(October 3, 2011 at 7:32 pm)padraic Wrote: On appealing to authority; There was a real NASA scientist who wrote a book called "The Spaceships Of Ezekiel".
Quote:The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 - February 10, 2002) written while he was chief of NASA's systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spaceships_of_Ezekiel
Maybe he'd read Von Daniken's books.

Is it wrong to appeal to authority? If I want to know about air craft, some of the best people to talk to are surely air pilots? I have 'faith' (for want of a better word) that if they see an aircraft, they will have a good idea of what it is or what it isn't.
I've found a CNN news conference with our pilot buddies for anyone interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-8696Yo...00&index=9
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
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