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    Master Navigator NY3V's Avatar
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    Warning: Your reality is out of date

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    "...Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change. For example, if, as a baby boomer, you learned high school chemistry in 1970, and then, as we all are apt to do, did not take care to brush up on your chemistry periodically, you would not realize that there are 12 new elements in the Periodic Table. Over a tenth of the elements have been discovered since you graduated high school! While this might not affect your daily life, it is astonishing and a bit humbling..."

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id...s_out_of_date/

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    A reality since most people simply don't have the time to keep up with the latest buzz in every topic. How many people stay at the leading edge of the latest research and developments of every subject they ever learned ? Unless of course it is a profession, and even then it happens that facts learned in school or studies decades ago have changed without realization.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Like, my reality has been out of date since 'Frisco 1967, man...
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    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Like, my reality has been out of date since 'Frisco 1967, man..."
    Mine went up in smoke about then, too.
    A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory

    RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL





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    Gravity sucks and Reality is highly over-rated.

    “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
    --Philip K. Dick

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    What IS reality? Translate this page.

    Hello hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again boom sh-boom
    Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang sh-boom
    Ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay
    Life could be a dream
    Life could be a dream, sweetheart

    Then there was Dickey Doo & The Don'ts...
    Nee nee naa naa noo noo...

    Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tish...
    Zabadak,
    Karakakora kakarakak
    Zabadak
    Shai shai skagalak

    Reality, look what it's done to me!
    I'm just half the brain I used to be.
    Lobotomy,
    I don't believe
    In reality.
    "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    73 de Warren KB2VXA
    Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.

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