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by brailsafe
1011 days ago
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It's a statement worth downvoting because it's laden with assumptions, as well as seemingly being a naive, sensational, and combative posturing effort that seems designed to provoke others by questioning the rationality or competency of whoever's in charge of the vessel rather than contribute positively to discussion of the result. Your subsequent responses also seem defensive, and none of these are tonal qualities worth rewarding. Likewise, mystery is something sorely lacking in everyday life, and it's a shitty move to cast aspersions toward publications on the basis that you don't like it. If anything, we should do more to cultivate curiosity and mysticism. That's my impression anyway, but I'm someone who'd admit to never having been on a research vessel, or part of any budgeting, logistics, or formal research process, and your comments are exactly what I'd expect myself to say if I was 19 again and just as arrogant as I was then. Perhaps none of these were your intention, and perhaps you have no malicious intent, I'm not accusing you of that, but that's kind of how it comes across. |
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Every statement refers to assumptions or prerequisite knowledge. Should every comment re-include basic education, higher educations, all the text-books and journal articles supporting each assumption? What is known as facts by some may seem like vacuous assumptions to others.
When making such a comment, could you at least point to the apparent assumptions you are unable to follow?
>Likewise, mystery is something sorely lacking in everyday life, and it's a shitty move to cast aspersions toward publications on the basis that you don't like it. If anything, we should do more to cultivate curiosity and mysticism.
What is missing in everyday life is enthusiasm, excitement, ... not mysticism. There are plenty of open problems that are truly mystic for now. Collecting a specimen and not mentioning already done or upcoming sequencing effort is just feeding inappropriate mysticism. Think of how many children have weird fantasies of Loch Ness monster, Yeti, Area 51 aliens, etc... What a waste of mankinds power to fantasize. Give the kids unfettered access to journal articles without paywall such that they can revel in profound actual mysteries as opposed to artificial ones... I don't think theres anything arrogant about such a position.