Engineer, physicist, & philosopher tried to orbit sun. Philosopher died trying to figure out why he wanted to. Physicist died solving n-body problem. Engineer lived full life in stable orbit lasting 1 billion years. Engineers find practical solutions.
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Yes you once gave me as an example of objective truth that the "sun is a ball of burning gas". It's actually slightly flattened and its made of plasma. I got the point tho lol...
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No thanks to Hairlern and her 'knowledge'.
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knerlerdge...
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I'm guessing thats how Hairlern was as a child
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You can have "too many", or you can have "science nerds". You can't have both.
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Way to de-rail the, perfectly valid, point she was making :-D
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And I put that reply in the wrong spot, didn't I? Darn it.
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Omg! I’m a techie sciency guy but geez o man, that it just silly. Everybody knows what we mean when we say earth orbits sun. These guys are just showing off. Can’t see forest for the trees. Oh well, humans: what r u gonna do with them.
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Analogies almost always conceal some aspect of the truth anyway.
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All models are wrong; some are useful.
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Analogy is not a model. It is an alternate set of facts which in some particular resembles the matter at hand. This is why use of analogy is fraught with conceptual pitfalls.
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