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I think we're approaching another shift in our perception of our surroundings: * The world is flat -> no, round * The sun revolves around the earth -> no, Ear
by afro88 11y ago
I think we're approaching another shift in our perception of our surroundings:
* The world is flat -> no, round
* The sun revolves around the earth -> no, Earth revolves around the sun
* Earth is a special unique snowflake -> no, there are 1B "Earths"
* Life is an incredibly rare event -> no, life is common throughout the galaxy and universe, just not how we thought it would be?
- vlasev 11y agoJust for the record, the "flat Earth" stuff is mostly a myth pushed by latter generations to make earlier generations look and sound dumb.
- CraneWorm 11y agoIt's also a thing "a lot" of today's people believe. Possibly to make our generation look and sound dumber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies
- sktrdie 11y agoThis is such a bad analogy (I think you got it from Neil Tyson or something). What you've done is that you've taken examples of things that we got wrong. However, there's a lot more things we got right back then, that are still right nowadays! So your point that whenever we make predictions, we get them wrong, is totally unfounded.
- dandrews 11y agoGP made no such point.
- afro88 11y ago> (I think you got it from Neil Tyson or something) Lol no, I haven't actually watched any stuff from him, I'm more of a Brian Cox guy. My point wasn't "whenever we make predictions we get them wrong", it was that our accepted model of our universe is always in a state of flux - new revelations come about every so often that totally change this model. Hopefully the next revelation is that there is in fact a lot of life in the universe and we aren't alone.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAnd as for the "Earth is a special unique snowflake -> no, there are 1B "Earths", while actual confirmation of the existence and number of exoplanets is a recent development, the shift for general population was made long ago, thanks to science fiction literature and later cinema.
- sumedh 11y ago> Life is an incredibly rare event Precisely why I am so exited about exploration of Europa and Titan and others in our solar system. Imagine if we find life beneath the surface just in our system, then the probability of finding life outside our system would be much higher.
- bunkydoo 11y agoLife is probably pretty common, Intelligence... well we may just be alone in our neck of the woods until we create more.