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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Trapped!
- Message-ID: <Jul.31.14.33.59.1992.23670@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:33:59 GMT
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- I dunno, I think the good old Cosmological Principle (that our
- observation point is not a special place) might qualify as the
- "misanthropic principle." After all, it says that we humans are
- rather insignificant - nasty little carbon lifeforms living in a
- putrid stew of atmosphere, stuck spinning aroung an undistinguished
- star in a rather boring Galactic suburb. Well, maybe that's only
- my phrasing. But in a way the "nothing special" principle is the
- antithesis of the anthropic principle; it's also older, and more
- necessary for actually doing astronomy.
-
- Ben Weiner
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