<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:40 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> Spike </span>I am confused.  Your post seems to suggest that academic achievement is somehow being suppressed. </font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I'm confused that you're confused. The fact <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">is that </span>the destruction of the Thirty Meter Telescope has suppressed our knowledge of the universe which the telescope would have been starting to tell us right now were it not for the activities of barbarians.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Ignorance has defeated knowledge.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font><br>
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