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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
> Our society tends to be quite liberal with the use of percentage figures to
> back up a supposed presupposition or argument. Did anyone see that Nova
> episode about meteors? "We don't know how many [large] meteors there are in
> the solar system, but we've discovered about 10% of them." Eh?
That's fabulous! I read an article back in '92 that proclaimed we'd
already discovered 90% of the world's oil.
Dave!
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| (...) Grin. When in fact we had already discovered 100% of it! At least 100% of that which had been discovered at that time. :-) Aren't the "proven reserves" larger now than they were then? Not that I know what that means, actually, it's just a (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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