Adults Displaying Childlike Behavior On-line.

[DaVinci]

I skip one crummy day on Punaweb and you guys post three pages of hyperspectral flaming posts! Sheesh! First of all, Tom, if I thought it was gonna get me a tour of the Keck, I'd've started arguing with you months ago. Where do I stand in line for that kind of offer? Second, why is it that references to Star Trek and farming are so maligned in this thread? I loved Star Trek (TOS of course) and I've known farmers in my life that rivaled many a scientist in acquired knowledge. Third: hyperspectral in fact means "pertaining to a big" - "range of values" ... Or if you prefer, "pertaining to an agitated" - "ghost"... but assuming the former sets of root definitions, the inferred application of the term "spectral" to the electromagnetic range of frequencies is certainly within the bounds of the credulous. That sound waves are no longer being discussed is, therefore, I think, a conceded point. Stop bringing up settled points of debate. We spectators are not keeping score, we're just enjoying the blood sport of it all. And just as a professional farmer or athlete does in fact make money at his trade, a non-professional scientist (an enthusiast, if you will, like myself for instance) is perhaps as likely to offer pearls of wisdom in an amateur forum such as this, which requires no credentials for posting, as might a professional belly dancer, or a poet laureate, or a professor emeritus. Therefore, let us all rejoice in the democratization of knowledge, wherein everyone with an opinion may offer it, free of charge, to any other who wishes to peruse it. And the devil take the hindmost, and damn those blasted helicopters anyway...