>>>Declaring the world sucks is a philosophical position. Offering it as an alternative explanation for gravity is guaranteed to marginalize you as a scientist.
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>>Your last line is the funniest thing I have ever read on the UT. I'm still laughing...
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>For various reasons, the front hall in my parents' house was without paint or wallpaper for a period of years when I was growing up and became a graffiti wall. I don't remember most of the items, but one that has stuck with me was "There is no gravity. The earth sucks."
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>Tamar
I first saw that on a button in Georgetown in the 60s and in fact that is what I was thinking of in my paraphrase.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
