[ExI] LA Times: 'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku
Henrique Moraes Machado
cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 17:21:46 UTC 2008
>>But this stochastic thing reminds me of a Russel's Teapot comic
>>http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/omni-impotence.html
Damien> That would kill me stone dead if I thought for a moment there was an
> omnipotent deity behind psi, or behind the effectiveness of aspirin
> on heart attacks, or any other multifactorial effect with low power.
Not AT ALL what I meant.
The joke I was aiming for is that these so called psi phaenomena also
manifest only in the very edge of statistical significance. But once you
have to explain a joke then it's not funny at all.
I seem to get people misunderstanding me all the time these days...
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