home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!cochiti.lanl.gov!jlg
- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.191925.13007@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:19:25 GMT
- References: <C13z8K.J5q@apollo.hp.com> <serb.352@polisci.umn.edu> <1993Jan20.231528.25880@newshost.lanl.gov> <1993Jan26.071539.12522@timesink.chi.il.us>
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Lines: 25
-
- In article <1993Jan26.071539.12522@timesink.chi.il.us>, mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan20.231528.25880@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@sahara.lanl.gov (J. Giles) writes:
- |> >[...]
- |> >That was one of the most comical sequences I've ever encountered. These
- |> >alians conduct a discussion with the human character in an ordered sequence
- |> >of topics, inferences, etc. and yet claim to be ignorant of the nature of
- |> >time. If they can conduct an ordered interview, they know of time.
- |> [...]
- |> It was only PRESENTED that way so you, a mere human, could comprehend
- |> the purely mental exchange of ideas between the characters in a linear
- |> fashion... You are so arrogant in your ignorance! (-8
-
- Oh, so the only sensible point of the exchange was that if there existed
- beings who didn't understand time, we would have trouble communicating?
- What's profound about that?
-
- |> PS> By the way... you really backpedaled on the issue "people who view
- |> Star Trek regularly are intellectually inferior to my well-read self".
-
- Because I didn't take such a position, I didn't backpedal. You should
- learn to read the attribution line on news articles and not lump all
- people on roughly the same side of an issue into *one* person.
-
- --
- J. Giles
-