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> Black box systems are incredibly common. By definition, there isn't anything readily apparent from the outside.

Citation needed. The author is trying to claim that this kind of extremely opaque black box system is common (at least, common enough that we should take the possibility seriously), but their only argument is a made-up example that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

> While there will always be some ever more convoluted model to explain results, any given model is testable, whereas assuming there is nothing to model is not testable.

The claim that Russell's Teapot exists in any given orbit is testable, whereas assuming Russell's Teapot doesn't exist anywhere is not testable.