Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 12/22/24 12:46 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:04:59 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    Whose 'science' is going on HERE ?

 The problem of living a relatively long life is you've seen science change
too many times. It hasn't made any practical difference in my life but I
hit the era where conventional current flow was being replaced with
electron flow in some circles and some were jiggering Fleming's little
visual aid. I'm left handed which tends to lead to confusion anyway (right
mouse button?) and that was the last thing I needed.
 As far as the squishier sciences I've visited places like National Park
historic sites and when visiting at a later time have noticed the signage
has been replaced with a new Just So story.
 In a discussion with a IRL friend last week I remarked that when I was
taught history in grade and high school we knew Vortigern invited Horsa
and Hengist over to fight off the Picts. Between the linguists,
archaeologists and geneticists I don't even know what the current revealed
truth is other than some agreement that Gildas made shit up and Bede
expanded on it.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendive_Dinosaur_and_Fossil_Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Rockies

   Everybody goes whole-hawg with the data they HAVE, or
   at least the favored way of SEEING it. They will stick
   with that religiously until they just HAVE to change.

The Museum of the Rockies does its share of guessing but I'm more inclined
to believe their tales than thinking that humans were riding dinosaurs
6000 years ago.

   Those poor people ... caught between an ever-growing
   mountain of facts/evidence and equally-persuasive
   *belief* (which requires no facts). They TRY to find
   ways to splice it all together. It doesn't work well ...
   Somewhere, their little gears are gonna just seize-up.
   In the news a few days ago - some ardent 'flat earther'
   guy (apparently a True Believer) paid big $$$ to go to
   the south pole in order to test his theories about a
   geometrically suspect 'disk shaped' earth where the
   north and south pole were kind of the same thing.
   It didn't work out for him. However he didn't QUITE
   admit defeat ...
   Sad bit is that the Greeks had it all figured out
   by around 500bc ... with surprising accuracy ...
   using naught but pointed sticks, a few bits of
   string and some basic geometry.