Sujet : Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Oct 2024, 01:04:34
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:22:00 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
As I once heard on a program on the topic, "Science can't make the sun
shine brighter or the rivers run faster."
Think of artificial night-time lighting running off stored solar power
gathered in the day-time: it does better than making the sun shine
brighter, doesn’t it? It makes it shine when it wouldn’t shine at all.
Further: When you dam up a river, the outflow runs faster.
Moral: beware of folksy, misleading epithets from the anti-scientists.