At 07:56 AM Thursday 5/11/2006, Klaus Stock wrote:
> I don't see how it works this way. Let me propose a defiantly
> non-scientific method for predicting the weather 2 months in advance. It
is
> "ask Jimmy." Let's assume, for reasons unknown, that Jimmy has an uncanny
> ability to predict the local weather two months in advance. We find that
> his prediction of rainfall, snow, wind direction and speed, and
temperature
> range for two months in the future matches the accuracy of the Weather
> Bureau's forecast for the next day. We don't know how it works, but we
can
> prove, through scientific methodology, that "ask Jimmy" is an accurate
means
> of predicting weather 2 months in advance.
More obvious: the direction in which an object moves when you release it.
Numerous experiments show that the object falls towards the ground. We have
a rather solid statistical sampling concerning that behavior. However, no
one can actuall prove that this will be true in every case. Nevertheless, we
assume that there is such a "thing" as gravity, and that we explain a hell
lot of stuff with this "scientifc law".
As every kid learns. (You thought the only reason she pushes her
dinner off the tray of her high chair over and over was to hear you
scream and to laugh while you clean it up?)
Then one day you had the kid a helium balloon . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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