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Old 29-March-2008, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by grant hutchison View Post
It's difficult to know if Warren Platts will be pleased or irritated to learn that a variant of his ATM idea has been submitted and accepted for publication in Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica by Poveda & Lara: The Exo-planetary System of 55 Cancri and the Titius-Bode Law.

Grant Hutchison
WOW!! And a Mexican journal no less!

But first let me say it's great to hear from you again Dr. Hutchison! How goes it in the land of Hume?

I knew if I sat around, I was going to get scooped. It only took three months. We should have jumped on it Tony! There goes the Nobel. Oh well. . . .

It's a nice paper, (skimmed so far--detailed comments soon to follow) but I don't think they plagiarized me because they left out the most important part: the Monte Carlo simulations. They haven't shown that the 55 Cancri distribution is statistically significant.

But hey, I must say that the best thing of all is that it's nice to know that I'm not the only completely crazy person on the planet!

Edit: Dr. Hutchison, I couldn't help noticing you started this thread in the mainstream astronomy section. Thanks for the compliment!
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Last edited by Warren Platts; 20-April-2008 at 02:54 PM. Reason: remove rude comment regarding Scotland, an American comedian, and felt production--sorry :)
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