RE: virus: May 5, 2000
Dan Plante (danp@CS347838-A.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com)
Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:00:40 -0700
At 10:23 PM 6/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>Dan Plante wrote:
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>>NASA still uses Newtonian Mechanics when planning and controlling
>>spacecraft trajectories. Within that context (the description of the
>>motion of bodies to, say, 16 decimal places) allows them to predict the
>>size of the target area of the spacecraft to within 16 decimal places
>>(say, a window with a radius of 120km). Any alternate postulate or law,
>>that embodies as its /implicit context/, the same predictive quality as
>>Newtonian Mechanics regarding the motion of bodies, but dictates a target
>>/outside/ the one predicted by NASA, would be /demonstrably/ false.
>>Utterly and completely. No ifs, ands, buts, or likelihoods.
>
>Then how do you explain the Challenger blowing up?
Up to your old tricks, eh, Richard? Boy are /you/ stuck in a rut.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds....
The answer is: UFOs, of course.
Dan