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If there's one thing I've learned as an engineer, it's that no matter how much you think you know about something, there will always be a surprise or two. The world, it turns out, is a much stranger place than our ancestors ever would have guessed- who would have thought that a bit of germanium doped with boron could result in people all around the world being able to type messages to each other in real time, or that we could carry a week's worth of music in something small enough to fit into my shirt pocket?

Therefore until conclusive proof is brought forth one way or the other on the issue of ghosts and whatnot, I'm willing to keep an open mind. Most of it can be easily explained away, but there's that one-in-a-million story that comes along that defies all logic. And just because a data point is inconvenient doesn't mean that you can simply ignore it.

We don't know what the answer is, and cannot know for sure. Therefore labeling something as a ghost seems to be reasonably convenient for now.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 9 Jul 2008, 13:59, Reply)