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From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
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kenseto <setoken@att.net> writes:

>On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 11:11:03 AM UTC-5, Michael Moroney wrote:

>> >No moron....you need a human to qualify as an observer.
>> 
>> No, Stupid Ken. You don't get to redefine how physicists define an 
>> observer. TV cameras and other measuring devices on the pucks qualify
>> as observers to science.  Nobody cares about how you try to redefine
>> science terms.
>> 
>> These days, science is so complex that a human almost _never_ observes
>> anything directly any more.  Every observation is observed and measured by
>> some sort of measurement equipment or other.

>Idiot that's why the human observer uses theories and measurements to 
>predict observations.

You got that backwards, Stupid Ken. You don't predict observations, you
make observations to support or refute your theory.

> Tp claim that a piece of equipment is an observer 
>is stupid.

Maybe in Stupid Ken-speak, but to real scientists observations by
equipment are extremely valuable.  Scientists always use equipment as
observers when they can.

Fortunately, scientists never use Stupid Ken-speak.