Final thought of the day.

Yet it should also be noted that when a person is told that the answer to a question lies within the realm of the supernatural, and is therefore unknowable to the human mind, it undermines our curiosity and sabotages our ability to explore our reality.

(H/T to Reddit)

Tonight "Though the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman returns.

"Or did humanity invent God."

Well you know what I think.

I LOVE shows like this!

Shows that make you think.

Programs that challenge your perceptions and shake the foundations of your reality.

No safe, saccharine, fairy tales here, only the gritty uncertainty of science.

Personally I would not have it any other way.

 

Final thought for the night.

I will never forget when I first became fascinated with science. I remember marveling at the world that microscopes and telescopes revealed, while devouring books on animals and animal behaviors just as soon as I checked them out from the school library.

Accepting the simple explanation for complex things was never attractive to me. Instead I wanted to know WHY, and HOW, and WHEN, even if I did not fully understand the answers.

A mind that is always wondering is a mind that is always improving. However a mind that has been tranquilized with soothing mythological explanations is a mind that is being denied its true destiny.

These latest pictures from the Mars rover Curiosity have me a little concerned that we are not welcome.

But then again I can hardly blame them.

Isn't this the problem with America? That we ALWAYS  invade foreign places and then act insulted that they are not thrilled to have us there proselytizing our religious beliefs and trying to get them to eat Big Macs?

And does anybody have ANY doubt we will do the exact same thing if we DO find life on Mars?

Sadly NASA's Curiosity has yet to discover intelligent life on the surface of Mars. Not even close!

"I can see Earth from my front porch, don'tcha know?"

Actually I'm kind of hoping we DON'T go back to this.

Enough on Mars. Must get back to making Earth hotter, cutting science budgets & killing each other over religious differences
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 8, 2012

But of course we will. Sadly it is inevitable.