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Virtual reality check

It’s the modelling, stupid

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

There is an old joke that a geologist, a physicist and an economist are marooned on a desert island with just a can of soup but nothing to open it with. The geologist says ‘let’s use a rock to smash it open’ and the physicist suggests ‘let’s use the sun and heat it up till it blows open’.

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