Cute

Oh no… The letter started out so well until it whiplashed into hate and then took a nosedive into awfulness.

Isn’t it the difference between the ‘th’ sound in they(ð) and through(θ)?

Yeah. Also it’s not my place to raise adults. But a part of me wishes to plant a seed of skepticism. I have a hard time nodding and going along with it. I feel compelled to question it rather than going along with this kind of small talk.

I’ll think on this. Thank you :)

Ignoring is so hard 😅 I never bring it up.

I don’t think they’re fanatics. I just think their curiousity, with inexperience in healthy skepticism, has found a very easy outlet.

But I guess you’re right. The current state of astrobiology isn’t as exciting and people want to wonder. Maybe hard science is too difficult to sell in this case.

Thank you. I’ll check it out tomorrow. Currently resisting sleep longer than I ought to.

Yeah. Maybe I should ask general questions but not push back on anything. Like “What about this episode convinced you?”. “Do you think that’s enough evidence or would you like to see something more?”. “Wow, so why isn’t this all over the news, do you think?”

Or is this line of questioning too obvious?