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Old 29-September-2008, 06:56 PM
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might be "potentially problematic" as in might could be Earth-swallowing on time scales measured in thousands or millions of years
Thousands? Or Millions?
Cuz that's a VERY big Difference!
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Wow! You're no longer a journeyman baiter! Allow me to be the first to congratulate you, Master!
I'm not baiting you.
I admit that I am frustrated by your strange desire to shut down a perfectly legitimate and fruitful scientific endeavor simply because your lack of understanding leads you to Terror.
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Yeah, all that physics stuff is boring anyway. So how about Toby Ord's philosophical point that 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000 articles are retracted by high-impact science journals?
So?
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