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Because it's had no observable effect on us for the last 4.5 billion years of our solar system's existence, and we've postulated nothing that would change this
by mindcrime 6y ago
Because it's had no observable effect on us for the last 4.5 billion years of our solar system's existence, and we've postulated nothing that would change this stable dynamical relationship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
- shadowprofile77 6y agoOkay, but speaking strictly in the human timescales of the next few dozen or few hundred generations of our species, a complex interaction of celestial phenomena that hasn't led to any known cataclysms during the last 4 billion+ years could possibly change in a way that causes it to do so, but the chances of that happening specifically now or in the next few hundred generations of human development are vanishingly small. It's like you climbing a volcano that has been dormant for 1000 years, and it suddenly, explosively erupting right while you're walking towards the peak. Could happen out of the blue right during those few hours, sure, but it really, really probably won't.