From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Paranormal. Whatever. Call it what you will but we need   
   to study it.   
      
   Why?   
      
   Good question. And here's the good answer:   
      
   Arthur C. Clarke famously said:   
      
   "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   
      
   BUT DON'T STOP THERE!   
      
   It doesn't have to be tech. It could be a natural phenomenon that   
   we have yet to encounter, or a natural phenomenon that exposes a   
   mistake in our "Understanding" of nature, of "Science" and physics.   
      
   Look. We've got a lot wrong. We make a lot of assumptions that are   
   just plain wrong. There are things we believe we've figured out,   
   their secrets unlocked, when we haven't. And what is going to expose   
   our mistakes, reveal our gaps in knowledge is anything that does not   
   fit into our idea of how "Nature" works.   
      
   And, of course, any true skeptic would love, Love, LOVE to have   
   "Magic" or "Unicorns" or "Leprechauns" or ESP to turn out to be   
   real. But they don't have to be the case. It's still worth it.   
   Take "Oumuamua" for example. It never mattered WHAT is was, UFO   
   or newly discovered natural phenomenon, only that it wasn't working   
   the way our science, our understanding of the universe said it   
   should work.   
      
   It is a mystery.   
      
   And solving that mystery teaches us new things. It widens our   
   horizon.   
      
   The same is true for anything "Paranormal" aka supernatural.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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