On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:16:37PM -0700, Philip McConnell wrote:
> Dunno. You may be over complicating the issues. Japanese garbage is
> making it all the way across the Pacific with no power or guidance or
> even basic seaworthiness.
Not a reasonable comparison. Scale makes a lot of difference. Launch
10,000 of his boats, and at least some of them will make it (that, or a
couple of 1000'-long automated ships.) That's not what's being
discussed, though.
> Of course when you TRY to make something happen. . .
Yep, that would be the other huge difference. Kids are born all the
time, but just try to force two specific cells to replicate - good luck
with that!
(That being one of the key fallacies in the Watchmaker argument, I
shouldn't be surprised by how few people actually get how huge of a gap
that is...)
Ben
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