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Old 22-May-2006, 07:59 PM
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In the now-closed EU thread I asked sol88:
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Do you subscribe to upriver's fallacy that whenever mainstream scientists mention electric discharges, this is evidence in support of EU ideas?
Considering the OP, the answer should be "yes!".

What is so EU about the idea that ions from the Solar Wind exchange electron with molecules from the comet?
We have known for a while that there is some interaction between comets and Solar Wind.
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