Originally posted by Whiskey Jack
Originally posted by Purgatory
Humans "think" they know all of the answers to everything, when in reality, their comprehension of all things greater than us is just a guess.
Ok, sure, but keep in mind that these "guesses" you so blithely discard are ones that have, on our limited scale borne out many times for many different people, so they're pretty decent guesses based on the evidence we have.
To digress a bit from the moon part of this discussion, let me tell you the story of a friend, her car, and her refutation of "guesses." History has shown us, time and time again, that when one solid object attempts to pass through the physical space occupied by another physical object it does not do so without passing along its kinetic energy. Sometimes this destroys one or both of the intersecting objects, but most of the time it simply damages one or the other, and arrests (or deflects) the trajectory of both objects. Simple enough, right?
Well, not for my friend. She's a dear, sweet person, but I will never, ever, get in a car with her. She is firmly convinced (because "it feels like it should be true") that if she only believes hard enough she can cause her car to pass through the space occupied by something else --a tree, a sign, another car, a house-- without interacting with that object. In spite of, to use the most conservative estimates, 6000 years evidence to the contrary, she believes that she can succeed at making one solid object pass through the physical space occupied by another physical object.
Now, it might be that she's right. There may be a way to do this, and it may be something that we'll discover in the next 30 years, but I don't want to be there when she makes the experiment while driving.
Similarly, it is certainly possible that the moon is a spaceship, that George Lucas channeled ancestral DNA memory when designing the Death Star so that it looks like Spaceship Iaeptus™, that we're all government-employed debunkers designed to keep the masses in happy tranquility, or that the Crab Nebula really would taste good if only you could find enough marinara sauce and a pot of boiling water a few million lightyears in diameter....but it's probably not.
my statement wasn't meant to discredit all science, but it's proving a point that many people feel that whatever science might decide (based on what we can only comprehend here, by earthly standards and ways of thinking) is written in concrete. it's not.
We don't know enough about the moon (yet) to really understand how it got there, and how it works (we can only assume it). This goes for many of those "big questions" out there. If I'm wrong, give me scientific proof of how the universe began, and what happens to our spirit/soul after we die. There is none.
Perhaps our understanding of gravity does not apply on a planet 30 light years from here where things could work differently. Perhaps there are elements on other planets far away that allow the existence of things, and theories beyond our comprehension. We don't know. That's my point here.
The scientific skeptics shouldn't be so quick to laugh at the other possibilities that are out there.
