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[Guest_Sunspot_*]

Surely this is a joke?

http://mosnews.com/feature/2005/04/19/deepimpact.shtml

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

This story is not funny at all: remember that there was a successfull suing against a guy who said that the Earth was orbiting around the sun, contradicting the "religious" beliefs of the establishment. He had to say ridiculous things to escape death sentence. Galileo was his name if I remember well.

Is this really impossible today? I would not bet. The spirit of dogmatism and intolerance is still there, as a creeping minority, even in developed and cultivated countries. And as a majority of "religious" nuts in some countries. And I am not sure that if, even in developed countries, somebody made a really revolutionary discovery, that he would not gain the open hostility of certain scientists.

So humour in this domain is still a defense.