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   Greg Goss to droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com   
   Re: Paper published on producing arbitra   
   27 Aug 16 07:55:38   
   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Doc O'Leary   wrote:   
      
   >Pointing to experimental aircraft is like pointing to cold fusion.   
   >They are a *fiction* in the real world.  Your case is not made when   
   >you’re deliberately being intellectually dishonest like this.   
      
   I disagree with your metaphor.  Cold fusion has never been proved to   
   exist.  Flying cars are more like tokamaks or inertial confinement or   
   even a Farnsworth Fusor.  They exist, but aren't practical.   
   --   
   We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.   
      
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