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#1308138 - 05/29/07 08:59 PM
Re: Big Bat

[Re: fourwayj]
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Ganja God
 
Registered: 06/21/00
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Loc: Vancouver, BC
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#1308144 - 05/30/07 12:57 AM
Re: Big Bat
[Re: chrisbennett]
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Pooh-Bah

Registered: 09/21/04
Posts: 1931
Loc: l7
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Useful trades are great, but have less impact on our understanding of the Universe that what Steven Hawkings has to offer.
Mmm, understanding. Tastes like chicken! Understanding is a "dessert", it tastes good after you've had a full meal, but it is not at all a complete substitute, nor does it really make sense except with the meal.
People like Stephen Hawking are expendable. Farmers are not. We could have a perfectly functional earth with no stephen hawkings. We could not have a perfectly functional earth with no farmers, masons, seamstresses, cooks, janitors, plumbers, etc.
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In fact your comments on Hawkings, who has managed to become one of the world's greatest minds from a very crippled state, show both your youthful arrogance and ignorance.
I never said he didn't have a "great mind". I said that his "Great mind", no matter how great it is, isn't attached to a "Great body" that can produce food. Great Minds are great, but they only happen because of stomachs full of food! I'm ignorant because I'm aware that food is a necessity and "Great Minds" are a luxury?
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger." --Lichtenberg
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If you accomplish one one hundredth of what Hawkings has done in his life, then you will gain my respect
What, exactly, has he accomplished? How many people has he fed? How many useful technologies for solving real problems have his theories generated?
"After receiving his B.A. degree at Oxford University in 1962, he stayed to study astronomy, deciding to leave when he found that studying sunspots, which was all the observatory was equipped for, did not appeal to him and that he was more interested in theory than in observation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawking (emphasis added)
(immature/irrelevant ad-homs almost totally ignored, except for this little comment about ignoring them!)
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