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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:35:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Hubris and Intellectual Honesty

To Thoams Donaldson:

Again, with all due respect, let's try it this way:  


You CAN't prove a negative.  For example, you CAN'T prove that UFO's DON'T 
exist.

Are you with me so far?  


Well, if you CAN'T prove that UFOs exist then you also CAN'T prove that any 
particular revival 
CAN't happen.  

You can't prove a negative.

There is no difference here.  You CAN'T know what you DON'T know.

It is intellectual honesty to admit this.  The rest is opinion.


The specific ACTION I am concerned here is with anyone having the hubris to say,
"Well THIS guy 

in cylinder number ten can NEVER be revived.  Toss him and let's stop wasting 
money."


My entire point here is that it is logically wrong to EVER pull the plug.  You 
CAN'T know what 
the next technological breakthrough could mean.  


To take ACTION based on any other basis is, I submit, the highest order of 
hubris.


Don't pull my plug because your currrent, soon to be disproven if history holds 
true, paradigm 
indicates I CAN'T be revived.  


Do you agree or not?  If not, with all due respect, please stay away from MY 
cylinder!

-George Smith

"When a respected senior scientist declares something to be impossible, it will 
certainly happen 
within five years." - Arthur C. Clarke

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