By all the laws of aerodynamics, it is physically impossible for a Bee to fly, however, with the billions of flowers that are pollinated every single year and the literal tons of honey that are produced by billions of Bees flying around the planet, I guess somebody forgot that Bees don't know how to read.

Medically speaking, the human body cannot survive speeds in excess of 50 miles per hour. I guess somebody forgot to tell that to the people in the Skeleton event at the Winter Olympics because they travel down ice and snow with nothing but a thin board between them and the track at speeds in excess of 80 miles an hour.

And one of the richest and smartest men in the field of computers once proclaimed, "Nobody would ever need more than 640 kilobytes of memory."

The reason I bring things like this up is because of a thread on the UFO UpDates List this past week entitled 'Beyond a Doubt'. It refers to an article in a paper that discusses a site on the Internet called 'The Skeptic's Dictionary' run by a College Professor who is supposedly a skeptic at heart. He takes shots at everything, including UFO's and grandly proclaims that what he states is merely the truth.

The thread developed a huge following and many people came out to discuss skeptics and skepticism, especially when it deals with UFOs.

Now skepticism is not a bad thing. It is healthy for all of us to have a little skepticism whenever we're looking at anything. I personally am skeptical whenever somebody tells me something about UFOs and I don't automatically believe everything I hear or see. I also however keep an open mind about things because there are many things in this world that have yet to be explained away.

In the study of UFOs there are true believers and debunkers. Many times the debunkers and true believers try to hide behind the veil of skepticism because otherwise we'd all just see them for what they truly are. Negativists and crackpots.

The debunker, the true believer and the skeptic are easy to identify if you know what to look for because they almost always follow the same tired old formula.

Let's say a report comes in about somebody seeing a saucer shaped craft in broad daylight that moved slowly and seemed to be silvery in colour. The report speaks about watching this craft for a period of minutes and then talks about how the craft suddenly moved off with a speed that was not like anything the person ever saw before.

The true believer takes that story and suddenly you find there are a lot of embellishments added to it. There might have been strange looking aliens seen on the ground near the craft or the sighting lasted for several hours instead of minutes. The debunker immediately pulls out dusty old tomes and tells us of the migratory habits of the Canada Snow Geese and proclaims that the person simply saw a gaggle of geese and must have been mistaken when they say the geese left the area at Mach 3.5.

The skeptic looks at the sighting and says that it is interesting. If they are interested enough, they contact the person or persons and ask them some questions. They still won't have a definitive answer as to what it was and if questioned will merely say that it was an Unidentified Flying Object.

Those of us who are trying to learn more about UFOs and what they are have to be wary of the debunkers and the true believers but we have to actively unmask those who try to hide behind the respectable title of skeptic.....

But that's just my take on it.