"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
"Robert Green" wrote:

My opinion is that it's evidence of the human mind needing to have
rational
explanations for everything that happens. It's why early man created
Zeus
(to explain thunder and lightning) and probably why we've got
civilization.
It's insatiable curiosity coupled with a fear of the unknown. We want
to
make things "knowable" so they don't frighten us.

Which brings to about the only interesting quote from the short-lived
8th Doctor:"
"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there."

There are some who study intelligence that believe that almost all of our
intellect arises from our ability to detect patterns. Some say it was the
ability of early humans to read tracks left by animals that catapulted us to
the top of the food chain. I personally believe it was figuring out
eclipses and the motions of the sun and stars that gave us our edge.
Sometimes I wonder if intelligent life will be found only on worlds where
there are things like full eclipses.

Speaking of Dr. Who and SciFi I started playing the Bab5 DVDs on the big
screen TV instead of the computer monitor and it seems they converted a 4x3
aspect ration to 16x9. The image gets incredibly grainy at times. Also,
it's painfully obvious how much special effects have improved in 20 years.
The FX really suffer because they are blown up to the wider aspect ratio.
However, if they didn't do it during production of the DVDs, I probably
would have done it with the remote's zoom button. I hate watching 4x3
programs on the wide screen TV.

One thing's for sure. A lot of us know a lot more about airplanes than
we
did a week ago!

I don't know. My cynical suggests in the final analysis we may know
even less....

How did you get a cynical to survive in captivity? I heard they're hard as
hell to keep alive. (-:

--
Bobby G.