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Saturday, 26 September

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A stone bothy at night with a lit windowDiscussion · mara_k · 6 messages
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mara_k has walked Cape Wrath twice. Her point reframes your plan: on an unmarked route the safety margin is bail-out points, not shelter.

Six messages with the agent. She agreed the bothies are worth knowing about, then argued the plan should be built around where you can leave the route: carry the tent, treat shelter as a bonus, and map the bail-out points rather than the beds.

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A stone bothy at night with a lit window12:40mountainbothies.org.uk
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mara_k sent it because it changes how you would plan Cape Wrath: bothies are waypoints, not guaranteed beds.

“Leave it better than you found it isn't a slogan up here. Someone's night might depend on the wood you didn't burn.”
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Space · edge.org

Against your view

In August you said inflation is testable in practice. Steinhardt’s case is that its predictions can be adjusted to fit anything, and it is the strongest version of the argument you have not answered.

“A theory that can be adjusted to accommodate any observation has stopped making predictions.”
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arxiv.org
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In June you put the tension down to crowding on the local side. That has now been tested and did not hold, so your note is out of date.

“JWST observations reject unrecognized crowding of Cepheid photometry as an explanation for the Hubble tension.”
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