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Shemp Howard

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14. I think I get your point.

Sun Feb 11, 2018, 03:18 PM

Feb 2018

I think I get your point. Kind of. Maybe.

Anyway, I see Bill Nye as an informed entertainer. Nothing more, and nothing less. He's not really a "scientist", despite his degrees. And I certainly wouldn't put him in the category of a giant like Fermi. So who alive today is in that category? Stephen Hawking, for sure. And maybe Sheldon Cooper .

Everyone else is just guessing (not that guessing is such a bad thing).

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