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XPost: soc.culture.china, soc.culture.scottish
From: fjmccall@gmail.com
rst0wxyz wrote:
:On Nov 11, 11:28 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> rst0wxyz wrote:
:>
:> :On Nov 11, 8:42 pm, Fred J. McCall wrote::> rst0wxyz
wrote:
:>
:> :>
:> :> :
:> :> :Today's rocket engine is like yesterday's horse and buggy. Tomorrow's
:> :> :space travel methods will surpass all our expectations. You just wait
:> :> :and see!!!
:> :> :
:> :>
:> :> No. Today's rocket engine is like yesterday's rocket engine. Physics
:> :> don't change just because you watch Star Trek...
:> :
:> :We are not at the end of Physical science. We are at the beginning.
:> :There are still a long way to go. There are still many many unknowns
:> :we have not explored.
:> :
:>
:> The fact that we don't know everything does not mean that anything is
:> possible. If ignorance meant that, you'd be able to do anything.
:
:If stone age people think like you, we still would be living in the
:stone age.
:
No, but if stone age people think (and I use the term in its loosest
possible sense) like you we'd have moved out of the caves and died
while waiting for antigravity to allow us to build castles in the air.
:>
:> :>
:> :> --
:> :> "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
:> :> truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
:> :> -- Thomas Jefferson
:> :
:> :Thomas Jefferson wrote many beautiful words from his dreams. Trouble
:> :was, he never lived up to his dreams. Far from it.
:> :
:>
:> Commenting on a .sig. Care to try for any of the other top three most
:> clueless behaviours on Usenet?
:
:I see a clueless talking about clueless.
:
Of course you do. That's the mirror you're looking in. Now put down
the crack pipe and get back to us when you've sobered up and the
hallucinations have stopped.
--
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
only stupid."
-- Heinrich Heine
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