Regarding the meteor crash in Russia...

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12. You know, people like Octafish are

often proven correct later and many of those people who smirked and laughed at them and belittled them, those who are finally subjected to absolute proof that they were incorrect, start saying things like, "Who would have believed...? Who'da thunk that...?" Witness the lack of WMD's in Iraq: millions of people protested and stated that there was absolutely no evidence of same and the media disregarded all of the logical arguments and went with Condi and Co. and then, after there weren't any, they said collectively, "Almost unbelievably, there are no WMD's in Iraq." And those of us who wrote letters and e-mails and exclaimed, "But we protested in the streets and demanded to see evidence which did not exist!", the Media, again collectively, said, "Look at that shiny object over there..."

If you don't like the analogy, and think it is specious, here's another one: man will never be able to fly. Or another: no one will ever be able to run a four-minute mile. Or another: The Earth is flat. Or even another: The Earth is the Center of the Universe.

Virtually everyone knew that all of those statements were "true". Everyone.