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Re: Saturn-Like Ring Around the Earth
- To: "Lou Varricchio" <morbius@together.net>, <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
- Subject: Re: Saturn-Like Ring Around the Earth
- From: "RAY D STANFORD" <STARSONG@prodigy.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:37:14 -0500
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Hello List,
This morning Lou Varrichio commented (capitalized words are MY added
emphasis):
-----Original Message-----
From: Lou Varricchio <morbius@together.net>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 6:26 AM
Subject: FYI: Saturn-Like Ring Around the Earth
Subject: Saturn-Like Ring Around the Earth
"FYI: The April 1999 issue of DISCOVER science magazine, p. 20, has a story
about two U.S. scientists PROPOSING that a ring of ejecta by the so-called
K-T impactor created a temporary ring around the Earth whose shadow had a
profound affect on climate change at the end of the Cretaceous. Well, this
isn't a new idea--astronomer John A. O'Keefe, NASA Goddard (retired)
predicted two rings during the K-T and Eocene events. O'Keefe linked this
ring with tektite falls. However, O'Keefe attributed the ring formation to
silicic volcanic eruptions on the Moon. Personally, I'm thrilled to see
O'Keefe VINDICATED in this area!"
When a PROPOSING of something (actually that is nothing but
hypothesis-making) becomes VINDICATION of the proposed hypothesis (of
vindication of anyone's earlier hypothesis that resembles it), then science
is no longer science!
Ray Stanford
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