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Skriven 2004-08-02 22:43:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED CONNELL
Ärende: AOL Censorship - have
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-=> Quoting Ed Connell to Dawn Robicheaux <=-

 DR> "This ain't really life, ain't really life, ain't really...
 DR> ain't nothing but a movie."

 EC> Yeah, it used to be that anyone who questioned Galeleo's
 EC> transformations between moving frames of reference was thought to be a
 EC> nut case.  Then this little German Jew (neoconservative) came along and
 EC> showed that Galelean transformations only work part of the time, and
 EC> that they represent a special case of a more comprehensive way to look
 EC> at things.  Einstein sort of turned the world of physics on its ear.

Just what one might expect of a neo-con ... [sigh] ... can't let 
well-enough alone ...

 EC> Aristotle taught that heavier objects fell faster than light objects
 EC> and that each object, according to its weight, had a natural speed at
 EC> which it fell.  Because of his great respect in the eyes of the
 EC> intellectual elite, his views held sway for almost 2000 years.  

That *still* is easy to believe -- and I'm familiar with 
Galileo's experiments:  Dropping several slices from the Leaning 
Tower of Pizza ... the heavier an object is the faster it falls 
... period!  Common sense thus dictates ... besides who would 
dare argue with Aristotle?

 EC> Then
 EC> along came Galeleo who dropped some cannon balls off the tower.  And
 EC> another one bites the dust. Actually Galeleo  more or less destroyed
 EC> Aristotle's view with a thought experiment.  I'll let you look that one
 EC> up.  It portrayed a guy who was Aristotle's man, another who was
 EC> Galeleo's man, and a third who was a fair-minded onlooker.

 EC> The point of all this is that if you two bozos had an ounce of
 EC> intellectual honesty, you would perform experiments yourselves, and
 EC> report your results. Of course you would have the problem of thinking
 EC> of some way to make your report have credibility as you have none at
 EC> this point except with each other - which is to say, with yourself.

 EC> Of course, let me point this out to you.  If you were to do an
 EC> experiment, and your results were different from John's experience,
 EC> that would not prove that his report was not accurate.  That means that
 EC> if your only goal is to attack John, perhaps your chosen method is
 EC> best.  Just laugh about it. Shared laughter can be seen as its own
 EC> reward.  However, there is the drawback that the word "share" loses its
 EC> meaning when the "individuals" doing the sharing are identically the
 EC> same person.  So, my advice to you is that you should actually
 EC> experiment only if you intellectually want to know what is going on. 
 EC> Otherwise, you are just wasting your time, much as I am right now.

Ahhhhh!  *Finally*!  That last sentence sums it all up nicely ... 
heh heh heh ...

... Every politician has a price.  Some hold bargain sales.

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