to provoke China into a war, in an article in a Canadian
magazine.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
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