On 02/11/2009 09:30 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote:
[snip]
We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so
much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet
spins. How bazaar!
How can you make such a comment when you have *no clue* as to
what any other entity does?
RE: "probably"
Wasn't it Carl Sagen who caculated that there "probably" are other
intellegent life forms in the universe, out of all those billions
and billions of possibilities?
Sagan (correct spelling) was quite clear in articles and at least
once when I heard him speak that he did not use the term "billions
and billions." The only time he used that term was when saying,
"I've never said, 'Billions and Billions,'" or when saying it to
satisfy someone who just had to hear him say it. He liked to point
out that it was an incredibly vague term that he would not use.
Hmph.
I *remember* him saying "billions and billions" back on /Cosmos/.
Yeah, well, I've seen what you remember about political figures. I hear
ginkgo biloba is good for that.
Going to IMDB, I see that what he really said was the quite similar
"billions upon billions".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/quotes
Says "billions UPON billions of stars."
Look up 5 lines to see that I wrote the same thing.
Since when did you start counting web sources like IMDB or Wikipedia as
authoritative?
You've got to trust somebody, sometimes. Otherwise, writing would
have little meaning other than as a vector for fiction.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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