Looking up - 06 March 2020

Published: March 6, 2020, 9:54 a.m.

How do we know anything for sure? Some folk need proof, personal tangible proof, before believing in anything. Astronomy some would say isn't a true science, since astronomical observations are so remote and there is nothing tangible about it. Robbie Lees, a Masters student at the University of Cape Town, discusses some finer points of philosophy and people jumping out of balloons and crash landing on Earth.