Re: Small enough- to be zero?

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Small enough- to be zero?
Date	2016-07-24 10:52 +1000
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On 24/07/2016 7:01 AM, benj wrote:
> On 7/22/2016 9:57 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 22/07/2016 4:54 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 21/07/2016 4:11 AM, john wrote:
>>>>> Some posters, here, think that
>>>>> at small enough scales, there
>>>>> are no more particles. Just energy
>>>>> of some sort, I suppose.
>>>>> I'm guessing these are the same
>>>>> ones who deny that organization
>>>>> might be found on a Cosmic scale.
>>>>> And, probably, the same ones
>>>>> who think that Humans are a total fluke
>>>>> on our Earth alone, and chances
>>>>> of it happening on some other planet
>>>>> are nil to none. And probably, also,
>>>>> total atheists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Just trying to see the pattern:
>>>>> they're in pattern-denial
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We have no basis for forming a view about the likelihood  of
>>>> intelligent
>>>> life on other planets. All we know about intelligent life (and indeed
>>>> life at all) is that it's possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, is that it's impossible.
>>
>> Unless you think that life on Earth is not intelligent, then you know
>> that intelligent life is possible, because it exists on Earth.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>>
> I've seen little evidence of intelligent life on earth. ESPECIALLY on
> the INTERNET!
>
> Say you were an alien life form and the posts of STarfaker and HVAC were
> all you ever saw. What possible conclusion could you draw?

That there was something capable of language, using some kind of 
technology to send, or generate, messages.

One may not think much of their contributions, but they're still 
evidence of intelligent life.

Sylvia.

Thread

Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 11:11 -0700
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 13:18 -0500
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-20 12:57 -0700
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-20 16:30 -0500
    Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 14:45 -0700
      Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:06 -0700
        Re: Small enough- to be zero? noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:16 -0700
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:42 -0700
            Re: Small enough- to be zero? noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:59 -0700
        Re: Small enough- to be zero? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:58 -0700
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 16:32 -0700
            Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-20 18:39 -0500
              Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 17:03 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-20 20:06 -0500
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-21 14:20 +0000
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 07:51 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 08:25 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 16:36 -0400
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-07-22 14:05 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-07-22 14:52 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-21 15:25 +0000
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 11:25 -0700
                Re: Small enough- to be zero? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-22 00:48 +0000
                haxacontaDELTAhedronic noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 13:47 -0700
                stab a guess (or an i.s.i.s): hexacontaDELTAhedron a.k.a C_sixty noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 11:52 -0700
                stab a guess (or those flamethrowers): hexacontaDELTAhedron a.k.a C_sixty noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 19:27 -0700
            Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-20 20:55 -0400
              Re: Small enough- to be zero? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 18:04 -0700
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-20 20:37 -0400
            Re: Small enough- to be zero? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 07:44 -0700
              Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 16:33 -0400
        Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-20 18:39 -0500
        Re: Small enough- to be zero? "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-07-24 02:08 -0700
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? "Eduardo J. Berringer" <invalid@example.com> - 2016-07-24 11:21 -0700
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-07-24 12:48 -0700
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 09:39 -0700
    Re: Small enough- to be zero? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 15:21 -0700
      Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 16:49 -0400
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-22 12:04 +1000
    Re: Small enough- to be zero? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-21 23:54 -0700
      Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-23 11:57 +1000
        Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 17:01 -0400
          Re: Small enough- to be zero? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-24 10:52 +1000
            Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 21:25 -0400
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 18:09 -0700
  Re: Small enough- to be zero? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 13:31 -0700
    Re: Small enough- to be zero? benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 17:20 -0400

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