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Re:Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative... by ekianjo on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:54AM (#9916866)
> doesn't mean they can't understand what mathematics is

Yet humans clearly fail to understand things like radioactivity (and the risks involved, for good or bad). I'm not sure what Musk thinks is reliable at all in this matter.

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Re:Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative... by tosseraccount on Monday July 20, 2015 @12:02PM (#9916940)
Humans do understand radiation dangers. Why do we have no nuclear war since the atom bomb? Why are there so few deaths from nuclear power plants? Why do people use sunscreen and shield spacecraft?
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