(June 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm)ronedee Wrote: And, they can actually make people out of a single cell now! Ribs are outdated!That's been happening even before there were people.
(June 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm)ronedee Wrote: People laughed and marveled at "Flash Gordon" comics once! Imagine people going to the moon?! And RAY GUNS!!?? Ridiculous!
Yes, the key factor to consider here is that Flash Gordon is fictional.
On the other hand:
Carl Sagan Wrote:But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'