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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7766989" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>Imagine you live on the island that just killed that missionary. You have virtually no contact with the outside world, but you see airplanes flying all the time. Your theory is that the gods keep these sky canoes aloft and so that they never fall from the sky. Now say they end the restrictions on contact with this tribe and you learn a few years from now what gravity is, what airplanes are, and how planes are kept aloft. The new information is consistent with what you knew, but what you knew would still be completely wrong. </p><p></p><p>We could be completely wrong about what gravity is and how it truly works, even though the new knowledge is consistent with what you observed. Hell, we don't actually know how it works. We just know it does. We also don't know if there are conditions under which it might not work at all, or work completely differently that we just haven't observed yet.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Possibly. Just because we haven't observed something, doesn't mean that there aren't rare conditions under which those boundaries aren't as restrictive or even restrictive at all. Or for that matter, if the restrictions we observe apply to everything that happens naturally, but don't apply to X, Y and Z unnatural applications that intelligent beings could come up with.</p><p></p><p>Just look at what we've done so far. Natural restrictions kept mankind on the planet and would continue to keep mankind on the planet until we or the planet ended. However, we invented an unnatural method to propel us off the planet and visit the moon. We went around the restrictions on us by applying other things in a way that doesn't occur naturally. We could wait from the beginning of the universe until the end and nature wouldn't provide us with rockets and space suits to make the trip. There could be work-arounds on the limit against traveling faster than the speed of light. We don't know yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7766989, member: 23751"] Imagine you live on the island that just killed that missionary. You have virtually no contact with the outside world, but you see airplanes flying all the time. Your theory is that the gods keep these sky canoes aloft and so that they never fall from the sky. Now say they end the restrictions on contact with this tribe and you learn a few years from now what gravity is, what airplanes are, and how planes are kept aloft. The new information is consistent with what you knew, but what you knew would still be completely wrong. We could be completely wrong about what gravity is and how it truly works, even though the new knowledge is consistent with what you observed. Hell, we don't actually know how it works. We just know it does. We also don't know if there are conditions under which it might not work at all, or work completely differently that we just haven't observed yet. Possibly. Just because we haven't observed something, doesn't mean that there aren't rare conditions under which those boundaries aren't as restrictive or even restrictive at all. Or for that matter, if the restrictions we observe apply to everything that happens naturally, but don't apply to X, Y and Z unnatural applications that intelligent beings could come up with. Just look at what we've done so far. Natural restrictions kept mankind on the planet and would continue to keep mankind on the planet until we or the planet ended. However, we invented an unnatural method to propel us off the planet and visit the moon. We went around the restrictions on us by applying other things in a way that doesn't occur naturally. We could wait from the beginning of the universe until the end and nature wouldn't provide us with rockets and space suits to make the trip. There could be work-arounds on the limit against traveling faster than the speed of light. We don't know yet. [/QUOTE]
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