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sterner@sel.hep.upenn.edu "Kevin Sterner" writes:

> I think you'd better read the original post again.  There is nothing
> in the Swami's post to indicate anything but his belief that lunar
> vulcanism is the source of meteors, and his belief that this is the
> accepted explanation.

I did. I read it again. And in his little anecdote (it seems to me) it was
the scientists who refused to believe in rocks falling from the sky and
would not accept that they existed until they had a theory (vulcanism
on the moon). As I added later, some people wouldn't recognise an irony
unless it fell off the ironying board (hint - that was a joke).

The Swami, in his gentle way, said "Excuse me, what if..", and everyone
shouted "YOU'RE WRONG!!", and he is still smiling. Even his modest proposal
of a Flat Earth was an innocent way of starting a little discussion, but
instead it brought down a shower of invective. Ah well.

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