alt Hacker News> a planet nobody can see exists and is made of x% helium and is y light years away etc etc
Yeah, because this is high-school curriculum.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/using-lig...
> with absolute certainty
It is taught that the scientific method provides evidence, not certainty, in middle school science curriculum.
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Arrogant retard. You don’t know shit.
And nobody does! That’s why it’s all theatrics and rich media meanwhile nothing fucking happens then we die.
You will likely never know how arrogant you sound.
You’ll die in <100 years guaranteed, like an animal you will exist for only a blip and never know why.
And yet you had all the answers in middle school!
You can’t really answer where the energy of the Big Bang / God came from, and like everyone else you have no idea what the conscious living experience is, why we are here, what it’s all for.
You thought Pluto was blue before photographic evidence revealed it was red - basically the opposite fucking color.
When you were 13 in your middle school education which you view as flawless knowledge accurate to the centimeter throughout the vastness of all of existence you didn’t even know what color the planets in your own neighborhood were.
You’re an arrogant idiot.
> It is taught that the scientific method provides evidence, not certainty, in middle school science curriculum.
FWIW, this fact isn't taught properly or normies are somehow unable to process it.
There's this popular dismissal of tech people, saying that "they think in 0s and 1s, but world is shades of gray", but in reality, it's almost everyone else that thinks in 0s and 1s - STEM people and people in/into similar fields (like medicine) are usually forced to understand nuance due to nature of their interests/occupation, but everyone else seems to operate in purely binary mode, and what's worse, whether something is true and false isn't even correlated much with objective reality, and mostly with one's personal feelings about how things should be.
(Now, to be an equal opportunity cynic, in my experience, the concept of categories and taxonomies being arbitrary - invented and assigned by people, and judged by their usefulness, as opposed to being inherent facts of nature that are discovered - seems to be hard for even STEM people to process, for some reason, at least based on my observations and the number of conversations I had about this with all kinds of people.)