Van Allen Probes

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    To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.
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    I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)