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Um, ok. I think he's still doing ok and his fellow academics would prefer he didn't openly speculate about pet theories. They think it is embarrassing. But ask
by zikzak 1y ago
Um, ok. I think he's still doing ok and his fellow academics would prefer he didn't openly speculate about pet theories. They think it is embarrassing.
But ask yourself where we'd be if noone ever asked what if.
There's a reason he called his project to observe anomalous phenomenon The Galileo Project. Ring a bell?
- ares623 1y agoDidn’t Galileo collect evidence first?
- ceejayoz 1y ago> There's a reason he called his project to observe anomalous phenomenon The Galileo Project. Ring a bell? Sure, like the Patriot Act was about patriotism.
- alganet 1y ago"What if it's an alien artifact?" - We're going to observe it. "What if it's a natural object?" - We're going to observe it. That's it. It's all we can reasonably do for now. It changes nothing.
- exe34 1y agoVery little observing involves just the eyes. much of what we observe relies on millennia of assumptions. if we don't consider alternatives that we would normally reject out of hand, we can miss things.