Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliveb.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!long
From: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Handwaving
Message-ID: <573@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 23:31:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.573
Posted: Fri Aug 23 23:31:35 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:01:08 EDT
References: <14600042@hpfcrs.UUCP>
Reply-To: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
Lines: 24
Summary: 

In article <14600042@hpfcrs.UUCP> lief@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
> in explaining to me why the bumble-bee can fly?  Or why man uses less than
> 1/6 th of his brain?  Or perhaps share with us the chemical formula and
> the synthetic equations needed to produce life from non life?  Perhaps
> give us the calculations that tell us why this planet has an atmosphere
> of Nitrogen and Oxygen and the others don't.  How about using the "TOOLS
> OF PHYSICS" to tell me why I am writing this?

    Would you mind showing me that man uses 1/6th of his brain?  (Which is
*not* a Physics question)  Perhaps you can also tell me why "TOOLS OF PHYS-
ICS" are in any way connected with why you wrote that?
    Also, I'm sure that there are some people out there who can show how this
planet wound up with a N & O atmosphere.  Try going to a local university and
asking around.
    As for the bumblebee:  If a solution for its flight does not exist or
*did* not exist, it may exist *now*, or may be found sometime in the future.
Just because the "bumblebees cannot fly" statement was made at one time does
not mean that the basic question of bumblebee flight is unsolvable.  I would
like you to explain why nobody will ever explain why bumblebees fly.

    Handwaving?  No, I'm just ducking the issues.... :-)
							Dave Long
-- 
{hplabs,fortune,idi,ihnp4,tolerant,allegra,tymix}!oliveb!long