07-03-2016, 06:47 PM
Opihikao,
I'll need to reread your post when I'm not so tired (we've been dealing with a serious technical problem over what was supposed to be a holiday weekend), but I cannot find any way to define a telescope as "sacred". That really was my only point.
However, the more people say something is sacred the more the definition gets watered down and instead gets used for political and subjective purposes. I prefer to stick with the strict definition of sacred, which is very much related to religion and a god, and is not science.
I'll need to reread your post when I'm not so tired (we've been dealing with a serious technical problem over what was supposed to be a holiday weekend), but I cannot find any way to define a telescope as "sacred". That really was my only point.
However, the more people say something is sacred the more the definition gets watered down and instead gets used for political and subjective purposes. I prefer to stick with the strict definition of sacred, which is very much related to religion and a god, and is not science.