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| | | | | Tooth Fairy science is the study of a phenomenon before having actually demonstrated that the phenomenon actually exists. I can't think of a better example than trying to construct an elaborate mapping system of body parts and organs to the surface of the external ear for purposes of sticking needles in them to heal and relieve pain (auricular acupuncture). Yet that's what's just been published. | |
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| | | | | "Hubble often takes images of distant gravitationally lensed galaxies to infer their substructure and to try to learn about early galaxies in general. For LUVOIR, we would have that same resolution for any galaxy! That's truly revolutionary." -John O'Meara | |
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| | | | | "It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States." -Brad Sherman | |
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| | | The decision to strip Pluto of its planet status and rebrand it as a dwarf planet was controversial, and remains so to this day. The debate stems from a revolution in our understanding of the solar system and shows that science is always evolving. | ||