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To: Physicist
I still owe you another sci-fi reference, BTW.


Beyond that, I was commenting on the fact that your story about FTL communication makes it clear to me that you lost me from the start. You repeated it inanely, as if I had overlooked it the first time. In case you haven't figured it out, I noticed it the first time, it's not relevant, you were being presumptuous and absurdly condescending, and you expect far too much for your trouble. Spare me your ignorance in the future, please.
352 posted on 07/18/2002 11:05:28 AM PDT by apochromat
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To: apochromat
Beyond that, I was commenting on the fact that your story about FTL communication makes it clear to me that you lost me from the start.

There's no need to get angry. If there's something you don't understand, just ask. If it's something you do understand, there's no harm done, because you're not the only person who reads these discussions. I don't know what you know and what you don't. But I can tell you that the average reader doesn't know this stuff.

You repeated it inanely, as if I had overlooked it the first time.

I didn't merely repeat it. The key to the whole problem--which is the very fact that people fail to grasp, in my experience--is that Bob and Alice don't share the same axis of simultaneity. I wanted to make that clear. Perhaps you already knew that, or perhaps you just don't give a damn. But a layman trying to follow the discussion--you included, for all I know--would need to know it.

you expect far too much for your trouble.

Now who's being presumptuous? How do you know what I expect?

353 posted on 07/18/2002 12:25:16 PM PDT by Physicist
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