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John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: The chances of anything coming from earth are a million to one he said.

"It's about the same effect as saying "Now whatever you do, you can't eat _this_ apple. Now I'm just going to go look the other way for a while..."

IIRC, experiments have shown that 60% of three years olds told not to look at or eat something "special" are "liars" and will "peek" or eat once the experimenter leaves the room. By age 5 the result id 100%. We are all born succumbing to temptation easily and the lying about it :-)

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