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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.bio,sci.chem,misc.education
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - NewScientist Article
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 04:41:02 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <klclauss.4.723351158@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec11.024139.12143@dmp.csiro.au> <1992Dec13.195740.10476@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec13.195740.10476@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >Do they mention that I invented the crackpot index? Probably not. Yet
- >another brilliant idea of mine leading to no tangible fame. :-)
- >Maybe I should write a letter to the editor.
-
- Well, heck; I'm still waiting for the galleys of my
- explanation of why Corky said that all of the remaining
- sheathing stones were at the bottom of Khufu's pyramid and
- not the top (it involves soliton waves and quantum
- shlomodynamics and assumes that he really saw it that way
- and wasn't just being his usual, ignorant self).
-
- >Anyway, in answer to your question, most of the crackpot index stuff
- >appeared on sci.physics, and all of the postings are apparently archived
- >somewhere. I don't know where and couldn't care in the least, since for
- >the most part the idea of archiving newsgroups is like tape-recording
- >all the conversations in an insane asylum.
-
- And throwing out those involving a doctor...
-
- >I'll send you the official crackpot index.
-
- Rather like having an official list of underground publications.
-
- --Blair
- "I'm paid too well to be an NSA mole."
-