• sab
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    101 year ago

    I guess people tend to look to astronomers for information about space, while the Fermi paradox probably borders more on philosophy than on astronomy. And in a lot of people minds philosophers are not real scientists, unlike astronomers.

      • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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        61 year ago

        An overwhelming portion of what is hard science now was probably in the domain of philosophy once.

        • Malgas
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          41 year ago

          You don’t even have to go very far back to hit a time when scientists were called “natural philosophers”.