• The Picard ManeuverOP
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    7 days ago

    Since we aren’t capable of gaining absolute knowledge, we’re cursed with having to each set our personal threshold for skepticism/credulity. Setting it too low like your quiet uncle seems like it would be a confusing nightmare.

    I tend to be skeptical, but I still went down a rabbit hole the other day re: aliens after indirectly reading about “sightings” in Europe in the 1600s. This one was fascinating:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1665_celestial_phenomenon_over_Stralsund