Why are you going so soft?

Having observed the sun go up and down reliably over my lifetime so far, I infer that it will keep doing so far quite a while, and that it has done so before I was born, too. Not much culture about it.

Every scientific measurement has elements of this.

And to be honest, we only learn about the present through a thick layer of interpretation and inference, too. The past and future aren't that special in that regard.

It becomes even more fun, when you add the finite propagation time of signals into the mix: here on earth we can never learn about the moon in the present, only how it was about 1s ago.