Massimo
Yes, I heard that interview too. Floyd showed class in admitting that the fight wasn't easy and in apologizing with the journalist for being rude to him in another occasion.
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Angelo
Money Mayweather---good things to say about Cotto in the post-fight press conference. Money said he knew Cotto was going to be a challenge and he admitted that Cotto won some rounds. Had a lot of respect for Cotto.
Massimo
ate chicken at dinner
Massimo
Angelo-
I think that time machines for going to the future are possible in the sense that you make a trip with a spaceship and when you are back on Earth you have only gotten say 2 years older while the others have gotten say 20 years older. I don't believe that it will ever be possible to go to the past because changing the past could make the present impossible. If I went to the past and killed my parents how could I exist ?
I'm interested in a lot of things that can't be proven true or false, but not from a scientific point of view. I could come up with countless statements that can't be proven right or wrong.
1)On the 5th of June 1863 Abraham Lincoln ate a chicken at dinner.
2)There is a planet in the universe where the inhabitans are 50 feet tall on average and have 5 feet.
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Angelo
What about the time machine then? Or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Also, Apollo Creed and Clubber Lang can't be proven to be real, but don't try to tell me you're not interested in them. And my closing argument is Jumpity Bruce----who I know can jump from a sidewalk in Manhattan to the roof of a building in Cleveland----in one big jumpity jump. Can I prove it? No. Some things, you just have to accept as real.
Massimo
Angelo-
Thanks for the link! No, I had never heard of that and, honestly, it seems total nonsense to me. And it's impossible to prove or confute scientifically.
The human brain is made of cells which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms etc. and it works following the laws of nature. Of course a human brain can imagine a lot of things/events, but I don't see how it could see a parallel universe. Not to mention that there is a chance that the existence of parallel universes will never be proven or denied and, in the best possible scenario, it will take scientists a huge amount of time to do either thing. I'm not very interested in things that can't neither be proven or denied.
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angelo
Massimo: Haven't you heard that there's a portole in the mind that allows you to "travel" to your own parallel universe? Sure, the "experiment" would show the physical being still being in the room. But their mind would be viewing the parallel universe---it's a window. Our lives are the same here and there----with very minor variations. Coast to Coast AM!! http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2011/08/15
"If we can control gravity with a device, than we can control time too."
Massimo
Angelo-
The key word is experiment. One could easily prove that philosopher wrong by forcing a person to fall asleep in a laboratory and checking that while he/she is sleeping he/she doesn't go anywhere.
In order to go to a parallel universe one should create a hole in the space-time which would require an immense amount of energy, so big that it's hard to imagine. As far as I know, the only places in the universe that could be used as a door to a parallel universe are the black holes, but they are not comfortable places to be as not even light can escape from a black hole, they destroy everything. So, if we will ever be able to set an experiment that would allow us to create a hole in the space-time it would take us thousands of years of studies. But there are other achievements that are much much more realistic (and probably more useful to manking too) like finding a new source of clean energy and solving the problem of the supply of food by finding the way to produce artificial food in laboratory. I know that scientists are very close to
reach both of these two goals, I'm hopeful that they'll make it within 10 years. There is a laboratory (if my memory serves me well it's in California) where they are trying to get in a stable and reliable way energy by using the nuclear fusion (the same process that makes stars work). The fact that they are close to achieving such a thing seems
almost "miraculous" to me! They are also close to finding the way to produce artificial food that tastes good. Needless to say that both things would be turning points in the history of manking: the solution of the problem of energy and the solution of the problem of the hunger in the world.
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angelo
Massimo: Don't you realize that we visit parallel universe or universes when we dream? A philosopher once said that the dream life is the real life in the parallel universe. True, some dreams are just our subconscious acting up----but other dreams---are inadvertent windows into the parallel universe. You know which ones they are if you remember them. They are the ones that feel real.
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angelo
Massimo: Don't you realize that we visit parallel universe or universes when we dream? A philosopher once said that the dream life is the real life in the parallel universe. True, some dreams are just our subconscious acting up----but other dreams---are inadvertent windows into the parallel universe. You know which ones they are if you remember them. They are the ones that feel real.
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Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)
Happy Birthday Uncle Jerry, we all love & miss you very much.
