From: Chris Russo (extropy@russo.org)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 06:49:25 MST
>Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> writes:
>
>> At 2:18 PM +1100 1/26/01, Damien Broderick wrote:
>> >Ack.
>> >
>> >It might help for people to *read* the original brief news report
>>
>> I've been seeing a lot of this problem recently. Many of urls
>> forwarded to this list don't really say what the people think they do.
>
>Quite common in academia too. Many references do not say what the
>paper referring them says they do.
ObCYA: Ya know, I did read that article and understood the
non-gravitational-singularity nature of the experiments. I thought
about prefacing my original comment with "I know that these
particular experiments won't do it, but...", just to make sure I
didn't look like a Chicken Little for posting the thought. I guess
next time I shall.
Regards,
Chris Russo
--
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought
or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet
hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
which does harm."
-- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
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