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5 Sep 2024 19:25:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Now that's cool  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Aug 2009 19:46:26
Message: <4a971ad2@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook schrieb:
> Still am.  Observation being one thing and actuality being another, 
> things do happen simultaneously.  Saying that they don't because you 
> can't have an 'outside' frame of reference is hubris, imo.  Like saying 
> nothing in the universe exists outside the radius of light being able to 
> travel since the big bang, with the observer (us) at the centre.  It's 
> the whole earth-centric universe all over again.

Yes, but this time we have a solid scientific reason: Because /we/ are 
living on the earth, and it's where /our/ frame of reference happens to 
be "centered" at.

So what's wrong with /us earthlings/ to be earth-centric? (After all, 
that's the place where the vast majority of us is bound to be living in 
for the next couple of millennia - so maybe a bit more earth-centricity 
would do us some good, or we may not make it that long.)


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