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Originally Posted by peacegirl
No one has actually answered the question as to why this claim is causing so much anger.
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You are lying again. You are a loathsome little liar. THAT is why people get angry -- at the sheer shameless effrontery of your serial lying. We HAVE explained the source of the anger that you arouse -- that you are a loathsome, lying weasel who repeatedly fails to answer questions put to you, just as soon as you see that honestly answering the questions means you must concede that Lessans was wrong. You know his claims were wrong, after ten years of instruction by people much smarter than either you or him. But you continue to lie.
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Isn't it because people are offended that he wasn't a scientist, and therefore who him gives the right to make this claim when the "facts" tell a different story?
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No. It's that the facts (without your dishonest scare quotes) DO tell a different story. As you well know.
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Or is it that people like the idea that we are seeing the past?
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Why would anyone "like" the fact that we see objects as they were in the past? What possible difference could it make?
In any event, this sort of claim by you is another example of projecting your own faults onto others. People here understand that facts are facts, whether we like the facts or not. You, OTOH, reason like this: I want Lessans to be right, therefore he's right because that makes me feel good. Needless to say, this is a logically fallacious argument, but I gather you understand as little of logic and philosophy in general as you do of anything else.
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It certainly doesn't change GPS systems, and it wouldn't cause the world to burn up, as people have speculated.
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And there you go, LYING again. The GPS device works ONLY because it takes into account relativity, and relativity rules out real-time seeing. They delay in seeing is a foundation of relativity theory!
And, yes, the reason the sky is not entirely white is because of the finite velocity of light coupled with the expansion of the universe. If we saw everything in real time, our line of sight would always intersect with a star and the surface of the earth would be as hot as the sun.
Liar.