MB>>
MB> MB> You must be one of those who think that there had to be a First 
Message.
MB> KK> we can never know the _exact_ nature of the FM event, but in science
MB> KK> you have to accept the fact that statistical and probabilistic
MB> KK> knowledge is sometimes all you can know.
MB> That's only a statistical and probablistic theoretical assessment of
MB> what we can know scientifically about the possible existence of the
MB> First Message, probably, at least, as far as I know, I think.
Wow!  I wish _I_ could write a sentence like that!
MB> KK> There are some cranks who claim that the FM could have been just
MB> KK> something like "Hey Arnie, did you get this?"  Even creationists
MB> KK> reject this because surely, they say, the FM must have had more
MB> KK> meaning.  But science rejects it because those who profess it
MB> KK> do not use big Latin words to name things.
MB> I just want to know who Arnie is, and whether or not he got it.
Arnie is clearly one of the Creators.  And given that in the earliest
stages of the FM event the quantum variable Baud was set at 150, it is
likely that Arnie has not and will never get the FM.  Think of how many
books we can get out of the Tragedy of a Creator whose Creation
prevents him from ever getting the FM.
 * SLMR 2.1a *   Earth:  Love it or leave it.
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