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Politics : The Castle
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To: TimF who wrote (5582)9/3/2010 9:59:53 PM
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its more observation than controlled experiment, but almost all of astronomy is based on observation rather than experiment and it (unlike economics) is considered a "hard science".

I think this is the point. We need to learn as much as possible from the existing, known historical lessons - through observation and analysis. Hoping for statistical proofs would be impractical.... human history moves faster than galactic events, but still too slow... :)
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