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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.physics
Subject: Re: The "Perpetual Motion" Machine
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 17:57:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 17:57:59 1985
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Summary: 

>Knee-jerk skeptics who dismiss ideas that don't happen to correspond to
>their own beliefs would probably have laughed at Copernicus for suggesting
>that the earth was not the center of the universe, or Columbus for suggesting
>that the earth wasn't flat.

A:  "They LAUGHED at the Wright brothers, and said they were crazy!"
B:  "Yeah."
A:  "They LAUGHED at Columbus, and said he was crazy!"
B:  "Yeah."
A:  "They LAUGHED at the William Feghoot, and said he was crazy!"
B:  "Yeah.  Wait a minute, who was William Feghoot?"
A:  "He was my uncle.  He was crazy."
-- 
"I'm the only President you've got" -- Lyndon Johnson

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