Stephen Robins13 May 2004

Looking the wrong way down a telescope does not make very small things look very big, it just makes them appear further away, whereas a microscope enlarges very small things and makes them appear much bigger. However, in view of your rant with hypatia about things on which you clearly know more, I will hold my bombast at bay for the moment. So for now, I cautiously assert that you are a moderate failure of discrete medium sized proportions.