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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:32:21 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32903 - #32904
From: Freeposity <>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Freeposity <> wrote:
> From: 
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:00:54 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Reason 2
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> Content-Language: en
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> Why  successful uploading is unlikely, ever.
> Reason  2.  Bad physics. The simulation MUST be  erroneous in some ways and
>>some degree, because the program necessarily is based  on current knowledge
>>or guesses about physics, some of which is certainly wrong  or incomplete,
>>and this will be true for a long time to come. The importance of  these

>>errors is yet uncertain, but their existence is not. Remember that just  about
>>all of the once-dominant "laws" of physics have eventually been shown to  be
>>wrong, inaccurate or incomplete.
>>It continues to amaze me that most people not only have  not considered
>>this fact, but do not acknowledge it even when  told.
>>Robert  Ettinger
>
> Such lovely bio bias is reminiscent of the following
>
> Sir John Erichsen (1873):
>
> "There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there
> must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from
> its intrusions, at least in the surgeon's hands. That we have already,
> if not quite, reached these final limits, there can be little
> question. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut
> from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."
>
>
>
> Freep
>
>
> "Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
>

I would like to add that even a genius can make profoundly wrong
statements about the ability of man to manipulate and understand his
environment. ----


A quick Google search shows: On 29 December 1934, Albert Einstein was
quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as saying,

"There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever
be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered
at will."

This followed the discovery that year by Enrico Fermi that if you
bombard uranium with neutrons, the uranium atoms split up into lighter
elements, releasing energy.


Source: at 
http://spiritualdeepdish.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/10-impossibilities-conquered-by-science/
along with 11,000 other hits for "It would mean that the atom would
have to be shattered at will"





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