On 02-21-98 Keith Knapp wrote to Richard Meic... 
 KK> An even more important issue is that we need more data, and 
 KK> it will be very expensive to get those data.  The current 
 KK> proliferation of hypotheses is typical in situations where 
 KK> there are enough data to support all of them but not enough 
 KK> to kill any of them.  NASA is cooking up a couple of 'next 
 KK> generation' space telescopes, but they aren't gonna fly for 
 KK> at least five years. 
I dunno Keith.  As much as I enjoy the new views of the macro and 
micro cosm, the expense you allude to has been increasing as the 
data sets have.  And, I suspect a law of diminishing returns with 
an exponential price to find ever smaller peices of the puzzle in 
ever bigger haystacks of chaos. 
 
This notion has lead me to the study of mysticism and myth which 
has had the serendiptous effect of exposing to me cosmologies that 
are as ancient, or more, than religious dogma, but which aren't in 
fact, in contradiction to the available scientific interpretions 
of the facts such as we now find them in the digs, telescopes and 
quantum physics labs. 
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