"noRm d. plumBeR" wrote in message
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If you -know- a thing can be done, that is one thing. If you -assume-
it can be done, that's another thing. Given the amount of stuff men
have "known" in the past, and learned later to be false, it makes one
wonder why assuming a thing can be done doesn't give the same boost
that "knowing" it does.

To bring it to on-topic for RASFW, there has been at least one SF
tale(Raymond F Jones' short story "Noise Level") that featured convincing
scientists that something was doable in order to get them to replicate it.
But the "evidence" was faked.



Brian