You freind had a good anology. Too often we manage to pull the trigger. Life gets easier, you live longer and you don't take yourself so seriously when you accept that most of what you think you know is utter non-sense. Knowledge, more often then not, is just a lie agreed upon. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:41:51 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Sigh... That's a good point, Robert. I think the rational part of our brains is a thin veneer. But we have great inventiveness. My friend Conrad (now deceased) had an analogy for the human race: We're a bunch of monkeys playing around with a loaded machine gun. -- Joe