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zanardm
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:18 pm    Post subject: alternative histories Reply with quote

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Meeting of Minds

In a fanciful sense, would Newton and Descartes make for interesting roommates at the university?
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Ophiolite
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Newton was an asshole. Plus he was always dabbling in the seriously illegal arts of alchemy, so he would have been a dangerous associate. Anti-social, egotistical, religious fundamentalists do not make good room mates.

On the plus side you could always go out on the piss with Descartes.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Ophiolite wrote:
On the plus side you could always go out on the piss with Descartes.


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