If you connect to a stingray, won't the tower ID number be different? So if I only connect through whitelisted towers, I'd be safe

Excellent! Now all he needs to do is find his smartphone.

Oh, come now! The existence of a retroreflection is not proof of the existence a *man-made* retroreflector, let alone one placed there by astronauts using 1960s technology.

Oh, they've got that covered as well.

The reflectors aren't proof of anything. There could be naturally occurring retro-reflective crystals on the moon, and NASA's just claiming they landed there. Now, if you had evidence that there was nothing retro-reflecting BEFORE the Apollo missions, then you might have something.

Note: just pointing out the flaw in the argument, not participating in the hoaxer camp.

Maybe I'm not satisfied with that explanation because there's no proof life is meaningless? Absence of proof is not proof of absence. "Meaning" isn't even falsifiable. It's not the domain of science. Science is silent on the subject of meaning. If you're waiting for science to tell you whether there's meaning or not to life you're going to be waiting a long time.

Why should I subject every aspect of my life to scientific test? Much of life is not falsifiable. Should I not love my wife because I can't devise a scientific test for love? Should I not enjoy a summer day because I can't devise a scientific test for enjoyment?

There's no proof life has a meaning. There's no proof it doesn't.

I choose to believe it does.

I choose to believe that man is not merely an animal.

I choose to believe that human life has objective value.

I choose to believe that we are more than flesh and blood.

I choose to believe that life doesn't end at death.

You're free to believe some of that, none of that, whatever you like. I can't prove any of it. If you can devise tests for any of those things I'd be delighted to look at the results.

I'm not saying there is a why. I could be completely wrong.

There doesn't have to be a why. There's no way to prove a "why" to that question. But I choose to believe there is. You're free to choose to believe or disbelieve or have no opinion or whatever you like.

No, science gives us a good idea of "how." But "why" is a philosophy question. Why are we here? What is the purpose of life, the universe, and everything? There are no significant falsifiable statements to make on such matters, so the scientific method doesn't do us much good.

My religion and science are orthogonal. I believe in God. His Creation, though, I test.

Almost. Science is the way by which we find things which are false.

That's what labs are for. In chemistry lab, in physics lab in high school and college we absolutely asked questions, formed hypotheses, designed and performed experiments, recorded the results, analyzed them (including error bars and appropriate significant figures) and drew conclusions.

But yes, for the most part, people who didn't pay much attention or have no real scientific education who Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson quotes on FaceBook see science as a body of knowledge that is queried.

I'm not a patent attorney either, but I'm fairly sure that works of fiction are not eligible to be considered prior works.

What if you're just asking for your money back as a matter of principle?

I highly doubt that the drones spying in on the Star Wars set are being operated by a reputable commercial surveillance firm. In fact, I doubt they're being operated by someone who cares about the drone operation legal regulations either.

I back the women. Absolutely. Would be nice, though, if the women wouldn't lump me in with the abusers by claiming that my entire field/group/hobby/gender/whatever has a problem.

Holy crap I didn't realize that. A self-selected online survey? And based at that absolutely meaningless metric, "science has a sexual assault problem?" Fuck that.