Despite pushback from his colleagues and ample evidence to the contrary, another celebrated Harvard astronomer, Percival Lowell, also succumbed to ET Derangement Syndrome (ETDS), maintaining that the faint striations seen on telescopic photos of Mars were definitive proof of a canal system built by an extraterrestial civilization. To paraphrase Rick James, ETDS is a helluva drug.
Enjoyed your roasting of Loeb. Happy Thanksgiving, Brian!
Despite pushback from his colleagues and ample evidence to the contrary, another celebrated Harvard astronomer, Percival Lowell, also succumbed to ET Derangement Syndrome (ETDS), maintaining that the faint striations seen on telescopic photos of Mars were definitive proof of a canal system built by an extraterrestial civilization. To paraphrase Rick James, ETDS is a helluva drug.
High time that somebody called him on his grifting quackery.
Happy Thanksgiving, Brian.