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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Subject: Re: Toutatis Captured by Radar Images
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:47:30 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.183636.7525@sfu.ca> Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca> writes:
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- >>[Pointed out that artist Carl Barks first suggested that some asteroids
- >> might consist of "rubble piles", so perhaps they should be named
- >>for him]
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- >I also wanted to comment on this suggestion. Who needs an artist? Nature
- >herself has given us an exemplar - Miranda, the enigmatic inner satellite
- >of Uranus. These violent collisions may be said to "Mirandize" a minor
- >planet. (Since that neologism seems to have entered the lexicon already
- >from a different direction, such collisions could be confused with police
- >brutality.)
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- Not to mention primacy: Barks depicted an asteroid as a
- "rubble pile" in March, 1960, long before anyone knew that Miranda had
- such a nature. Of course, his was just a lucky guess and not a
- consequence of any theory of asteroid formation (he also showed
- a fluid/plastic asteroid, and others modified by intelligence...)
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- >>(By the way: is the exploded planet idea a consequence of [TVF's]
- >>Meta Theory?)
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- >Mr. Schumacher, you are guilty of reification in the first degree.
- >Historical events cannot be consequences of subsequently propounded
- >theories. If logical convention did not prohibit it then violation of
- >causality would!
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- (! You're kidding, right?)
- I think you misunderstand: TVF predicts a high proportion of contact
- binary asteroids and suggests an exploded planet as the source of
- them. I wanted to know whether these ideas were consequences
- of his "Meta Theory", and whether that theory explains how a planet
- might explode. No reification involved.
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