RE: Strange science 😦
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2025 at 4:09 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Reading that article reminds me of the scene in the movie Kinsey where Dr. Kinsey is faced with the slew of questions about human sexuality and he just says "I don't know. Nobody has researched it." That's almost how it is with the Fermi paradox: we cannot even begin to think about the intelligence in the universe. As if it uncovers like a large wall that separates human knowledge and the great unknown.
Perhaps the key is when Alex mentions that asteroids could hold a clue to alien mining, but then he also says that it would be difficult to distinguish from natural processes.
So it seems that the fix would be to look at the universe from up close. To send more robots around the solar system to see what things look like (caves on Mars, surface of Venus, various moons, asteroids, etc.), to get to know them, and maybe then we can start to think.
Perhaps the key is when Alex mentions that asteroids could hold a clue to alien mining, but then he also says that it would be difficult to distinguish from natural processes.
So it seems that the fix would be to look at the universe from up close. To send more robots around the solar system to see what things look like (caves on Mars, surface of Venus, various moons, asteroids, etc.), to get to know them, and maybe then we can start to think.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
