This is a projection of your inner state onto the word and not the word itself. It truly is a mystery. Like most things.
Why does this bother people? it isn't like the article is inducing mass hysteria.
> we've seen this phenomenon before
> I said, 'Wow, this is something really new'
> it's unsurprising
> Even so [...] what they saw surprised them.
I mean that's nerdy scientists for you, they get so into their thing it's kind of disgusting. I watched a documentary about volcanos once, it had a husband and wife team, they were just enthusing endlessly about their particular volcano that they were studying and it really turned me off. This was about 20 years ago and as a result I still hate vulcanologists, they totally overdid the sales pitch.
Why isn’t there just void? So here we are on a tiny planet alone. Alone?
How did we get here? Are we living in a simulation? Maybe we are in Sim Planet game for another entity?
All of our existence is mystery.
The point is: just to enjoy the fleeting moment of consciousnees? Oh no, I bet you won't be satisfied with this answer and you want more...
Is it my preferred answer? I guess not :)
We know what the radiation belt is, where it is, and where it came from; so why exactly is this a ‘mystery?’
It’s actually getting harder and harder to even play devil’s advocate for the sake of ensuring we aren’t collectively ensnaring ourselves in destructive biases.
They think everything worth knowing is known. Art is “solved” as a problem. Science is absolute (even though science and math all reduce to nil by their own definition).
We’re seeing the steep rise of a new form of dogmatism unlike anything before save for theocracies.
This thread is all bickering about words and context that weren’t even present! It’s painful.