Talk:Oort cloud and Kuiper belt are ad-hoc fantasies of astronomers (Talk.Origins)

Re: "Most of the objects found are hundreds of kilometers in diameter, while known comet nuclei are less then 20 km in diameter and most are less than 2 km."

Most of the objects found may be big but that doesn't mean that most of the objects there are that big - it only means we can't see the small ones yet.

Roy 22:01, 2 Apr 2005 (GMT)


 * Ahh, isn't faith in the unknown wonderful?! Let's call that the objects-of-the-gaps. Philip J. Rayment 15:04, 2 May 2006 (GMT)


 * Given the history of pronouncements on the non-existence of such objects, better to call it faith-in-the-gaps. The assumption being made is that if something would be beyond our current ability to detect it, it doesn't exist. This is absurd. Roy 13:58, 8 May 2006 (GMT)
 * Atheists make that same assumption every day. Seems pretty absurd to me.  Ungtss 14:50, 8 May 2006 (GMT)


 * Are you talking about stuff other than what's in the article?
 * So which is better? Faith in the apparent gaps, or faith in the unobserved small objects?
 * As far as this article is concerned, that assumption is not being made. The article has an answer specifically for the case where they do exist.
 * Philip J. Rayment 03:39, 9 May 2006 (GMT)
 * As far as this article is concerned, that assumption is not being made. The article has an answer specifically for the case where they do exist.
 * Philip J. Rayment 03:39, 9 May 2006 (GMT)
 * Philip J. Rayment 03:39, 9 May 2006 (GMT)