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Subject: Re: Death Star weapon. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 00:26:54 EDT
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ism780!chris    May 20 11:26:00 1984

<we got bugs, right here is river city!>

I am a little surprised that people with scientific background
keep ignoring the first law: "Keep an open mind". If you arbitrarily
decide that something is possible or impossible, you stop looking
for new evidence, and new ways of interpreting the evidence.

Yes, FTL does look unlikely, Given What We Know Now. It may or may
not be truly possible. However to decide that it is or is not possible
on the scanty evidence we have is the same as me deciding that
electrons do not exist just because i have never seen one.

Twelve years ago the notion of quarks was one that wasn't taken seriously
by very many people at all. Now they are taken very seriously. The whole
history of scientific thought shows that what is one decade's heresy is
another decade's dogma, and a third decade's popular antiquity.

If you don't want to get stuck into a particular line of thought, you
have to be willing to look at things from different points of view,
and see how things look from there. Isn't that after all the essence
of Relativity? What you see depends on where you stand.


			Chris Kostanick
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