I can question whether or not you're really the Drakir I was emailing
yesterday. I can question whether my existance is real or merely `a
brain in a jar'. I can question whether gravity really /does/ pull down
equally based on mass.
I can't think of a single fact that can't be questioned and /some/ good
come of it. That's one of the basic tenets of science as I understand
it, that there's always more to know.
> Nope, it was beleived, but it wasn't true, so it wasn't a fact.
To /them/ it was a fact. If aliens dropped out of the sky tomorrow and
revealed humanity as an out-of-control genetic robotics experiment left
too long in the 'fridge and backed it up with proof, would the idea that
humanity evolved from amoeba suddenly /cease/ being a fact because its
suddenly in question? How about if the aliens revealed we're all brains
in jars?
How can there be a fact no one believes?
--
Alexander Williams{thantos@alf.dec.com/zander@photobooks.com}
The Mekton is a powerful tool, both physically and emotionally.
There is something that happens to an enemy when he sees his home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man. -- Arkon Verian
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Of all the weapons of the Empire, the greatest and most respected
were the Metal Knights. These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations, righting wrongs and bringing fear to the
Empire's Enemies. It is said that these metal giants were shaped
like men so that the alien servants of Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
-- Scribings from the Murian Archives