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   Dawn Flood to JTEM   
   Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis    
   26 Jan 26 21:16:42   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/26/2026 3:32 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 1/26/26 2:54 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:16:02 -0500, JTEM  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 1/26/26 12:46 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Are you saying some results of climate predictions have turned out to   
   >>>> be correct ("by chance," of course, as you say)?   
   >>>   
   >>> If you were standing on the stern of the Titanic, not too long   
   >>> after it hit that iceberg, you could scream "Omg! The ship is   
   >>> flying up out of the water" and ACCURATELY predict that the   
   >>> stern could soon be observed with the naked eye to be rising   
   >>> up, into the sky.   
   >   
   >> While other parts of the ship did the opposite.   
   >   
   > Work it out:  If you could reach out & grab one end of ship,   
   > start pulling it out of the water, what would happen to the   
   > other end?   
   >   
   > Work it out.   
   >   
   > HINT:  The answer is "Exactly how initial observations would   
   > have revealed."   
   >   
      
   As I have already told you, the Titanic broke into two pieces; as such,   
   the stern of the ship did not rise out of the water for very long!!   
      
   Dawn   
      
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