For a thread titled "How to start another war..." we don't seem to be accomplishing much. :-)

Looks to me like most of the people with an interest in SETI are smart enough to realize that points of view can be valid and/or interesting, even if you don't agree with them.

Which doesn't seem entirely consistent with another recent thread. :-)

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For a thread titled "How to start another war..." we don't seem to be accomplishing much. :-)

Looks to me like most of the people with an interest in SETI are smart enough to realize that points of view can be valid and/or interesting, even if you don't agree with them.

Which doesn't seem entirely consistent with another recent thread. :-)

I wonder what thread that would be? ;)

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Group hug! Peace love and granola.

Ooooooooohhhhhhhh I SEE!!! Boys are "special"! That's it!!! I get it now... very, very special.

... and handy to have around if a Raccoon needs to be chased up a tree.

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Ooooooooohhhhhhhh I SEE!!! Boys are "special"! That's it!!! I get it now... very, very special.

... and handy to have around if a Raccoon needs to be chased up a tree.

My daughter just got her P. Eng., travels the world on business, and will spend all day up to her knees in mud yelling at construction workers, but says she needs to get married so she will have somebody around to kill spiders.

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For a thread titled "How to start another war..." we don't seem to be accomplishing much. :-)

Looks to me like most of the people with an interest in SETI are smart enough to realize that points of view can be valid and/or interesting, even if you don't agree with them.

Which doesn't seem entirely consistent with another recent thread. :-)

I wonder what thread that would be? ;)

Note that I did say "most". Maybe we have in-house candidates for "re-education"?

SETI - making the world a better place, one ignoramus at a time.

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For a thread titled "How to start another war..." we don't seem to be accomplishing much. :-)

Looks to me like most of the people with an interest in SETI are smart enough to realize that points of view can be valid and/or interesting, even if you don't agree with them.

Which doesn't seem entirely consistent with another recent thread. :-)

I wonder what thread that would be? ;)

Note that I did say "most". Maybe we have in-house candidates for "re-education"?

SETI - making the world a better place, one ignoramus at a time.

Oh, oh! Can I volunteer to be the first ignoramus to be edumacated? :)

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Oh, oh! Can I volunteer to be the first ignoramus to be edumacated? :)

Of course, grasshopper. Try to snatch this pebble from my hand....

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How to start another war...

ok

it's a man's world but the women run it

;-)

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How to start another war...

ok

it's a man's world but the women run it

;-)

I'd just like to point out that JLH does speak on behalf of all Canadians, or necessarily represent a true Canadian point of view.

My wife told me to say that.

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How to start another war...

ok

it's a man's world but the women run it

;-)

I'd just like to point out that JLH does ??? speak on behalf of all Canadians, or necessarily represent a true Canadian point of view.

My wife told me to say that.

ROFL. Didn't you omit a quite critical word there?

F.

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How to start another war...

ok

it's a man's world but the women run it

;-)

I'd just like to point out that JLH does ??? speak on behalf of all Canadians, or necessarily represent a true Canadian point of view.

My wife told me to say that.

ROFL. Didn't you omit a quite critical word there?

F.

Freudian slip. don't tell my wife!

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Freudian slip. don't tell my wife!

I had a Freudian slip once, but I gained a little weight and it stopped looking good under my clothes, so I gave it away...

In my experience anybody can be taught to read a map, but they have to want to be taught (as with most things). I told my wife she had to learn, because I will NEVER stop and ask for directions. Ever. So far it is working, but we have only been at it for 36 years.
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I've also noted that people seem to fall into 2 categories. Those with good spatial imaging abilities (the ability to picture objects and their relationships in 3D, and from various angles) take quickly to map reading, 3D CAD design, wire harness and pipe routing, and navigation in general. The others (maybe 75% of the population in my experience) struggle with these concepts, but they can be taught.

I’m lousy at spatial visualization/manipulation, but I’m pretty good with maps and (when on foot outdoors, anyway) at orienting myself. Ask me whether a left or right turn will be wanted at a given point on a route, and I have to think about it for a while—or turn the map around—but I’m quite comfortable with compass-points & bearings. Using a star-chart is no problem when observing naked-eye or with binoculars, but I almost always start off in the wrong direction when moving a telescope. If I disassemble a gadget, first time I can rarely put it back together without a great many tries or false starts, and I’m hopeless at Rubik’s Cube. On IQ tests that give separate scores for various categories of question, I don’t do nearly as well in the spatial/mechanical area as in the verbal or logical/numerical.

Re. heavy metal, I’ve generally thought of Black Sabbath & Deep Purple (UK), with Iron Butterfly (US), as the earliest practitioners. I’m not much of a country fan, to say the least, but as a Canadian I feel obligated to put in a plug for Hank Snow, originally a Maritimer. I doubt I could even recognize Dolly Parton—in an audio-only medium, that is. ;)

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apparently idiots abound

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Care to elaborate on that statement at all, or would you just prefer to insult everyone instead?

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eh Ozz - see Ozzie

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

eh Ozz - see Ozzie

Heh.. too bad that's not the real Ozzy.

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eh Ozz - see Ozzie

Heh.. too bad that's not the real Ozzy.

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BOINC Wiki . . .

Science Status Page . . .

I've never met a "Canadian." Personally, I think they're an urban myth.