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In reply to the discussion: Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)34. I maintain that the belief we are alone in the universe is akin
to the belief that the Earth is the center of our solar system. It's simply preposterous. Then again, Copernicus had the odds stacked against him...
The first notable to move against Copernicanism was the Magister of the Holy Palace (i.e., the Catholic Church's chief censor), Dominican Bartolomeo Spina, who "expressed a desire to stamp out the Copernican doctrine". But with Spina's death in 1546, his cause fell to his friend, the well known theologian-astronomer, the Dominican Giovanni Maria Tolosani of the Convent of St. Mark in Florence. Tolosani had written a treatise on reforming the calendar (in which astronomy would play a large role) and had attended the Fifth Lateran Council (15121517) to discuss the matter. He had obtained a copy of De Revolutionibus in 1544. His denunciation of Copernicanism was written a year later, in 1545, in an appendix to his unpublished work, On the Truth of Sacred Scripture.
Emulating the rationalistic style of Thomas Aquinas, Tolosani sought to refute Copernicanism by philosophical argument. Copernicanism was absurd, according to Tolosani, because it was scientifically unproven and unfounded. First, Copernicus had assumed the motion of the Earth but offered no physical theory whereby one would deduce this motion. (No one realized that the investigation into Copernicanism would result in a rethinking of the entire field of physics.) Second, Tolosani charged that Copernicus's thought process was backwards. He held that Copernicus had come up with his idea and then sought phenomena that would support it, rather than observing phenomena and deducing from them the idea of what caused them. In this, Tolosani was linking Copernicus's mathematical equations with the practices of the Pythagoreans (whom Aristotle had made arguments against, which were later picked up by Thomas Aquinas). It was argued that mathematical numbers were a mere product of the intellect without any physical reality, and as such could not provide physical causes in the investigation of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
Emulating the rationalistic style of Thomas Aquinas, Tolosani sought to refute Copernicanism by philosophical argument. Copernicanism was absurd, according to Tolosani, because it was scientifically unproven and unfounded. First, Copernicus had assumed the motion of the Earth but offered no physical theory whereby one would deduce this motion. (No one realized that the investigation into Copernicanism would result in a rethinking of the entire field of physics.) Second, Tolosani charged that Copernicus's thought process was backwards. He held that Copernicus had come up with his idea and then sought phenomena that would support it, rather than observing phenomena and deducing from them the idea of what caused them. In this, Tolosani was linking Copernicus's mathematical equations with the practices of the Pythagoreans (whom Aristotle had made arguments against, which were later picked up by Thomas Aquinas). It was argued that mathematical numbers were a mere product of the intellect without any physical reality, and as such could not provide physical causes in the investigation of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
I say the probability of alien life is so high as to be a certainty, but I have no physical proof. I do, however, have information from the Kepler probe and some data from Arecibo.
Check out this sampling from 6 years of research at Arecibo: http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog
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Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]
babylonsister
May 2019
OP
When Gort shows up, "Klaatu barada nikto" a couple of times should do the trick.
yonder
May 2019
#33
The prevalence of drones makes it almost impossible to ferret out real UFO sightings
yaesu
May 2019
#5
Why would a starfaring civilization want resources trapped all the way down a gravity well...
Salviati
May 2019
#10