Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Robert J. Kolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Greeks had charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter.  They could have made 
> >>> gunpowder.  The Greeks had copper, zinc, lodestones, and acids, they could 
> >>> have discovered Maxwell's equations.  The Greeks had sand and fire, they 
> >>> could have invented the refracting telescope.  The Greeks could work metal 
> >>> and distill alcohal, they could have invented the internal combustion 
> >>> engine.
> >>
> >>Considering the acomplishments of the only decent Greek scientist, 
> >>Archimedes [1], your ironic commentary borders closely on truth. What 
> >>the Greek philosophs were missing was humility, not technology; the 
> >>realization that one ought to submit the products of the mind to the 
> >>judgement of Nature.
> >
> >And who can say what a future generation will say was right in front of 
> >our noses and should have been discovered.
> >
> :-)))  Right now, right in front of my nose (well, metaforically) 
> there is a list of numbers some subset of which will yield big money 
> at the nearest state lottery drawing.  So?
> 
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