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Is this another witchunt?

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DominionSeraph
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09-04-2005 2:12 AM

"It occurred to me - the best place in the solar system to view a solar eclipse is also the best place in the solar system to support complex life," Gonzalez says. "Is that just a coincidence?"
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WTF??
He's asking if it's a coincidence that the best place to view the Moon blocking the Sun is from within the umbra? And that the best place to view that the Moon's apparent size is equal to the Sun's, and completely blocking it, and as the tip of the umbra intersects the Earth, is on the Earth?
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Somebody please shoot me.
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09-08-2005 1:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Chiroptera
09-04-2005 12:35 PM

Chiroptera writes:
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Of course, with the billions of facts that are available, it wouldn't be surprising that there should be a few surprising coincidences.
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And much of it isn't a coincidence. Life exists, so it's not surprising that the conditions allow for it -- just like how there's ice at the poles, so it's not surprising that it's cold there.
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