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It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for
being right.
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson
Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.
Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and
great effort pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow.
Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin
equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the
destruction of this cairn, that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass
both Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other
planets, this may be the first message received from us.
-- The Realist, November, 1964
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Chemistry is applied theology.
-- Augustus Stanley Owsley III
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
-- Henri Poincar'e
10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.
MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGED -- The Pershing II missiles have been launched.
I'd love to go out with you, but I've been scheduled for a karma transplant.
Friday, 26 June 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
