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   Paul Aubrin to All   
   Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis    
   26 Jan 26 07:54:44   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism, alt.messianic   
   From: paul.aubrin@invalid.org   
      
   Le 26/01/2026 à 00:47, Dawn Flood a écrit :   
   > "When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people   
   > thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that   
   > thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth   
   > is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."   
   > -- Isaac Asimov, "The Relativity of Wrong" (1989)   
      
   The flat earth approximation can be very useful in everyday life. CMIP   
   climate models have no definded validity domain. Thus, they are useless   
   to predict the future of earth climates.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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