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to: Charles Angelich
from: Curtis Johnson
date: 2003-03-08 01:17:20
subject: Columbia`s `computers`

CJ> Welcome to the world of astrophysics, which you seem not to
 CJ> have paid much attention to for many decades, though that
 CJ> does not seem to have prevented you from commenting on it
 CJ> as if you had knowledge. 

 CA> --8<--cut 
 
 CA>> No, never. I was raised on a mountain top by Anglican
 CA>> monks who did not think that worldly matters were of any
 CA>> importance. 
 
 CJ> You do seem to have paid less than sufficient attention to
 CJ> matters of astrophysics and space exploration to comment on
 CJ> them as magisterially and fallaciously as you did. 

 CA> I wasn't aware this was _your_ universe? 

	It isn't anybody's universe in particular.  That's
why the impersonality of physics works, and why engineers
can rely upon physical law to produce such things as the
computer and monitor you're reading this on.

 CA> Are you upset because you or some family member needs NASA
 CA> welfare checks or have you bumped your head and think you
 CA> created all this? 

 CA> btw: I don't think "magisterially" is actually a word. 
 
	American College Dictionary, in the entry for "magisterial"
lists it as the adverb form.  First dictionary I checked, do you
think I should quote dictionary after dictionary at you?

  



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