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From: dorayme on 19 Jun 2010 17:54 In article <hvideb$4o0$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-18-2010 22:09, dorayme wrote: > > In article > > <michelle-C09644.18540718062010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > > Michelle Steiner<michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > >> In article<dorayme-BFFC74.10062319062010(a)news.albasani.net>, > >> dorayme<dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > >> > >>>> Because if the Sun didn't come up tomorrow, the world will be ending. > >>> > >>> How do you work that out? > >> > >> Please provide a scenario where the sun doesn't come up, but the world > >> isn't ending. > > > > My home ET civilization sends a team with a great sense of humour > > over this way, they stick up a screen to blot out the sun for an > > hour or two one otherwise fine morning - long enough to lose me > > the bet and make a mad rich man with a taste for photography > > happy... > > You'd ship the whole collection within one or two hours > and not even stall a little? I never welch on a bet so I would allow him to collect. Maybe I would fall down low before him in an undignified way and plead to let me keep just one or two or three... no... to let me borrow one or two or three for just a while... -- dorayme
From: dorayme on 19 Jun 2010 18:08 In article <hvidjh$4o0$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-18-2010 22:38, Thomas R. Kettler wrote: > > Here's a way where the sun doesn't "come up" with the world not ending. > > It happens already with Mercury. It also happens with the moon relative > > to us. Since they are much smaller than the sun and the earth, > > respectively, they are synchronized such that they revolve and rotate at > > the same rate so they only show the same side. Thus, a "day" and a > > "year" are the same length of time. > > When all the atmosphere is frozen on the dark side, and all flammable > or plastic materials gone from the light side, the photo collection > is still of no use to either part in the bet. This is not true either. A rich mad man might rejoice in the remnants or traces or non-photographic aspects of my collection. -- dorayme
From: Wes Groleau on 19 Jun 2010 19:53 On 06-19-2010 18:08, dorayme wrote: > Wes Groleau<Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: >> On 06-18-2010 22:38, Thomas R. Kettler wrote: >>> Here's a way where the sun doesn't "come up" with the world not ending. >>> It happens already with Mercury. It also happens with the moon relative >>> to us. Since they are much smaller than the sun and the earth, >>> respectively, they are synchronized such that they revolve and rotate at >>> the same rate so they only show the same side. Thus, a "day" and a >>> "year" are the same length of time. >> >> When all the atmosphere is frozen on the dark side, and all flammable >> or plastic materials gone from the light side, the photo collection >> is still of no use to either part in the bet. > > This is not true either. A rich mad man might rejoice in the > remnants or traces or non-photographic aspects of my collection. Not for very long, . . . -- Wes Groleau Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before ... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. -- Kurt Vonnegut
From: Wes Groleau on 19 Jun 2010 19:55 On 06-19-2010 17:54, dorayme wrote: >>> My home ET civilization sends a team with a great sense of humour >>> over this way, they stick up a screen to blot out the sun for an >>> hour or two one otherwise fine morning - long enough to lose me >>> the bet and make a mad rich man with a taste for photography >>> happy... >> >> You'd ship the whole collection within one or two hours >> and not even stall a little? > > I never welch on a bet so I would allow him to collect. Maybe I > would fall down low before him in an undignified way and plead to > let me keep just one or two or three... no... to let me borrow > one or two or three for just a while... And you wouldn't reclaim it as soon as you learn it had been a hoax? -- Wes Groleau Amigos Falsos http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=108
From: dorayme on 19 Jun 2010 21:31
In article <hvjld5$m7u$3(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-19-2010 17:54, dorayme wrote: > >>> My home ET civilization sends a team with a great sense of humour > >>> over this way, they stick up a screen to blot out the sun for an > >>> hour or two one otherwise fine morning - long enough to lose me > >>> the bet and make a mad rich man with a taste for photography > >>> happy... > >> > >> You'd ship the whole collection within one or two hours > >> and not even stall a little? > > > > I never welch on a bet so I would allow him to collect. Maybe I > > would fall down low before him in an undignified way and plead to > > let me keep just one or two or three... no... to let me borrow > > one or two or three for just a while... > > And you wouldn't reclaim it as soon as you learn it had been a hoax? The bet was that the sun would not come up in the morning as usual and I would lose full stop and fair dinkum and no sweat mate. One must have a broad understanding of these things when betting on a handshake with an Australian. Thank you, Wes, for your concern that I should hold on to my photos but don't worry, there is as much chance of the sun not coming up tomorrow as that some ET jokers would do their stunt tomorrow or that a god exists. Imagine a theist being prepared to bet on any of his so called beliefs. When did the last reasonably comfortable person who predicted the end of the world tomorrow, for example, bet that if it did *not* happen we could have all he owned? If there really could be a test whether a god existed, I doubt that prior to the revelation of the results of the test, many so called believers would bet on it. Most religious people are simply deluded and merely think that they believe rather than believe. -- dorayme |