"Expert" fooled by Bert Stego

Dan Jones dan at termina.com
Thu Oct 18 17:42:12 PDT 2001


http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,575821,00.html
(second article down)

So much for conspiracy theory - maybe that's the best image of bin Laden they could find. The ramifications for poor Ernie, however, aren't so amusing.





 - dan

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:47:16PM -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
> At 12:40 PM 10/18/01 -0700, auto301094 at hushmail.com wrote:
> >
> >Expert Warns Al Qaeda Planning Major Biological Attack
> >
> >DefenseWatch: One of the illustrations shows Osama bin Laden next to a
> cartoon
> >character from Sesame Street. What significance does that image have?
> >
> >The Sesame Street character that has appeared in a huge poster with
> Osama bin
> >Laden is significant in that it is yellow and has a mask-like quality.
> And one
> >can be certain that it was not placed on that huge poster by accident,
> as some people have stupidly suggested. It is a signal.
> 
> Bert Stego?  Occam's razor, dude.
> 
> 
> >Robert Koontz is an experimental nuclear physicist who earned his Ph.D.
> in 1980
> >at the University of Maryland. His specialties are experimental nuclear
> 
> >physics and high-energy physics, but he is also an expert in certain
> areas of
> >electronics, computer systems, software development and matters
> relating to
> >electronic intelligence gathering. Koontz has been a Staff Scientist at
> the
> >Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a Professor of
> Physics at
> >the University of South Dakota, and formerly was an instructor at the
> National
> >Security Agency.He lives in Pennsylvania.
> 
> He might be smart, and the rest of what he says is interesting,
> but he has paranoid delusions W.R.T. Bert.





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