Hee, I can picture that as a Far Side cartoon. (I always liked Douglas Adams' story about the people who believed that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of something called the Great Green Arkleseizure, and the people wait in terror for the day they call the "Coming of the Big White Handkerchief.")
It always surprises me how often people assume that not knowing an explanation means that there IS no explanation for something. Just because people in Ye Olden Days didn't KNOW about gravity doesn't mean that there wasn't an explanation for it. It's the difference between, when presented with an unexplained phenomenon, responding with "Oh, God did it" or "I don't know what did it. Let's find out!"
On a completely unrelated note, I love your hair in the new icon. Makes me wish I could do that with my hair, but I think it would wind up a ragged mess.
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It always surprises me how often people assume that not knowing an explanation means that there IS no explanation for something. Just because people in Ye Olden Days didn't KNOW about gravity doesn't mean that there wasn't an explanation for it. It's the difference between, when presented with an unexplained phenomenon, responding with "Oh, God did it" or "I don't know what did it. Let's find out!"
On a completely unrelated note, I love your hair in the new icon. Makes me wish I could do that with my hair, but I think it would wind up a ragged mess.