"D. Ismay"
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Cyber Trekker wrote:
D. Ismay wrote:
oldcoot wrote:

Hyup. Dark future it is. :-) oc

...only in the minds of those who prefer fantasy over science.
See 'Dingbat' and the saucerheads, for one example.

The problem with your statement is, it doesn't take into consideration
that
often science is pure fantasy too.

and you have an example?

There are many examples in history...

Flat Earth -- There was a time when a "round"
Earth, though not that difficult to "prove", was
a very hard idea to believe in. BUT, the idea
that Earth was flat or cylindrical and not a
sphere was indeed a FANTASY.

Geocentric Theory -- Earth as center of the
Universe. FANTASY

Heliocentric Theory -- Sun as center of the
Universe. FANTASY

The Milky Way Galaxy is the whole Universe,
and everything we see in the sky is inside our
Galaxy -- it wasn't until the Great Debate of
Shapley and Curtis (1920) that this idea really
began to fade. Then Hubble (1925) provided
evidence that there were other great galaxies
that were *outside* the Milky Way. Since then,
the old idea that our Galaxy was the whole
Universe has been accepted as FANTASY.

(I've always thought it interesting that this all
took place *after* Einstein's stuff hit the fan.)

Since history abounds with science housing
ideas that have since been shown to be utter
FANTASY, it has to make you wonder how very
deeply FANTASY continues to remain a part of
our science. Let me be quick to note that this
is not meant as a cut or slight toward science.
Science is and has always been an important
set of disciplines looking for reality and truth.

And yet, for many reasons, we all must still
accept that there is much to learn, and still a
good bit of FANTASY to overcome...

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djubl...rthsociety.htm

....and not just these old ideas that hang on for
dear life, but also existing ideas, especially in
cosmology and particle physics, ideas that
might very well turn out to be FANTASY in the
coming years!

happy holidays and...
starry starry nights!

--
Indelibly yours,
Paine

P.S. Here are some secret sites... shhh
http://painellsworth.net
http://savethechildren.org/
http://home.secretsgolden.com