[meteorite-list] Strange Martian Surface Feature

From: MrX3010_at_aol.com <MrX3010_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:25 2004
Message-ID: <18b.4636fca.29b81b66_at_aol.com>

In regard to the comment about Hoagland being an alleged "nutcase" I have to
ask why? Why is it that someone is a nutcase when he or she looks to the
extraordinary in hopes of expanding human knowledge? Was Gallileo a
"nutcase"? Yes, he was in his day a nut case, a heretic and in his own time
an outcast because he chose "unpopular" realms of knowledge to delve into.
Realms of knowledge that we today know of as science. Why risk being an
outcast? The pursuit of knowledge. If we rest on what we have learned and
think we are experts, if we sit by and point fingers at everyone who does not
hold the same view of the world or universe the same as we do then we are
confined to an infinite loop of blindness. Before we point fingers and laugh
or make fun of someone simply because someone else tells us he or she is a
nutcase perhaps we should look more closely at that persons research. In
time we may find that our place in our perceived universe may not be as
special as we might like it to be.
Received on Wed 06 Mar 2002 08:24:54 PM PST