Prompt: Is astronomy evil?
From: I'm Nova
A/N: This is historically inaccurate, as I'm using the astronomical 'Axis of Evil' theory. I'm going to pretend Moriarty found it first, somehow. But Eduardo Rozo was the one who discovered it in real life, for those of you wondering.
Disclaimer: Moriarty does not belong to me.
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Beauty is a double edged sword.
Like how a beautiful woman once blackmailed the King of Bohemia for security, and another beautiful woman murdered three helpless children for their insurance, for instance. They look charming and are ensnaring; but once you fall, you're trapped.
I am not such a man as to fall for the charms of guileless women. Neither is my opponent, Holmes.
Stars, on the other hand, I have indeed developed an interest in, a passion, even. They are beauteous orbs burning in the night sky, but this is not why I am interested in them. I am interested in them as they present a chance for curiosity, an interest in things beyond the Earth; a passion for the unexplained.
But just as it has created knowledge, the cosmos have also created questions that Man cannot answer.
Such as why on Earth anything in it is difficult to measure.
With their limited knowledge and tools, many astronomers tried to work out on Earth that anything in the cosmos seemed to rely on what is being used for weighing them. All their results from different forms of measurements proved to be variating on a huge scale.
I have expounded on the problem at hand; and after many a thought, and half as much experimenting, concluded that there is a fault in which only two measurements could be relied on, and a third could not, as though the universe was attempting to confound us.
They named my proposition the 'Axis of Evil' for they claim ignorance to be a bigger sin than the seven sins, and they do not think it right the universe should snub the 'greatest' astronomers.
How close to the truth of my real nature these men are...and may they never know it.