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Orsino

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16. Chaos theory hasn't figured out weather, either...

Reply to GummyBearz (Reply #15)

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 03:54 PM

Mar 2015

...but as with gravity, we understand enough to make a fuckton of practical predictions.

If it's not quite precise to say we know why gravity works, I won't fault any layman for saying we know how. The ISS is a powerful argument.

"Quite well, actually" is a tongue-in-cheek answer, but a very practical one.

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Biden has this so wrong. [View all] srican69 Mar 2015 OP

It kinda is, just different centuries. JaneyVee Mar 2015 #1

Gravity is a poor choice of something easily understood... HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #2

It's an allusion. longship Mar 2015 #3

Interesting.. GummyBearz Mar 2015 #8

Nope. I would not say that. longship Mar 2015 #9

Yes it is just an allusion GummyBearz Mar 2015 #10

Complete enough for all practical considerations. Orsino Mar 2015 #12

Electromagnetics was more complete 130 years ago than gravity is today. GummyBearz Mar 2015 #13

And yet for the purpose of setting political policy, that's not important. Orsino Mar 2015 #14

Its really not important GummyBearz Mar 2015 #15

Chaos theory hasn't figured out weather, either... Orsino Mar 2015 #16

Too many Americans cannot process beyond direct and immediate impacts TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #4

Vice President Joe Biden Promotes U.S. as Fracking Missionary Force On Ukraine Trip Oilwellian Mar 2015 #5

you're not going to win deniers over....bidens right. it's like denying gravity. spanone Mar 2015 #6

I think he is trying to kill the "it's just a theory" meme... lame54 Mar 2015 #7

Not at all. Orsino Mar 2015 #11