Love-Hate Relationship With Debunkers/Skeptics by Greg Boone

I have a love-hate relationship with debunkers/skeptics.

I enjoy a lively debate with a skeptic but loathe the pitiful and sophomoric
rantings of the debunkers.

Yet even the debunkers offer good sport now and then.

On a daily basis I would have to field responses when debunkers/skeptics would
barge into our chat room on AOL and invalidate anyone who had an alternate
viewpoint.
Believe you me, I�ve got snappy comebacks to every debunker pile of bs they can
dish out and it would frustrate them so to the point you could see the frothing
of mouths via the computer screen ( maybe I should make a �Frothing At The Mouth
Debunker Emoticon� )

Granted the debunker/skeptics had only one argument I could grant them credence:
Where�s the physical proof?

My only response would be that publicly we�ve got no physical proof yet the
documents gleaned by courageous researchers and the daring public as well as
reporters and whistleblowers are far beyond the 51% required in a court of law
targeting our government and private industries as hoarding the physical proof
for their own purposes. If true then the physical proof they�re looking for is
what they collect their email with and use to enter into chat rooms and forums
to debunk that which they�re using.

Recently I got into a debate with a top researcher at JPL on another listserv
focusing on space technology. He�s anti-ufo, anti-alternate energy, basically
anti-anything that doesn�t make him feel comfortable that someone else may be
smarter.

He ranted on about how anti-gravity and zero point energy were pipedreams and
how anyone entertaining the ideas were UFO nuts and such and then proceeded to
support his point that anti grav and zero point wouldn�t work in outer space
because outer space is  a total vacuum with nothing to �push� on.

Granted I�m no rocket scientist nor physicist but his statement did irk me and I
told him so because from my viewpoint outer space isn�t a total vacuum because
the last time I looked someone had stuck a Universe in it.

He shut up after that and his friends tell me he�s still steaming.

Then a short time later one of them sent me this link to an article at space.com
focusing on misconceptions we have about space and that it�s truly not a total
vacuum.

Correct me if I�m wrong but we found it funny.