posted on Dec, 24 2005 @ 01:02 PM
To Cabanman,
My reply to your post was aimed squarely at "Pravda", not the article itself.
I totally disagree with ShadowXIX's statement,
"The site covering this story is of little importance....",
especially when an article to be submitted as credible
is put into a table of contents list like this:
Male cat breast-feeds kittens »»
President of Turkmenistan becomes father of all penguins »»
Michael Jackson converts to Islam, takes drugs and moves to Bahrain »»
Student's hand sticks in toilet »»
The way you sneeze defines your character »»
Naked women become inspiration for sexy furniture »»
Robbie Williams is not gay!!! »»
Square-shaped flying disk spotted in Shanghai »»
TATU: Be yourself, don't be a lesbian »»
Women hoover $590,000 out from casino »»
Let's do it like they do on the Discovery channel »»
Maria Sharapova fights with Anna Kournikova over DVD cover »»
Most disgusting professions: semen-washers and manure inspectors »»
Bad girls are fun in parties and sex, but boring in family life »»
Coffee possesses extremely harmful qualities, scientists say »»
Surrogate mother gives birth to triplets »»
Terrible mutations may turn humans into plants or animals »»
Nikolai Valuev becomes world's strongest and heaviest boxer »»
Mini: From most affordable car to a trendy present »»
90 percent of Russians scared of HIV-positive people to death »»
US surgeons remove huge tumor off Haitian girl's face »»
#####+++++KGB's secret UFO files finally made public »»+++++#####
Blocking sunshine with aerosol may help avoid global warming »»
People of the future to live high in the sky with no natural world around them »»
People settled in Russia's Moscow Region long before Egyptians built pyramids »»
Spaceflight from Moscow to New York to take less than an hour »»
What secrets do your fingerprints tell »»
It's just like I wouldn't instantly give credibility to an extraordinary story
told to me by a person known to have a tendency to exaggerate.
However, when included with this content,
"The History channel along with ABC News Prime Time Live have covered this...."
it tends to lend credibility to the article (well, OK, I suppose you could make the point
that this is 'ABC' we're talking about here, but in their defense, I submit that they do
tend to host shows like Monday Night Football, instead of WWE SmackDown).
If I may submit the following case in point:
Some years ago, three of our good school friends had a close-up encounter with
saucer shaped craft. They excitedly shared their story with as many people as they
could, friends, family, teachers, etc. After weeks of scoffing and ridicule,
the boys were dejected, disheartened, and filled with feelings of remorse and anguish
for having ever told anyone about what had happened. Then miraculously,
the exact same story as told by another group of individuals on the west coast
was published in a newspaper. Did this article vindicate the boy's story?
No, because it had been published in "The National Enquirer",
it proved to be the final crushing blow.