"altheim" <altheim@freeuk.com> wrote:

"DrPostman" <Looky@mysig.foremail> wrote:

"altheim" <altheim@freeuk.com> in accordance with The Prophecy
scribed: 

"Ugly Bob" <ugly_bob42@hotmail.com> wrote:

"researcher" <crbjlrnld@yahoo.com> wrote:

A Definition of "UFO Skeptic"

Someone that is fundamentally in denial and has a mind closed
like a steel trap.

Alternate definition:
Someone that is being used by the Government or other special
interest group
to deliberately lie about UFOs or make up fake UFO stories to
help cover up the truth.

Any Comments on this?

 Well, it's good that you're interested in the factual data and
 have no preconceived notions...

All technology was once based on a preconceived notion.

Wrong.  Most technology is based upon tried and true methods, and
previous understandings of technology.

<ahem> I'm not normally one to embrace pedantry but in
this case I will indulge:

Before anyone can apply their "tried and true methods"
they must first have an idea (notion) to apply those methods
on.

You should try to embrace something you can get your hands on. Anyway, 
it's pretty funny that you thought you said something that corrected or 
disputed what he said.

Postulate...experiment...refine...experiment...refine...

A tried and true method. 

One day some guy said "I could mount my longbow on a stick with some kind 
of trigger, and then I could aim it better and I wouldn't have to hold 
the string back." After a hundred years or so of experimenting and 
refining, that evolved into something that was expected to end war 
forever because it was such a superweapon.

Meanwhile, on another planet, some thing said "I could mount my 
antilawsofphysics device on my car and go to Earth and stick things up 
humans' assholes!"