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"Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "David Langford" <ansible@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> > ANSIBLE 250
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> > PATRICK STEWART's Broadway role as Macbeth drew some highly relevant
> > questions from _Newsweek_'s Nicki Gostin: 'When you're onstage, aren't
> > you worried about weird Trekkie fans in the audience?' _PS:_ 'Oh, come
> > on, that's just a silly thing to say.' _NG:_ 'But they are weird.'
> > _PS:_
> > How many do you know personally? You couldn't be more wrong. Here's
> > the
> > thing: if you say the fans are weird, that means there is something
> > essentially weird about the show, and there is nothing weird about it.
> > I'm very passionate when people like you snigger.' [AL] Of course
> > _Newsweek_ (7 Apr) headlined this _Macbeth_ interview 'Mr. Stewart
> > Loves
> > His Trekkies', with the photo caption 'Is that a Klingon I See?'
>
> With quality journalism like that I can see why some people seem to
> think that Newsweek is a valid science source to cite when asked to back
> up the notion that "in the 70's there was a scientific consensus that we
> were about to have an ice age".
I believe there was then and is still a scientific consensus that we are
in an ice age, and have been for quite a long time. Perhaps you, or
they, meant a glaciation?
Geologically speaking, I think it's a fair statement that we are about
to have a glaciation. But geologists have a somewhat different time
scale than the rest of us. I remember that when we visited Hadrian's
wall, my wife commented on how new it looked.
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