[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by towny

True, and where we have no knowledge, we like to fill in the gaps with our imaginations. Hence, medieval cartographers drew their maps with sea-serpents and other kinds of monster in those parts of the world as yet unexplored.

Similarly, we think about the great, unexplored ocean of space and speculate that there must surely be strange, exotic and perhaps terrifying creatures awaiting us.

We might just find that, once again, aliens and UFOs are just a fanciful doodle on the margin of our understanding. ( <--- wow, did I really say that? I should write a book... )

But whilst the medieval cartographers drew the sea-serpents that did not exist, mankind did exist on the unexplored areas of the maps.