[ SECRET POST #3007 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3007 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[fscom]

17. http://i.imgur.com/w9qFZXk.jpg

Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Image: The Script's Science & Faith single art (from 2010), hands playing rock, paper, scissors against a sketch of an atom model (only the orbits)

Text: When I hear any song by The Script, I remember the song Science & Faith and get annoyed.
"You won't find faith and hope down a telescope/You won't find heart and soul in the stars"
Excuse you! General implications aside, why choose astronomy as least romantic field? And why not find those?
s!b it's about a relationship, it's a mediocre love song, the words just went well together

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, the Script. Every time I hear of them I think of their Lose Yourself cover and cringe, so you're probably better off with that one.

[(Anonymous)]

AAAAAAA NOW I'M CRINGING

[(Anonymous)]

"Excuse you! General implications aside, why choose astronomy as least romantic field? And why not find those?"

Seconded, so hard. I know someone, staunch atheist, but when they talk about astronomy and astrophysics and the space program, it certainly sounds to me like their feelings regarding those things are pretty close to what mystics and deeply religious people feel about God.

Either/or thinking, I'm so over it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a common misconception, unfortunately. A lot of people seem to think that it's more romantic and mysterious not to know the science behind why things work, and they don't understand why others would find the explanations to be equally amazing if not more so. It's a bit anti-intellectual, IMO, and it says more about the people making that assumption than it does about science.

Do you know Walt Whitman's poem "When I heard the learn'd astronomer"?

[(Anonymous)]

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; 5
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Some people will never understand that those very proofs and figures and diagrams can give you joy too, once you know how to approach them.