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Subject: Re: Loch Ness Monster? -- It was er.. earthquakes...?
From: ChrisAtUpw@.......
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:26:15 EDT


       Luigi Piccardi, a geologist at the Centro di Studio dell=C3=A2=E2=82=
=AC=E2=84=A2Appennino=20
e delle Catene Perimediaterranee in Firenze, discovered that earthquakes=20
along the Great Glen Fault, which lies directly underneath Loch Ness,=20
correspond to many famous observances of the "monster."=20
       Ted Nield, science and communications officer for the Geological=20
Society of London, said, "It seems to me (as a Sassenach)*  that Dr.=20
Piccardi's explanation of the Loch Ness monster is at least as likely as any=
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other =E2=80=94 except, perhaps, our deep seated desire that she should exis=
t!"=20

       * =3D not a Scot

       Looks like Ted is good at his job. A masterly statement. Only when yo=
u=20
consider some of the previous 'explanations', do you start to appreciate the=
=20
subtlety of 'as likely as' .....

       LONG LIVE NESSIE....!!!

       Chris

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; Luigi Piccardi, a geologist at the Centro di Studio dell=C3=A2=E2=82=
=AC=E2=84=A2Appennino=20

e delle Catene Perimediaterranee in Firenze, discovered that earthquakes= =20
along the Great Glen Fault, which lies directly underneath Loch Ness,=20
correspond to many famous observances of the "monster."=20
      Ted Nield, science and communicatio= ns officer for the Geological=20
Society of London, said, "It seems to me (as a Sassenach)*  that Dr= ..=20
Piccardi's explanation of the Loch Ness monster is at least as likely as= any=20
other =E2=80=94 except, perhaps, our deep seated desire that she should=20= exist!"=20

      * =3D not a Scot

      Looks like Ted is good at his job.=20= A masterly statement. Only when you=20
consider some of the previous 'explanations', do you start to appreciate= the=20
subtlety of 'as likely as' .....

      LONG LIVE NESSIE....!!!

      Chris

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