The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

logical fallacy: just because it has "application"
after the fact, doesn't imply that said application
was the MOTIVE for solving it in the FIRST place by
ALL those who attempted to solve it...your turn to try
again..

--- Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 07:32 PM 10/17/2005, jporter wrote:
> 
> >On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:07 PM, John Doe wrote:
> >
> >>Tell that to the mathematicians who worked on
> solving
> >>the Fermat problem; tell them their enthusiasm,
> >>obsession, passion was funded by the
> government...and
> >>that all the time and energy they spent on trying
> to
> >>solve the damn thing was subsidized by Uncle Sam
> for
> >>military purposes....
> >
> >Was the proof of Fernat's Last Theorem science?
> >
> >Seemed more like an exercise in pure mathematics
> >to me, but I'm not a scientist.
> >
> >jody
> 
> Fermat's theorem has application in cryptography the
> use of which is 
> essential to the military.  Strong encryption is
> classified as a munition 
> by the U.S.G.
> Please try again, Mr. Doe. 
> 
> 



	
		
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