it isn’t true that truth is
stranger than fiction.
for example, right now
i am reading a book of poems
by a hunam author,
a mr. david berman
containing many references to
such things as
a robot asking a
man on the moon about
the minds of snowmen,
and while such things may not be
prohibited by physics
they are prohibited by most
people’s conscience.
when you hear about a world
spun around by three suns
like a yo-yo on the loom
of galactic fireballs
it sounds remarkable for a moment
but then you realize that
george lucas preceded NASA
by at least three decades,
and lucas was probably beaten
to the punch by any number of
ancient greek hobos.
there isn’t anything anyone can
discover that hasn’t already
been thought up in the mind of
a science fiction writer somewhere,
or an ant with a curious mind,
or even
a snowman on tatooine
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dear walls,
the difference between a
good hunam and a bad hunam
is all in the number of
crumbs they drop
Ah, very true my leggy friend. Maybe.
It is scientifically impossible to prove a theory correct. But, falsifiability is another matter.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
The idea comes from the work of the philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Ernest Gellner. Falsifiability is an important concept in the philosophy of science that amounts to the apparently paradoxical idea that a proposition or theory cannot be scientific if it does not admit consideration of the possibility of its being false.
For example, I have a theory: ANTS ARE ANTI-HUMANIST