tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7370718243007574825..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: The Sublime and the RidiculousSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32251672861932303662018-03-16T02:24:37.819-04:002018-03-16T02:24:37.819-04:00Data from experiments is used to determine which h...Data from experiments is used to determine which hypotheses match reality better. There is zero high energy physics experiment data which speaks to conditions prior to the big bang. With no data, we don't know who or what caused the big bang.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-48812033335355847242018-03-15T15:44:43.745-04:002018-03-15T15:44:43.745-04:00I am seriously jealous of that! Talk about a swee...I am seriously jealous of that! Talk about a sweet plum job assignment. Yeah, every job has elements of suck to it, but - dang - what an environment. <br /><br />When I looked up the company I was really interested in it until I saw the price tag. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-67026028323492827652018-03-15T15:13:39.828-04:002018-03-15T15:13:39.828-04:00Um, that entire opening sentence is one long Straw...Um, that entire opening sentence is one long Straw Man fallacy of <i>yours</i>.<br /><br />There may be a way to state what you intended without falling prey, but that ain't it.<br /><br />Take another whack.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-43763792780825937912018-03-15T15:10:35.237-04:002018-03-15T15:10:35.237-04:00Suffering exists in Creation because God isn't...Suffering exists in Creation because God isn't at fault when you hit your thumb instead of the nail.<br /><br />---<br /><br />BTW, the company in the pic is ZeroG (goZero-G is just their web addy).<br /><br />Zero-G's original aircraft was acquired by them for cheap when a Mexicana cargo operation couldn't keep the plane.<br /><br />I flew with them for the FX shots for <i>Matrix II & III</i> in about 2000, getting $50K worth of free astronaut time in a block of airspace over the Sierras from Bakersfield to Fresno, with Chad Stahelski, Keanu Reeves' spittin' image/stunt double, and director of the <i>John Wick</i> flicks, into the actual Neo coat, to zero-gravity kung-fu moves with about a dozen of the Chinese martial artists who did <i>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</i>. (So unless you're an astronaut, one of their employees, made <i>Apollo XIII</i>, or fly high-performance aircraft, I have probably more zero-G time than *you*.)<br /><br />30 seconds of being Superman, followed by a 3G pullout. Lather, rinse, repeat.<br /><br />Absolute best week of my entire life: two hops a day, land for lunch and refueling, <i>and</i> get paid for it.<br />(Because at 40K', *I* was 9-1-1.)<br /><br />The guys who ran it were the founders, all laid-off NASA guys with between 10-30 years of experience running the <i>actual</i> Vomit Comet, back to the Apollo days.<br /><br />I suggested a couple of things re: Hollywood, and they had a pretty good idea for how to run an adventure-based airline. They now have about 30-40 employees, up from the three guys that started it.<br /><br />Most crushing sadness: I told 'em I'd be their in-flight medic anytime, anywhere, and when they were coming back out to SoCal again, e-mailed me, and I was going to get to go up again, <i>gratis</i>, when they took me up on my offer.<br /><br />So all I had to do was meet them at the airport nearby, on Saturday.<br /><br />September 15th.<br /><br />2001.<br /><br />Still hurts to think about, 16+ years later.<br /><br />I can only imagine what it must have been like for Hawking, wracked with ALS, to do it.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62518978378926455982018-03-15T13:45:45.103-04:002018-03-15T13:45:45.103-04:00It's a bunch of circular argument fallacies fo...It's a bunch of circular argument fallacies for straw man purposes. 'If there is a God, who is understandable like a Man, then I can make more progress reasoning about stuff. If humans are really, really special, then they deserve the attention of the creator of the universe to manage them.' Show me how you justify that first step. Just like 'interpretations of quantum mechanics', the experimental data doesn't speak to it so we shouldn't be believing it.<br /><br />There appear to be two possibilities: 1) God with nothing above or outside, and 2) an infinite regress hierarchy of Gods. Both options appear to be non-sense, because neither answer the "what's outside" question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32018391498412958602018-03-15T12:56:35.109-04:002018-03-15T12:56:35.109-04:00Anon, you make a fine point. I'd say that was ...Anon, you make a fine point. I'd say that was very "unscientific" of him. Although it does seem that some people who see the suffering (in Hawking's case, who experienced it via disease)in the world assume that there cannot be a "good" Creator if suffering exists in His creation.<br /><br />They ignore the wisdom of Eliphas Levi, who explains: "Man accepts suffering in order to be free."<br /><br />Hard for those who don't really "get" God/Free-Will to understand.The Gunslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09875467049527347640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-24290939166623323342018-03-15T05:00:21.478-04:002018-03-15T05:00:21.478-04:00Experimental evidence Hawking possessed about caus...Experimental evidence Hawking possessed about causes prior to the Big Bang: None. Given no evidence, why should he come to a conclusion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-40587735968991650152018-03-15T00:32:44.517-04:002018-03-15T00:32:44.517-04:00And Isaac Newton was born 12 days after Galileo di...And Isaac Newton was born 12 days after Galileo died. Almost makes you wonder if there is, or will be soon, a little kid who'll discover the Next Big Thing.<br /><br />Unified Field Theory, anyone?<br /><br />Seems like the current crop of Top Scientists are people of non-faith. I wonder if that's because of what the lying, mainstream, corrupt, elite media chose to promote, or if they of non-faith are really in the majority.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com