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I was just mentioning to a friend of mine, a lady in her late 60s early 70s about spiders using electrostatics to travel. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract
by nerpderp82 3y ago
I was just mentioning to a friend of mine, a lady in her late 60s early 70s about spiders using electrostatics to travel.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.012403 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0...
And she remarked, "isn't evolution amazing! It figured out so many things"
When someone says "Isn't science cool?", they are saying lots of things
* I appreciate facts/truth
* Knowing things is fun
* Figuring things out is fun
* There is so much we don't know about the universe
I think you are putting to much semantic meaning into the grammar they are using to express their sentiments. Same goes for, "science says". It isn't enjoyable to discuss things and at the same time qualify every single statement.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIts non sensical. Not minor. Electrostatics exists without science. The point is science is a tool for learning the truth, not the cause, nor the phenomena itself. It would make more sense to say “nature is cool.” Its like looking at a painting and saying “vision is so cool.” Except worse because at least in that example you are actually using the lens (vision) to look at the phenomena.
- nerpderp82 3y agoScience is the tool that allowed us to know these truths. Your comment is damn rude.
- nonethewiser 3y agoExactly, its the tool and not the thing itself nor the cause.