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- From: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov
- Subject: Re: Ten embarrassed questions about the moon (very long)
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:58:00 GMT
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- In article <BxDGx1.5wz@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes...
- >In article <BxD5Hz.Ewt.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
- >>Henry will probably sneer.....
- >Finally, there is a well-known and well-understood
- >human tendency to remember the unusual and forget the mundane. Yes, odd
- >things sometimes happen at the full moon... but to draw any meaningful
- >conclusions from this, you have to figure in the times when odd things
- >happened without a full moon, or the times when nothing noteworthy happened
- >during a full moon. Coincidences do happen; to establish correlation, you
- >have to look at the non-coincidences too.
- >--
- >MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- > -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Poor Henry, a romantic you are not. :)
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- Dennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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