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On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:35:43 AM UTC-6, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/18/2014 6:46 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 2/18/14, 4:33 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


On 2/17/2014 11:07 PM, Tim wrote:










Science often unearths more questions than it answers.




Isn't that one of the points of "doing" science?








It would really be interesting to be around 100 or 200 years from now

and be able to look back at commonly accepted beliefs held today. I'll

betcha many things we subscribe to today will be radically changed.


I couldn't agree more, Rich.



According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, we now create as much information

every two days as we did from the dawn of man through 2003. Granted,

much of it is meaningless but that's still a lot of data.


A physicist told me in 1973 that the center of what was known then to the discovery of electricity was approx. 1967.

That was then. and this is now...