[EggsAckley]

Time flies like an arrow

Fruit flies like bananas

[maxwell]

the fly conducts its complicated movements with relatively few neurons.

Sounds like some people I know.

[Cicero]

"For over 100 years," he said, "we've been studying insects and we still don't know how they walk. Either insects are not simple or the people that study them are stupid."

He said he much preferred the first premise.

[unspun]

BTW, this...

Where the new technologies will lead is, of course, unknown. In fact, when asked for her thoughts on the potential unintended consequences of the technology that Dr. Dickinson and others use, Ms. Solnit relied on the now famous formula of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In a news conference, Mr. Rumsfeld categorized threats yet to be discovered in the world as "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns." The latter, in Rumsfeldian epistemology, are things "we don't know we don't know."

"The wonderful thing about a new technology like this," Ms. Solnit said, "is that it brings us into the unknown unknowns."

...seems to be an offshoot of the "Four Box" study of competence and consciousness, that I was told by someone that Jack Kerouac devised, although that sounds just a little peculiar to me. As it goes, about any given involvement, one can be one of these things:

consciously competent	consciously incompetent
unconscioiusly competent	unconsciously incompetent

The point is that it is good to ascertain in what involvement one may become conscious he is incompetent.

And that, as Secretary Rumsfeld so well knows, is very important, for operations military or otherwise.

$.10 for the advise, coins accepted.

[AndrewC]

I don't know if the scaling is valid. Gases compress "easily", liquids "don't".