Steven Den Beste Strawman

> I was in conversation with someone and the High Frontier came up and
> they pooh-poohed it and pointed me to the *definitive debunking*
> written by Steven Den Beste. This I had to read, so I went to the URL
> and low and behold I come across a strawman stuffed to the limit with
> all sorts of assumptions - I immediately thought that Den Beste must
> be an alias for Bob Zubrin :)

Den Beste is an interesting fellow. Used to publish his blog on a
regular basis and then just .. stopped when he got email pointing out
where he was wrong on various points.

Brian Dunbar
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