In this house we do not recognize phosphine as a biomarker! Get the fuck out of my face!

To be fair, I don’t like anyone to knock on my door and talk about random stuff.

Excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about ZFS and tall socks? Maybe the benefits of a tiling window manager?

Given the number of people that think the Sun orbits the Earth and that the Moon is never out in the day time, this would be a good idea. It doesn’t even need to be deep. Just random science facts.

As an aside, I want to buy a billboard in town and post science facts.

This post is intereating, but If I wrote the meme I would not mention aliens. It invites comparisons with certain empty-headed New Atheists that have a fixation on aliens. In my experience, some of them whatch every “science” fiction show involving aliens but read little to nothing about real science.

The typical New Atheist is far more motivated by anti-religious hate than love for Science.

Note, I am aware that atheism is much larger than the New Atheism lunatic cult. My dad (died from pancreatic cancer) was effectively an atheist. He simply avoided (and, rarely, criticized) religion, because it lacks evidence and because there are so many competing ones.

Eh. It would create a whole new set of problems.

Especially when it comes to theorists vs experimentalists. Both agree that experiment is necessary to prove the theory. Both agree that unexpected observation in experiments needs new theory.

Theorists are usually the type to mentally explore possibilities based on prior knowledge before physically testing possibilites. Some may never actually experiment they get so wrapped up in the exploration.

Experimentalists are usually the type to physically test possibilities before mentally exploring “why” the outcomes happened. Some may never actually mentally explore possibilities because they died in an experiment.

This seems to be intrinsic to these scientists. So much so the interactions would be similar to anyone actually willing to talk to missionaries.

If it were possible to convert people to theorists, we’d have a lot less proven, and if it were possible to convert people to experimentalists, we’d all be dead.

I’ve worked with phosphine in an industrial setting; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.

I’d probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.