Massimo
None and nothing can jump higher than Jumpity Bruce and no place is out of the reach of one of Jumpity Bruce's jumps! So, chances are that right now Jumpity Bruce is jumping over Skyview! Jumpity Bruce has seen places in the Universe that none of us can even imagine, places crowded with alien beings of all sorts, some of whom are thousands of years ahead of us in scientific knowledge and look at us as barbarians! Others even look at us as very simple and primitive forms of life. There's a chance that Jumpity Bruce has already been to a parallel universe, if they exist.
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Kent
I heard that Skyview has been viewing the goings on around here from up above.
Hmm, up above, could it be that Skyview is actually Jumpity Bruce who jumped up into the clouds and is looking down at us?
After all, flying would not be out the question for the Jump Man.
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Massimo
Frankly Angelo, if Scott Frank said something about Frank Bruno I'm not sure that he would sound really frank! Frankly, it may not sound that frank of Frank to comment about Frank Bruno! The interviewer might reply:" Come on Frank,be frank, what do you think about Frank Bruno ?".
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angelo
Frankly Massimo, what about Scott Frank?
Massimo
And, frankly, I believe that Mike was being frank when he said those things about Frank.
Massimo
Two fights I remember well, Tillis gave Tyson lots of problems and Douglas...even more!Surprisingly enough, Frank Bruno had a much easier time with Tillis than Tyson did. Iron Mike watched the legendary Bruno vs Tillis fight at ringside and , judging by his comment, he was quite impressed by Bruno's performance. And I frankly believe that Mike was being frank when he said those things about Frank.
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Angelo
ESPN 2 played a couple Tyson fights last night. I tuned in for his bout against James "Quick" Tillis and the loss to Buster Douglas.
Massimo
Later on in his career Cassius Marcellus Clay changed his name in Muhammad Ali.
Massimo
An excerpt of the fight between the famous Willi Besmanoff and a fighter named Cassius Marcellus Clay (1961). Willi Besmanoff had already fought Sonny Liston in 1959.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqDu8ryVTFI&list=UUyumnXEW3YCQqUf4ujMiMKA&index=2&feature=plcp
Massimo
I meant "native talent for boxing".
Massimo
Angelo-
I 100% agree, if Tyson had had D'Amato during his entire career, he would have done much better (and he didn't do that bad, anyhow). I think that Cus would have done a great job with Big George too, although Tyson's native boxing skills were probably better than George's. I have never seen Foreman display the level
of talent Tyson showed in a few of his fights, not even close.
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Angelo
Massimo: Mike Tyson had the advantage of Cus D'Amato mentoring him early. D'Amato was giving Tyson a lot to work with---head movement, combinations, etc. Even though Tyson won his early fights on brute force, he clearly had a skill set being developed that might have made him unstoppable for many years. He still chokes up when talking about D'Amato's influnce on him---saw a recent interview. When he lost his early Managers, he also lost the road to greatness. He started trying to win fights with one big punch----he traded too much instead of trying to box at all. He lost motivation and focus. He "went Hollywood" and stopped being a gym/sparring monster. Tyson is another one who could have had an even better career than he did.
Massimo
George Foreman never had A-level boxing skills at any point of his career but, as Foreman II, he got wiser from a tactical point of view and, yes,he developed a decent defense based on crossing his big arms and putting them in front of his face to block punches. As a young fighter all he showed was a good jab and devastating punching power. He definitely relied too much on power, which is only one of the many aspects of boxing, against Ali,Young and Lyle. I doubt that wiser tactical choices would have allowed him to beat Young because Jimmy on his best night was not outboxable/"outzanonable" but, however, it would have helped him quite a bit. I'm not at all sure that with a wiser tactic he would have beaten Ali, but he certainly wouldn't have ended up on the canvas. The fight would have gone the distance and probably it would have been close. At the time he fought George Ali hadn't fully shown yet his ability to take a punch, I think that shocked and amazed quite a few people.
I think that what George would have needed in the first part of his career is someone to develop his boxing skills, someone to "mayweather/jones/toney" him. This guy should have first convinced George that was important for him to develop his boxing skills which might have taken a while as Foreman was so used to rely on his power and little else.
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