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Old 13-November-2008, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher View Post
Being published does not mean being accepted.

Anybody with some good facts and ideas can be published. That does not mean those facts and ideas have merit when it comes to accepted science.

The whole idea of being published is to put out the idea to see if it has legs. Many do not.
The idea that Ganymede has maintained a fixed-size is so absurd and so against the mainstream that it has never been published.
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