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crazy said: <font color="yellow"> February 13, 2000: No one has ever seen the Oort cloud, that spherical envelope of comets and their residues that surrounds our Solar System. No one has ever measured its size and density or counted the objects in it. Nor is anyone likely to do so in the foreseeable future: the Oort cloud is too distant, and the objects in it too small and too dim to be detected by our instruments. </font><br /><br />Well isn't that conveeeeeenient. But yet:<br /><br /><font color="yellow"> not only do scientists agree that this ethereal cloud is out there, but they are so confident that they actually argue about its exact composition and characteristics. </font><br /><br />Confidence and agreement do not an observation make. These scientists *must* be confident about the existence of this imaginary place...without it, their entire theory would fall apart. They have no choice.<br /><br />One might argue that the EPH is the same way: it *needs* exploded planets. The difference between the EPH and the Oort cloud is that the EPH makes successful predictions with far fewer variables, which is exactly what Occam's razor demands.<br /><br />Tell me...what successful predictions has the Oort cloud ever made?<br /><br /><font color="yellow"> Furthermore, we know it's there, because we can calculate the orbits of comet with simple math and that where they appear to come from. </font><br /><br />There is nothing simple about this. The calculations do NOT point to the Oort cloud. They point to our solar system as the origin. <br /><br /><font color="yellow"> But our knowledge of the Oort Cloud is solid science. </font><br /><br />Yeah, an imaginary, undetected, undetectable, constantly replenished cloud of comets, supported by a computer model that was designed under the assumption that the Oort cloud exists exactly where it *has* to be.<br /><br />That's real <b> solid </b> science there. <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /><br /><br></br>