>> Yeah, this one had to do with evolution and so forth. It made multiple
>> references to The Blind Watchmaker, but I haven't read that.
> 
> So then you do know what he's done. ;-)

It's been a while, yeah.

>> (The next question, of course, becomes "who invented this myth?")
> 
> GIYF - a hit that I got returned:
> 
> http://physics.about.com/od/classicalmechanics/a/gravity.htm

What the heck did you search for?! It's kind of a rather specific 
question...

>> I would refute that... Perhaps I need to do a straw poll when I go down
>> the pub tonight? (Although I can't *pronounce* most of those names,
>> so...)
> 
> You might refute it, a straw poll might be a start, but a poll of 20 
> people isn't a particularly statistically valid poll.

Well it would be more valid than a straw poll of *one* wouldn't it? :-P

Still, I guess this is going to be one of those things where no matter 
how much evidence I produce that nobody has heard of these people, 
everybody will continue to assert that my statistics are just wrong...

> As for pronunciation, I'm guessing Vint Cerf is the one you are having 
> trouble with - I gave a clue, when I said "Cerfing". ;-)

Quite a few of the names look hard to pronounce, but we'll see...

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