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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: BretCahillBretCahill Date: Jul 23, 2008 15:21
>>>> You go out on the street and try to find someone who will agree with
>>>> you that furrows cannot be circular or spiral.
>>> ? ?You go to a farm and find a farmer who agrees that it can. ?
>>A self described expert on agriculture on one of the related threads
>>just stated exactly that.
>>Potato farmers often work in circular fields to save water.
>>Now you _really_ look stupid.
> I disagree. �He was merely ignorant of that fact, as were you.
I didn't know it had already been done but that was hardly necessary.
It was trivially obvious that it _could_ be done.
Every last issue of _National Geographic_ every tourist brochure in
every seat pocket on every airliner show photos of curved furrow
agriculture for it's scenic value.
How dumb do you have to be to not know the curve could go into a
complete circle?
It's one thing to say you don't think something can be done when you
are knowledgeable in the field and it hasn't been proven and you have
a reason to believe it cannot be done.
It's quite another to dogmatically claim something cannot be done when
you are ignorant of that field.
Bret Cahill
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