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To: koan who wrote (10710)	2/13/2017 10:29:37 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356434

>> If you went to the top 100 universities in the world and just walked in and talk to the top atmospheric scientists in that university and asked him if anthropogenic global warming was real, they would laugh at your face and say of course its real. Once, during a public lecture, he [Richard Feynman] was trying to explain why one must not verify an idea using the same data that suggested the idea in the first place. Seeming to wander off the subject, Feynman began talking about license plates. “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!” - DAVID L. GOODSTEIN, From the Introduction, "Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time", Richard P. Feynman, et al.