"RichD" <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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On Oct 16, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote:

Barney and Betty Hill were privy to advanced
secrets, but never talked...

How easily fooled you are, Rich.

Thanks, Sam, that made my day.

You are welcome. Did you hear Joe Pyne interviewing
Barney and Betty Hill on a call in radio program
back in the 60s?

No, unfortunately, I was too busy tuning in
to Art Bell.... did I miss anything?

I'm not sure Art Bell was on the air back then. I called in.. asked
a question about sounds. Of course, the Hills couldn't come up with
any sounds.

I'm surprised... it should be easy to gin up UFO
sounds... like a helicopter or something.

Or they could have said:  in a vacuum,
no one can hear you scream...

I don't know why people are so willing to believe these things.

Because it's more fun than boring old science...
wondering and speculating is more exciting than knowing.

Marvin Minsky once wrote an essay: "Why AI can
never win".  His point was that certain tasks seemingly
require human intelligence, beyond machine capability...
like chess, for instance... until a program beats a chess
master, and people say "oh well, chess is obviously
simple, that's not real intelligence, just a trick."

It's the same type of thing - people want to believe
in unsolvable mysteries, they want unanswerable riddles.
Human nature, what can ya do?

http://www.michaelshermer.com/weird-things/

--
Rich

And Wormley is the first in line for a riddle.