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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Reluctant call moder(and sci.physics.research-NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.174745.28702@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:47:45 GMT
- References: <D0s0VB1w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> <1992Dec24.074121.11426@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <SRCTRAN.92Dec24112819@world.std.com>
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- In article <SRCTRAN.92Dec24112819@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
- >Yea, well maybe the tag team was exposed to a little physics, if nothing
- >else. It sure beats the horoscopes they are exposed to everyday.
-
- You forget, no one in the room knows any. Besides, they're too busy
- consuming erasers. At this point, the local guide drops by with
- a tour group. They see equations on the board, but no one in the
- room can explain them. They conclude that science consists of writing
- indecipherable hieroglyphics, belching and eating erasers.
-
- > It is the hope of many that the Internet over time be more accessible
- >to the general public, so that more people can benefit from this valuable
- >information resource. The downside is that more people will have access
- >to USENET, which will lead to more "stupid" questions and "stupid" postings.
- >Hopefully areas like sci.physics won't be flooded with such stuff.
- >And if so, I think it is not a high price to pay to have to deal with
- >these distractions from "serious" physics. Physicists in general do a
- >lousy job of explaining physics to the general public, and can learn much
- >from the "stupid" questions that are posted, in terms of public misconceptions.
-
- 'Stupid questions' do not appear to be the problem.
-
- dale bass
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