Exactly. And yet you refuse to "see" that. Dfrank, You said we are visual creatures. I said that we LIKE to have the visual... But it by no means is compelling evidence. The eyes are notoriously unreliable.

You said that if the visual doesn't meet up with ... ALLLL the other available data... That that must mean that ALLLL the other data is wrong?!
That is totally backwards from reality.

Oh, and because there is a rule that says I must be nice
doesn't mean I have to be nice. It just means Ill have to accpet the price to be mean.

In just THIS very short thread- you have all the answers you need to see why there is no pond.
Why they went to look at rocks.
Why there is no conspiracy.
if at this point you continue to talk about ponds, puddles and conspiracies in any manner that is NOT an intelligent question, one can only assume that you have no interest whatsoever in knowing the truth...
You are only interested in the pretty picture you paint inside your mind.