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Re: (meteorobs) Meteor infall & disease
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
> I discovered Arrhenius by reading Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe's
> various books on "diseases from space." They went to great lengths to try
> to prove a correspondence with meteor infall and influenza outbreaks. I
do
> not believe they came near to any proof but they sure do write good
books.
Malcolm Currie wrote: "I remember an RAS meeting where FH & CW presented
some of their work. Few of the audience were convinced by their thesis. As
theoreticians it was clear that they didn't appreciate data errors, and
overinterpreted their IUE data. "
Malcolm,
I need to re-look into Hoyle and Wickramasinghe now that I have been
observing meteors with a critical mind for a few years. If they wouldn't
try to correlate actual common influenza outbreaks with specific annual
meteor showers, (like the "Germinids"-that's funny) then their broader
panspermia notions might still hold up. The genetic template here on Earth
may be connected to phenomena beyond earth. Personally, I suspect this to
be the case. ---Tom Ashcraft