On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us
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On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us
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14-02-2025, 04:59 PM
On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us - a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
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It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
15-02-2025, 04:37 PM
I like the beginning of Contact. Summed up our place in things rather well.
15-02-2025, 05:56 PM
(14-02-2025, 04:59 PM)zqwerty Wrote: On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us - a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam Yeah..took one look & never returned....  The proof that there is very likely intelligent life in the universe is that they've never made contact with earthlings... 
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
15-02-2025, 07:10 PM
Yet Trumpanzee et al insist on acting as if they live on an infinite flat plane not a finite and rather small sphere.
Sooner these ancient old men are removed from power the better, they will be the death of us all with their ignorance and stupidity.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
16-02-2025, 10:56 AM
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
16-02-2025, 11:25 AM
They won't leave voluntarily, they need large numbers of unsuspecting 'marks' they can use confidence trickery on just the way he has done now, fooling everyone that he knows more than he does and will make a half-way decent President.
There is a quote from him which sums up the fact that he doesn't know how the tides of the sea come about and why.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
16-02-2025, 02:34 PM
(16-02-2025, 11:25 AM)zqwerty Wrote: They won't leave voluntarily, they need large numbers of unsuspecting 'marks' they can use confidence trickery on just the way he has done now, fooling everyone that he knows more than he does and will make a half-way decent President. Surely, given his lifestyle - allegedly a bad diet & not much in the way of exercise apart from golf - surely that will eventually catch up with him & render him both harmless & unfit for the presidency..?
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
16-02-2025, 02:57 PM
There was a study that came up with the judgement that there was nothing wrong with hamburgers in fact they were as they were designed virtually a complete diet. Diet coke can't be that bad unless Aspartame is a cancer causing agent.
Remember as I said before, he doesn't seem to have any of the conventional vices like drinking and drug taking etc, golf is quite good exercise for older people, lots of walking and sunshine plus Tai Chi type movement from the swing and bending. After all he has already lasted a long time, has a beautiful wife and lots of fancy possessions, with plenty of spending money.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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