"“Nothing new, but…” Alex gestured at the bright ring. “I don’t know. I keep looking at it. Wondering what the hell it’s doing.” “Well, it hasn’t killed us. That seems like a good start.” “Could definitely be worse. But… **You think you know something, right? Then it turns out you were only used to it. It does something, and it does something, and then after a while, you think that’s what it does. Then it turns out there was this whole other thing**, maybe.” “**Using a microwave as a lamp, because it has a light in it**,” Jim said. He tried to remember where he’d heard that analogy. “Yeah, exactly,” Alex said. “You thought you knew it, but you were only familiar with it.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[juicy-sentences]], [[skepticism]], [[scientific-method]], [[epistomelogical-challenge]] **Source** -- [[20250424114419 - B - Leviathan Falls]]