What you call "protection of the infrastructure status quo" I call "debunking wild fantasies." I find discussion of ghosts and Bigfoot also interesting, but I don't confuse it with provable matters. Considering I have worked on photon radiation weapons and space weapons, I am a poor candidate for being considered a stick-in-the-mud.
Your problem is that you have all gotten used to sloppy epistemology and logic, topped with wishful thinking, and when someone (like me) calls you to account for it, you have no good answers. Just feelings.
What you call "protection of the infrastructure status quo" I call "debunking wild fantasies." I find discussion of ghosts and Bigfoot also interesting, but I don't confuse it with provable matters. Considering I have worked on photon radiation weapons and space weapons, I am a poor candidate for being considered a stick-in-the-mud.
Your problem is that you have all gotten used to sloppy epistemology and logic, topped with wishful thinking, and when someone (like me) calls you to account for it, you have no good answers. Just feelings.
Spoken like a 'man-in-black'. Do people ever see your eyes under those dark sunglasses when you appear at their door?
An excellent example of a blatherskitic stump. Calling captain Kirk... Scotty is that you?
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