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Old April 23rd 17, 11:01 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default Science is what made us great

There is no point complaining about the complainers however it does look pitiable to see the empirical drones at sea with the rise of nationalism and all those things contrary to the conviction that the UN was going to be an ersatz governing body replacing sovereign politics. The idea that politicians can legislate for weather because a bunch of empirical modellers tried to define climate on the success of short term weather modelling looks quaint now but the forward momentum for that ideology is gone leaving behind the sour grapes of 'denial'. When the opposition have accepted the notion that weather ultimately morphs into weather then there is really no opposition but rather alternate sides of the same coin whereas genuine climate is founded on the solar system platform where all planets display an individual climate set against a set of principles and a spectrum.

I look at the dour and sour folk who attach themselves to my comments and they can post imaging but are unable to create a conceptual narrative around the imaging and never in human history has so much imaging been available to work with and each image feeding into narratives that sometimes are best left in isolation and sometimes are a component part of larger stories. Too many commentators and not enough participation in a creative and imaginative sense where physical considerations make these wonderful connections between the planet's motions or solar system/galactic structure with terrestrial sciences possible.

For the American audience, they are going to have to learn to detach themselves from a colonist mentality and stand on their own. The Europeans via theorists and mathematicians launched an assault on astronomy for centuries by overreaching in an attempt to mesh experimental sciences with celestial observations and created a clockwork solar system ensconced in the calendar framework. The answer was not relativity but rather how contemporary imaging is brought to bear on the original astronomical insights emerging from a Sun centered system and all the variations on different themes made possible by these new images and tools.

It is painful to see so many waste their life but it is unnecessary and diminishes the priceless ability to reason properly.