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   Kym Horsell to Kym Horsell   
   Re: reminder: NASA to live stream a repo   
   31 May 23 12:21:25   
   
   From: kymhorsell@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 11:11:21 AM UTC+10, Kym Horsell wrote:   
   > No. This is not a joke. After ignoring the issue for 70y NASA will    
   > attempt to summarize its study over the last 9m (I think it is)    
   > of UFO evdience.    
   > I think we can expect "just a PR exercises" and nothing remotely interesting   
   will be presented. AFAIK nothing has come of in the press about the prev   
   months of work from any of the well-credentialled members of the group. As far   
   as I know it doesnt    
   have a web page either.    
   ...   
      
   I didn't catch the conference but from the scanty press coverage it seems to   
   have been a   
   "please give us more data" exercise.   
      
   Look. I'm not an unfeeling bastard but I think we have to conclude that given   
   70y no answer traditional science is not really fit for purpose outside the   
   areas closley alligned with solving geometry theorems.   
      
   Hence (I presume) Garry Nolan. Medical training involves solving problems from   
   noisy data and noisy rules under time and other pressure and doing the best   
   job you can because something important relies on you getting some kind of   
   answer even if its not    
   perfect and everyone else will agree with it.   
      
   Here. Maybe the entry from my Big Book of Definitions will help with the   
   mental model:   
      
   Science:   
   A subject where students are tested with exams consisting of 50    
   ultuple-choice questions, 4 choices of which are obviously wrong and the other   
   one must be right.   
      
   --    
   [No Show:]   
   NASA UFO Panel in First Public Meeting Says Better Data Needed   
   USNews.com, 31 May 2023 10:28Z   
   Washington (Reuters). The first public meeting of a NASA panel studying what   
   the government calls...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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