(December 11, 2013 at 10:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I remember reel-to-reel tape recorders and black and white tvs, too!We grew up poor, so I remember B&W TV. We had a 5" BW TV with the little tubes that would glow bright orange and put out more heat than the Sun.
Got to mess with a reel-to-rell tape recorder once or twice, but we'd moved on to new-fangled shit like cassette tapes by then.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
