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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
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- Subject: Re: "The Universe of MOTION" (crackpot index)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct16.000847.8147@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 00:08:47 GMT
- References: <Oct.15.08.35.20.1992.24954@paul.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct15.190145.18782@galois.mit.edu> <1bkpg2INNmt1@smaug.West.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1bkpg2INNmt1@smaug.West.Sun.COM> Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
- >jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >
- >>I want the index to be easy to compute. In fact, what I'd really like
- >>would be an index that could be computed automatically.
- >
- >Ask and ye shall receive. Just before reading your posting, I completed
- >just such a program. My simplified rules are:
- ...
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- >2.14634 Paul Budnik
- >2.56065 Steve Carlip
- >3.18687 Benjamin Weiner
- >3.81494 RING, DAVID WAYNE
- >4.23726 Cameron Randale Bass
- >5.13109 Douglas G. Danforth
- >5.66667 Tom Van Flandern
- >5.79702 Robert Firth
- >6.61422 Leigh Palmer
- >6.66667 Dr. Norman J. LaFave <lafave@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov>
- >7.21700 Ric Peregrino
- >7.60326 Mcirvin
- >7.89399 Matt Austern
- >8.72341 Bronis Vidugiris
- >8.75751 Daryl McCullough
- >9.08969 Hartmut Frommert
- >9.80049 Jim Carr
- >10.4906 John C. Baez
- >10.5006 hporopudas@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- >10.6189 Richard M. Mathews
- >11.1111 snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- >11.8265 SCOTT I CHASE
- >15.0000 Matthew P Wiener
- >15.4365 Blair P. Houghton
- >18.1966 Mcinnes B T (Dr)
- >20.1698 Terry Bollinger
- >25.6695 Jack Sarfatti
-
- Obviously, word choice and simple syntactic considerations are not
- sufficient to discern true crackpots.
-
- dale bass
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