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It's Occam's Razor. In order for it to be an interstellar rock, you require no other assumption because there is little evidence to suggest it isn't. If you b
by monkeydreams 4y ago
It's Occam's Razor. In order for it to be an interstellar rock, you require no other assumption because there is little evidence to suggest it isn't.
If you believe it is a probe you must assume an alien civilisation.
Occam's Razor suggests fewest assumptions win.
- twawaaay 4y agoExcept the whole discussion is still here exactly because there is evidence to suggest it isn't a rock. Supposedly it accelerated a bit, inconsistent with what we know about how rocks move through space.
- david927 4y agoI made a “play on words” to convey the notion of discarding data in the insistence on coming to a conclusion rather than simply holding ambiguity. No decision needs to be made. We don’t know if it’s a rock or anything else and that’s ok.
- DennisP 4y agoYou don't have to believe it's an alien probe to accept the substantial evidence that it's not a simple rock.
- vecter 4y agoThere is no such "substantial" evidence. If there really was scientifically agreed upon "substantial" evidence, then it would be world-shattering news.
- DennisP 4y agoWhy? It's some weird object that's not a simple rock. Most people don't see that as earth-shattering, just weird. The basic weirdness is this: it didn't move like a rock, and anything normal that outgassed from it would have been visible, but it wasn't. There have been a couple hypotheses for weird things it could have been made of, but those ideas look unlikely for their own reasons. One for example was that it was frozen hydrogen, but that would have evaporated in interstellar space. The earth has not shattered because most people assume there's a reasonable explanation that nobody's figured out yet.