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Comment Re:UFOs !=aliens (Score 1) 498

The former.

And of course, you are just assuming these craft are secret from, say, the American government. Or even that this in fact is not an American test. And why do you think they can travel the "stellar" system? I thought nuclear bunkers were at issue here.

You just make the latter seem simple to form some ill-conceived reductio ad absurdum.

Anyway I don't buy the story, period (which is why I said "if"). I was just saying that the alien angle is not part of the official story.

Comment Serious question here (Score 1) 311

As a non-physicist, I am trying to wrap my head around the article. Glad it was short!

With the presupposition that verything is caused, meaning everything is an effect, does this further mean that the LHR can sub-atomically trace back the chain of causality to the prime efficient cause (taking the Big Bang to be a causa sui)?

This is no troll - I am not trying to smuggle in any cosmological proofs for God. What I want to know is whether this provisional result is possibly a trace of the big bang itself, or a recreation of the conditions. Or, perhaps, if recreating the conditions is identical to witnessing it.

Hope my post is not nonsensical.

Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 231

Dude, you posted that 40 minutes after my comment. I guess time-travel should be part of my skill set?

Moreover, your revised point is the same as the article: MS is changing its tune (even if merely opportunistically), and yet you claim that the article gets its history wrong ...

Comment Re:Schopenhauer (Score 1) 733

That's precisely wrong. Art permits you to observe acts of the will without being willful yourself. Think of it as the difference between looking at a painting about lust (say, the Rape of Lucretia) and pornography (find your own link). In Ebert's example: you can 'win' one of these things ....

Like it or not, Schopenhauer's point is that art permits you to observe the will without being overwhelmed by it, which, in essence, we are when not looking at art.

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