On 10 July 2014 15:04, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/9/2014 6:48 PM, LizR wrote: > >> Obviously I was talking about space-borne teapots orbiting the Sun >> independently of any that are sitting on planets. Either that or I forgot >> it was supposed to be Jupiter (did I mention my terrible short term memory >> already?). >> >> Or maybe I went back to the original, where the teapot is orbiting the >> Sun in the asteroid belt, if I remember correctly, but didn't bother to >> type "in the asteroid belt". As you've now forced me to do - twice, damn it. >> > > I don't actually know that it's "the original", but I first read the > example in something by Bertrand Russell which was written in 1952. >
Wikipedia agrees with you (and with me about the asteroid belt, I'm glad to say). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
