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24 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 12:12PM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 25 April 2012 09:05:36PM 2 points [-]

Here I thought it was a snarky statement about how we can see the success of physical theories with our own observations, and have never observed them to fail. Triple illusion of transparency all the way across the sky!

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 09:09:16PM 2 points [-]

Its purpose was to demonstrate how physical theories are demonstrably successful. Its delivery was the Ad Hominem riff.