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In article <1gpgvqINNhk9@news.cerf.net> eidetics@nic.cerf.net (Eidetics Int'l) writes:

>As there have been a fair number of comments concerning the Dr. Beter Audio
>Letter #64 transcript which was posted here in sci.space.shuttle by my
>"co-conspirator" [...]

I've got a couple of questions of my own...

(1) If the U.S. is so sophisticated that we can make clones or replicants of
    dead astronauts and have them fool their family and friends, how come 
    we can't detect and destroy these 'cosmospheres' or at least come up with
    a countermeasure?

(2) How does the theory of the shuttle Columbia getting blown up hold up after
    we've seen not just four launches (as the audio letter implied) of the
    Columbia but at least a dozen, plus another three dozen launches of 
    shuttles?  What advancement allowed us to counter the cosmospheres that 
    shot down the original?

It sounds like it was a cute conspiracy to begin with, but later events have
long since proved Beter to be delusional, at best, about what was going on.
I suspect that he's actually laughing in the grave at all the attention his
'audio letters' are receiving years down the line.

Oh, well...it's more entertaining than the neverending DC-X flamewar.
-- 
Matthew Thomas DeLuca
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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