Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> >Archimedes was a remarkable engineer and mathematician.  Pretty much
> >nothing is known about whether he was a very good scientist.  By at
> >least one canon of science, he was miserable: he kept his discoveries
> >a secret.
> 
> Ptui.  How do you know that?  I was in the computer biz.  We
> did not document the obvious.  Now that obvious is gone and
> today's developers are "rediscovering" the knowledge all over again.

He was famous for keeping them secret.  His engineering triumphs were
military secrets.