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Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by njarboe on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:42AM (#15235609)
"Orbits of planets were calculated long before General Relativity"

Interesting you would say that. They were calculated and the orbit of Mercury was not predicted correctly according to Newtonian Physics. Using Einstein's general relativity, the calculations matched observations.

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Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ... by adrianN on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:18AM (#15236447)
They matched the observation that were available at the time really well. Even pre-Gallilean models matched the observations of their time.
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