Is there an aether?

[avandonk]

Never mind omnivorr I am sure if you were a hairless cat Peter would still rub you the wrong way! It is his job to make us all feel better because we are not like him.

Tell me Peter when was the last time you Captained a 747. My seventh brother is a Captain for Qantas. Whoops wrong a Check Captain. I took him flying when he was only sixteen in 1979 in a fully aerobatic aircraft.

Bert

[omnivorr]

Hi Bert! No offence taken at all and none intended either from me.

Yes I am a mangey ol toothless tiger ...and I dunno wot that Bishop said to the Actress, ..but in the same vein, ..if I were asked to design a new paint job for QANTAS.. it'd be a big blue one.

anyone whose selfmeasure is by the seat he sits in is headed for a bum steer.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by omnivorr

...in your last post you did not address the point I made about the fact of Einstein's theory preceeding the means to its verification... in answer to your specious "tooth Fairy" remarks.

Ah...I see your point. Sure you make a null hypothesis, but when it is not verified by the data then it is likely the proposed notion is wrong...or at least needs serious modification...is this not how scientific method works?

That said much theory is built on what came before, and without the MM result Albert may have had to ponder a tad longer

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by avandonk

Tell me Peter when was the last time you Captained a 747. My seventh brother is a Captain for Qantas. Whoops wrong a Check Captain. I took him flying when he was only sixteen in 1979 in a fully aerobatic aircraft.

Bert

Bert, I've not met your brother....but see he started with QF about 2 months before me and is on the "747-Classic" fleet.

I'm an F/O on the 747-400 fleet (which you may be aware on which there is a non- vertical promotion policy). I'll be moving to the A380 in August, and probably will have to take a A330 command a year of two after that.....BTW I have command endorsements and ratings on the B767 and B747-400....and had about 3000 hours as a Captain with a regional carrier
before QF.....and logged my 15,000th flight hour at the beginning of this year. I also note I got my private license about a year before yours. Your point?

So...when/where did you get a post-don and teach Phd's ?

[omnivorr]

Bert, .. it takes a big man to 'mea culpa', however slight the error.. ..that damn dog ate my homework more times than yer can ....

Peter...
" Ah...I see your point. Sure you make a null hypothesis, but when it is not verified by the data then it is likely the proposed notion is wrong...or at least needs serious modification...is this not how scientific method works?
"

...is this a veilled concession or a cop-out? .... teeth-out

I've met an AWE-insiring multitude of people who are better than me in every way, Peter, ..but you sofar are not one of'em.....

I'm just a battered lil ego cast up on a shingle, singin my song to thwart the sirens call....

your " So...when/where did you get a post-don and teach Phd's ? " is mere...... deafeningly mere...

....it inspires complete apathy in me... so void is it of any worth....

.... I bet the cabin staff all scramble to be the LUCKY one who gets to scrub the toilets rather than trade grimaces with you.....

YOU may be at 40,000ft but yer flyin solo... no-one wants your Fokker Friendship..... I look forward to the Air Crash Investigation Report about the time when a novice crewmember unthinkingly took a mirror on the flightdeck.......

.....do ya hafta ring the RAA when you get a flat tyre toots?

Cheers Bert

Rusty

[omnivorr]

Zuts, post 11..
" Of course they had no real scientific method and Plato believed that it was possible to deduce all there was to know from an armchair.
"

I cannot in all truth deny my own distaste for the blemished/tarnished version of Plato that I recieved from 'academe'.. but latterly I've esteemed him less with the scales of pedantic ignorance/arrogance blighting my vision....

Take his 'shadows on the wall of the cave' in which we dwell..
..recent neuro-studies report the 'wired' patterns within the visual cortex, and soforth... not having these technological conveniences Proff Rama Chandra et al have the privilidge of, nevertheless Plato enunciated a theorem of cognitive relationalism with respect to sensory postulates, as he interpreted them... to wit:

by sensory deprivation and arbitrary stimuli without cultural/experiential significance, the human mind 'percieves' patterns not dissimilarly between subjects thereto exposed.... hence 'shadows on the cave/ intracranial wall'.... ie, Plato's reputed 'ideals'....exist.. indeed, some 2 1/2 thousand years ago, this man.. perhaps rubbing his eyes too roughly, or p'haps experiencing a migrane headache, ..or whatever.. caught sight of the geometry within.. that now technology can "elucidate" for all who are interested..... watching the tv from their armchairs.....

irony eh?

nevermind the armchairness of astrophotography.. or colliders ....or 747's pffffffft!!!!!!!!!!!

[iceman (Mike)]

When did this thread get so personal?

This isn't the place for it.