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Old 04-June-2007, 03:13 AM
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On the other hand, I remember watching the TV from JPL when the Voyager data from Uranus started coming back. The scientists were practically dancing and singing, "Everything we know is wrong! Everything we know is wrong!" How many people in other professions are so happy to be mistaken?
Also, they were proved wrong by a machine. If some snot nosed grad student walks in, points at your chalk board and says, "Hey, that's wrong."
I think your liable to see quite a different reaction.
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