And that activity produced truly useful knowledge for travel/navigation, agriculture, even construction. Even when the astronomical observations were based on what turned out to be a faulty premise (such as a heliocentric universe).
Thatâs a terrible analogy. Weâre not looking for a specific species in a limited area, weâre looking for any number of possible forms of life in an unimaginably vast area.
So youâre saying methodical investigation and empirical observation can yield unexpected benefits? Golly, maybe we should try that.
In case it wasnât obvious, Iâm completely for exploring the universe as best we can from our vantage point in an ordinary corner of an ordinary galaxy, in what will probably turn out to be an ordinary solar system, even when there are no immediately obvious practical benefits.
What Iâm strongly against is the serious discussion of massively unlikely (however entertaining) explanations for perfectly explainable phenomena like remarkably precise ancient stonework, massive artworks, large ancient structures, and the like. (But I have nothing against those fanciful explanations being used as fodder for fiction.)
Works for me.
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