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- From: btd@iastate.edu (Benjamin T Dehner)
- Subject: Re: Cosmos without Gravitation
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:00:54 GMT
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- In <725930661@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
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- >: From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- >: Message-ID: <1992Dec28.133106.22923@linus.mitre.org>
- >: In _Cosmos_Without_Gravitation_, Immanuel Velikovsky writes:
- >: > Phenomena not in accordance with the Theory of Gravitation:
- >: I would say, not in accordance with his understanding...
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- ...
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- >The point is, Velikovsky, and Ted much like him, sees things in little
- >black and white pseudo-logical categories. They use fuzzy, qualitative
- >reasoning in places where many conflicting quantatively graded effects
- >are involved, and then by sheer assertion pick one of these effects and
- >pronounce it dominant over all the others, without ever going to the
- >trouble of calculating ANY of the effects involved.
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- Several times I have requested models/calculations from Mr. Holden,
- with no result. As a specific example, I have asked for model atmospheres
- of Venus which SHOW that pure solar energy cannot give the observed tempera-
- ture profile. As we are only now begining to understand global atmospheric
- dynamics, I find it unlikely that this request will ever be answered.
-
- >--
- >Wayne Throop ...!mcnc!dg-rtp!sheol!throopw
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