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>Day Brown wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 DB> On 03-09-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Keith Knapp... 
 MB>  You have done a marvelous job of supporting my point.  There is no 
 MB>  such thing as "perfection" in the real world.  That is what I've 
 MB>  pointed out numerous times.  But perfection is just precisely like 
 MB>  an infinity - it's out there - we just never get there.  And without 
 MB>  the ideal of perfection - we would not ever achieve orbits at all. 
 DB> I dunno Mark. Is an Atom *real*?  When the IBM engineers placed 
 DB> the gold atoms on a carbon matrix, they lined up *perfectly* all 
 DB> in a perfectly straight line along the bonds of the crystaline 
 DB> substrate, each obeying the laws of cohesion, and placed exactly 
 DB> the same distance apart.   
 DB> 
 DB> What more perfection could you ask for? 
 I could ask that people do the same thing - obey the laws of cohesion -
 but this is improbable.
 
... Darwin was wrong.  Any idiot can survive.
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