The Improbability Principle

David J. Hand Central 519.2 H236121 2014

Skimmed, a few interesting factoids and aphorisms.

• I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong - John Maynard Keynes

• I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it - Marshall McLuhan

• p03 Anthony Hopkins "The Girl from Petrovka" book 1972 film 1974
• Patriot Scud: Pentagon 80% Scuds engaged, MIT Theodore Postol 1 in 14 hits on videotapes
  • How many SCUDS were fired, how many Patriots fired to intercept them, how many other systems intercepted them in parallel, how were the videotapes selected, what did they actually show?

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud#Scud_attacks: 46 were fired into Saudi Arabia and 42 into Israel

  • A Review of the Postol and Lewis Evaluation of the White Sands Missile Range Evaluation of the Suitability of TV Video Tapes to Evaluate Patriot Performance During the Gulf War ... Zimmerman, Peter D. (November 16, 1992) Cannot Find

  • Zimmerman elsewhere: "... Consider the situation in Israel. On average four Patriots were launched ... " per SCUD.

• Stars in other universes: stellar structure with different fundamental constants ...