Re: virus: Update on the search.

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Mon, 01 Jun 1998 19:54:34 -0400


Im must have missed something, but the Hermit is most certainly correct. there
is NO POSSIBILITY that Venus was a comet. In fact, anyone who suggests it is
begging for a padded cell, or preschool. In fact, You would have to be just
plain stupid to make such a postulation anytime after the 16th century.

Sodom

TheHermit wrote:

> My but you are very indiscriminate in your reading! <g>
>
> Anytime I see or hear the name Velikovsky, my bullshit detector leaps into
> the overload sector of the dial.
>
> If you examine some of Venus's key characteristics, which we have measured
> with certainty e.g., diameter 12,100 km, density 5.2 grams per cubic
> centimeter, surface temperature 482 degrees Celsius, we realize that not in
> a month of Sundays could it possibly have originated as a "dirty, fuzzy
> snowball" or comet.