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To: conejo99
Believing that anything can either travel faster than the speed of light or somehow bypass intervening space is probably wrong.

In others words, science is settled, eh?

As you know, throughout history, men, scientists even, have said the same thing about discoveries and inventions.

The Sun revolves around the Earth, heavy than air machines will never fly, "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

And then there's this (in "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly," NY Times, October 9, 1903):

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[Back in 1903, the venerable New York Times boldly declared that] Airplanes will take between 1 and 10 million years to develop.


61 posted on 03/09/2024 11:13:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“In others words, science is settled, eh?”
No, I said ‘probably”. I also explained why I thought so. I could be wrong, of course, but so could you.


62 posted on 03/09/2024 11:20:25 AM PST by conejo99
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