[at-l] wha' we don't know.....

[Jim Bullard]

Yeah. Felix and I understand each other.

Jim Bullard
http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Rosalind Suit <rosalind.suit at verizon.net>wrote:

>  i think that some humans think that chaos theory can describe something
> about how weather behaves; and i think weather and climate care nothing for
> any of our theories . . .; and I think we should hear the climate and
> weather folks when they say how little we actually know about chaos,
> climate, and weather, the sun, the oceans, etc etc etc . . . and it should
> send a chill down anyone's spine, that description of our ignorance,
> because
> when we know we don't know something it doesn't make much sense to make
> predictions premised upon our ignorance. For example, since I don't know
> which plants and shrooms are edible and which are down right poisonous, I
> think I'll predict this one is edible and have a meal . . . shall we
> so indulge our ignorance ? really? Now, we haven't started yet talking
> about
> the stuff we don't know we don't know . . . ya' I know that's a
> rumsfeldian,
> but if we think the stuff we know we don't know is dangerous, imagine how
> safe is the stuff we don't know we don't know . . .
>
>
> I'm sure Felix understood all that you said, Bullard.....??????
>
> mdhiker
>
>
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