Comments on: Oliver Cromwell? http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/ "A beer and some convo" Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Alby http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/comment-page-1/#comment-3171 Alby Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:07:09 +0000 http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/#comment-3171 Ooh! Some might call you a cynic. Ooh! Some might call you a cynic.

]]> By: sweavo http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/comment-page-1/#comment-3169 sweavo Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:19:14 +0000 http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/#comment-3169 "It wasn’t a bloody miracle; it was good design, scientific testing and good planning. " It was a miracle because there were human beings in the loop between the good planning and the execution. “It wasn’t a bloody miracle; it was good design, scientific testing and good planning. ”

It was a miracle because there were human beings in the loop between the good planning and the execution.

]]> By: josephmcg http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 josephmcg Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:00:49 +0000 http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/#comment-3163 On the point of the homeopathic water remembering previous pollutants, surely they must have some way to make it forget (boil or distill it perhaps? or sit around in a circle and hold hands with it?). PS related to Dawkins - check out this wonderful 'memetic evolution' study of chain letters... www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html they found that the optimal replication rate for survival of a letter was about 1.05 - any higher and it would burn itself out quickly after making its way through the entire population. On the point of the homeopathic water remembering previous pollutants, surely they must have some way to make it forget (boil or distill it perhaps? or sit around in a circle and hold hands with it?).

PS related to Dawkins – check out this wonderful ‘memetic evolution’ study of chain letters…
http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html
they found that the optimal replication rate for survival of a letter was about 1.05 – any higher and it would burn itself out quickly after making its way through the entire population.

]]> By: josephmcg http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/comment-page-1/#comment-3162 josephmcg Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:52:31 +0000 http://www.monkeyjuggler.net/meanderings/2007/08/20/oliver-cromwell/#comment-3162 There's a good reason he chose Cromwell: the blighter was host to a colourful variety of nasty diseases & infections - including (most relevantly) a bad case of the stone, which lingered and festered and eventually killed him. There’s a good reason he chose Cromwell: the blighter was host to a colourful variety of nasty diseases & infections – including (most relevantly) a bad case of the stone, which lingered and festered and eventually killed him.

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