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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "thinbluemime"  wrote   
      
   > May be the Fringe science should be submitted for review to Popular   
   > Mechanics, like the science of Lost.   
      
   There's science in 'Lost'??   
      
   I would definitely not look to Popular Mechanics for something like this.   
   There's a reason the word 'science' does not appear in its name. Don't get   
   me wrong, it's not a bad magazine -- but it's all about technology and   
   engineering, not science. If you want to look at the kind of 'fringe' ideas   
   that come up on shows like this, you really need to ask people who are used   
   to dealing with abstract, fundamental, controversial, only half-understood   
   concepts in basic, pure, theoretical science -- like string-theory   
   physicists, for example.   
      
   Expecting quality discussion of such high-level ideas from Popular Mechanics   
   is like expecting a masterful, easily-understood lecture on the application   
   of differential Riemannian geometry to general relativity, and its   
   implications for the cosmological origin and fate of the universe, from a   
   fifth-grade algebra teacher. Sure, it's *possible* you could find someone   
   there smart enough to tackle the subject -- but why in the Virgo   
   Supercluster would you look there in the first place, instead of to the kind   
   of people who deal with such things for a living?   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
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   cripples, you know! [looks over at guy in a wheelchair] They didn't, really.   
      
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