PS.  i once debated the VP for Nuclear Energy of a company called GE, on camera (i wish i could remember what the film was called.)  He kept making incredibly erudite technical obfuscations, which i countered with what (from my perspective) were simple facts.  He wouldn't listen, so i said...

"Wow, he's like the guy who jumps out a forty story high window, and after falling twenty stories, says... ""Hey, so far so good.""

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin