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In Reply to: RE: Interesting Quotes ... posted by danlaudionut on August 29, 2015 at 19:03:58
Especially quotes. :)
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Don't believe science either.
They have been wrong so many times.
Earth is flat.
Man cannot fly.
Global Cooling/Global Warming/Global Climate Change.
Butter and eggs are bad for you.
CD's perfect sound forever.
Etc Etc Etc ...
DanL
Earth is flat. This was not universally believed
Man cannot fly. Man was planning human flight for a long time...Da Vinci even made mechanical drawings in the 1500s.
"Global Cooling/Global Warming/Global Climate Change."
Global climate change happens...geological and ice core records and evidence of Ice Ages, warm periods etc. confirm this. The real question is not IF Global climate change occurs...it most certainly does, the QUESTION is whether or not humans actually cause it.
"Butter and eggs are bad for you.
"
too much of anything is bad for you...even hifi ;-)
"CD's perfect sound forever."
I doubt the inventors really felt that way...the marketing departments; however, had other ideas...
> > The first two at least predate modern scientific method
> > Da Vinci even made mechanical drawings in the 1500s.
First you disclaim it
Then you validate it
Which is it?
> > Earth is flat. This was not universally believed
By universally do you mean everybody?
Or do you mean general concensus?
I find it hard to find anything
that EVERYBODY believes.
> > Global Cooling/Global Warming/Global Climate Change
I agree but in the 70s it was the coming Ice Age.
In the 90s it was the Ice Caps are melting.
Now it is climate change so no matter if it
rains or doesn't rain, hot or cold, snow or thaw,
tornado or hurricane or whatever is proof.
They do not want to be wrong yet are regularly.
> > Butter and eggs are bad for you
Butter -
That is when margarine was scientifically better for you.
Eggs -
Cholesterol was so bad for you but now it's good.
They never mentioned dosage until now.
> > CD's perfect sound forever.
Technical analysts were claiming that in the day.
Naysayers were deemed as stuck in the past and
could not embrace the future of audio.
DanL
Da Vinci clearly predates modern scientific method...therefore my comment in reply to yours.
By Universal, I mean other than some medieval dark age European idea about a flat earth I don't think that many older or parallel cultures necessarily thought this. They had some other, sometimes wacky, ideas, but not necessarily that the world is flat. Magellen proved it wasn't rather convincingly, no? and that was 1518.
People looking at weather through a microscope are not to be taken seriously. Climate change over centuries is interesting but over eons is more correct. It is a fact that climate swings have become less pronounced in the last 11-12000 years (since the last Ice Ages), which has allowed for the rise of man from hunter/gatherer.
I specifically mentioned dosage because in medicine (I am a development chemist) dosage is just as important as the product itself. There can be a fine line between effectiveness and poisonous. Food is not so different in the end.
"Technical analysts were claiming that in the day.
"
Certainly not all and I am not talking about the press, who regurgitate whatever the PR guys from Philips and Sony wanted them to say, I am talkign about the engineers themselves. Do you think that they thought it was "perfect sound forever"? I somehow doubt it.
When you've done some more thinking, and think you know what a scientific proposition is, please post just one.
For your sake, outside of audio, just for the next few months.
I won't be holding my breath.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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