Hello Henri,

On Wednesday June 05 2019 01:34, you wrote to me:

 HD>>> you unbelievable Thomas.

 MvdV>> "Doubting Thomas".

 HD> That may be, my English is not as good as that from mr. Timmermans.

Neither is mine, I do not practise enough. I had to get help from Google
translate and Wikipedia. I knew that "unbelievable Thomas" wasn't right though.
"unbelievable Thomas" would be "ongelofelijke Tomas", not "ongelovige Tomas".

 MvdV>> You wil have to live with that. I am a scientist. I am educated
 MvdV>> (indoctrinated if you want) with the basic principle of never
 MvdV>> accepting something as fact just because someone says so.

 HD> Normallyn that is a good point of view.

Always a good starting point...

 MvdV>> Every scientist should be a "doubting thomas".

 HD> Yes.

So we agree on that.

 HD> But in this case I was very sure,

So was Klaas Dijkstra when I met him in the mid sixties. I would not be
surprised if there are still some followers of his around, but in the sixties
we had an official "flat earth society". "platte aarde vereniging", in The
Netherlands. Klaas Dijkstra was the chairman. We - the physics student society-
 once inivited him fo a lecture, very entertaining. ;-)

 HD>  because I have seen that software tunning at de Acorn BBC computer of

Klaas Dijkstra also claimed he had seen for himself that the earth is flat.
Having lived in Friesland myself, I am not all that suprised. It *does* look
awfully flat there...

Sorry Henri, I was indoctrinated with: "never accept anything as fact just
because someone says so". No exception for people who say they are very sure...
:-)

 HD> Simon Voortman at the AcoNet Sysop Meeting in 1992 at his home in
 HD> Ouddorp.ZH.NL.

OK...

 HD>>> And also here:
 HD>>> 

 NvdV>> "Server not found".

 HD> Sorry, that should be: eveliensnel.com

Yeah, I got thet now...


Cheers, Michiel

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