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| Thread ID: 150887 | 2022-09-15 09:17:00 | I don't believe it. | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1488341 | 2022-09-20 23:13:00 | Spectacular, Kenj | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1488342 | 2022-09-20 23:26:00 | Here's an example of how we go from thinking; to believing; to knowing: theconversation.com How do we know anything?[/QUOTE] Well I got down to this: “Scientists began systematically measuring India’s monsoon rainfall with instruments around the 1870s.” and I thought “India – 1870’s – Instruments” cripes a bucket and a stick would be their most accurate instrument back then. So I thought I’d check who published this rubbish and sure enough HERE (theconversation.com). :) No surprises there and I see they specialise in “Academic Rigour” and “Journalistic Flair”. 11394 And now from the Sceptics Soapbox. :D "That 2006 masterclass in climate propaganda, claimed that by now there would a 20-foot sea level rise and 100 million climate refugees. The passage of time has not only confirmed just how absurd Al Gore’s predictions were, but also how wrong all of the alarmist projections over the last 30 years have been). :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488343 | 2022-09-21 00:46:00 | Yeah,yeah,yeah, and the world is only a few thousand years old. Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1488344 | 2022-09-21 00:58:00 | Yeah,yeah,yeah, and the world is only a few thousand years old. Ken ;) Is it?...................not that it matters. :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488345 | 2022-09-21 06:31:00 | Here's an example of how we go from thinking; to believing; to knowing: theconversation.com I'm sure I have told you this before but here we go again, arguing with idiots is pointless and arguing with old idiots is doubly so they are so set in their ways and thoughts that you would be better talking to troop of monkeys as at least they would listen and not pontificate. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1488346 | 2022-09-21 08:31:00 | I'm sure I have told you this before but here we go again, arguing with idiots is pointless and arguing with old idiots is doubly so they are so set in their ways and thoughts that you would be better talking to troop of monkeys as at least they would listen and not pontificate. I must concede that you are more conversant with communicating with troops of monkeys than I am. However, I do feel for the monkeys. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488347 | 2022-09-21 12:59:00 | Here's what Carl Sagan had to say about our home Earth: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1488348 | 2022-09-21 20:49:00 | Aaah, "The pale blue dot" He truly was a far looking eloquent man. I have the "Cosmos" series which is looking a bit dated as far as video goes but it is still so good to watch. Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1488349 | 2022-09-21 22:58:00 | Thinking - Believing - Knowing BM is stuck at not believing as he says, he doesn't even know that he doesn't know. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1488350 | 2022-09-21 23:44:00 | Thinking - Believing - Knowing BM is stuck at not believing as he says, he doesn't even know that he doesn't know. Well I'll leave it to you to chase fairy's around the bottom of the garden and pale blue dots. Don’t know what your on but I want some to keep up. |
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