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A comment on Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013). Parent comment

Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by adrianN on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:03AM (#14289977)
You get beginner's minds whenever someone who had a lifetime of experience doing A starts trying to do B.
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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by sametmax on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:48AM (#14290327)
Absolutely not. You get somebody trying to do B the A way. Not with a blank page. That's the problem.
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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by 50CNT on Monday May 08, 2017 @09:35AM (#14291307)
But isnt that also interesting? They either fail to do B the A way, or they realize what things from A are applicable to B. In the latter case, we may all benefit from this cross pollination.
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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by adrianN on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:11AM (#14292166)
You don't get absolutely blank pages in any field, even now. Until somebody knows enough to contribute, they've been shaped tremendously by their teachers.
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